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RATES OF POSTAGE.

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

I-On the 1st of October next, and thenceforward, Money Orders will be issued at this office, and at the agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama, on all the Money Order-offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange current for each mail, and charged with com- mission according to the following scale, viz:-

For sums not exceeding £2....

Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5..

29

£5 £7

"7

"

£ 7.... £10..

II.-No Money Order to include a fractional part of a penny.

Cents. .12

•

•

.24

.42

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III-Orders drawn in the United Kingdon upon Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.

IV.-Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Money Order-offices in the United Kingdom, shewing the counties in which they are situated, are hung up for public reference at this office, and also at Shanghai and Yokohama,

V.-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name, both of the remitter and the payee; if the remitter or payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his ordinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as Baring Brothers" will suffice, but the mere term Messrs. such as "Messrs. Rivington," or the name of a Company trading under a title which does not consist of the names of the persons composing it, such as "Carron Co.," is inadmissible.

VI. The remitter on stating that the Order is to be paid only through a Bank, to have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the payee, in such case, the Order will be crossed in the same way that Cheques are commouly crossed when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.

VII.-When an Order is presented through a Bank, a receipt by any person will be sufficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Bank, and be presented by some person known to be in the employ of such Bank.

VIII.-The signature of the payee of a Money Order to be affixed on the Order in the place provided for the purpose. If the payee be unable to write, he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of a witness, who must sign his name, with his address in the presence of the officer who pays the order.

IX.-Should the payee of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the country in which the Order was issued, at some other office than that in which the Order was originally drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Postmaster of the office in which it was drawn. In such case a new Order will be issued, the commission chargeable upon which will be deducted from the amount of the new Order.

X.--In the event of a Money Order miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will be granted on a written application from the payee, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an additional commission) to the office where the original Order was payable.

XI.-On the receipt of a similar application, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed Order. The additional commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be presented with the application for a new Order.

XII. But when it is desired that any error in the name of the remitter or payee should be corrected, or that the amount of a Money Order should be repaid to the remitter, or that a lapsed Order should be renewed for payment in the country in which the Order was originally drawn, 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.

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