MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS.
case will be deducted from the aount of the new Order. presented with the application for a new Order.
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Lapsed Orders must be
12.—But when it is desi ed that any error in the name of the Remitte or Payee should be corrected, or that the amount of a Money Order should be repaid to the Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order shoull be renewed for payment in the Country in which the Order was originally drewn, application must be made to the Chief Money Order Office of such Country. This application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it have reference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the Commission will be deducted from the amount of the New Order.
13.-Repayment, whether of an original, or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the Remitter until it has been ascertained that the advice has been can- celled at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn.
14.--Payment of an Order must be obtained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn; for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Order will become lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second Commission, to be deducted from the amount of the Order, will be charged) will become necessary.
15.-If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after. that in which it was drawn,-for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar circumstances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn thinks proper to allow it.
16-After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, the paying 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 made good the loss.
17.-No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received. 18.-Additional Rules for greater security against fraud, and for better working of the system generally, will be made as occasion may require.
19.-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 trans- mission 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,
General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
Postmaster General.
1. With reference to the Notification of the 22nd ultimo, it is hereby further notified 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 Post Offices t Shanghae and Yokohama, and in like manner Money Orders will be granted at Shang- hae 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 :—
On Orders not exceeding $25,..... Above $25 and not exceeding $50,
.15 cents. ..80
2.-The Money Orders will in such 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 Shanghae and Yokohama.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1868.
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