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RATES OF POSTAGE.

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 think proper to allow it.

XVI.—After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, the paying office will not be liable to any further claim. If a wrong payinent, 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.

XVIV.-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 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 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 :—

On Orders not exceeding $25.......... Above $25 and not exceeding $50.

15 cents. 30

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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.