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office will not be liable to any further claim. If a wrong payment, however, be made, owing to negligence on the part of any officer of the Post-office, the Postmaster- General of the country or colony in which the negligence occurs will, if he see fit, require the officer in fault to make good the loss.
XVII. No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received. XVIII. Additional rules for greater security against fraud, and for the better working of the system generally, will be made as occasion may require.
XIX.-Should it appear that Money Orders are used by mercantile men, or others, either in the United Kingdom or at Hongkong, Shanghai, or Yokohama, for the transmission of large sums of money, the British or Colonial Post-office, as the case may be, will consider the propriety of increasing the commission, and will exercise the power of wholly suspending for a time the issue of Money Orders.
By Command,
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General. General Post-office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
1. With reference to the Notification of the 22nd ultimo, it is hereby further noticed by direction of His Excellency the Governor, that on and after Monday, the 2nd November next, Money Orders will be granted at this office on the Posi-offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and in like manner Money Orders will be granted at Shanghai and Yokohama upon this office, for sums not exceeding Fifty Dollars, at the ruling rates for dollars, charged with the following rates of commission, viz. :-
Ou Orders not exceeding $25..
...15 cents. 30 J+
Above $25 and not exceeding $50.......
2.-The Money Orders will in each case be drawn in Dollars and Cents.
3. All payments for Money Orders, whether by the Public to the Post-office, or
by the Post-office to the Public, will be made in Current Dollars.
4. The stipulations contained in the Notification of the 22nd August last, so far as they are applicable, will be enforced in conducting the local Money Order system. between Hongkong and Shanghai and Yokohama.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General.
General Post-office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1868.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information, that henceforward Money Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange of the day of the receipt of the advices of such Orders at the places named, instead of, as hitherto, at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.--(In lieu in Article III.)
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster-General. General Post-office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1870.