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MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS.

MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS.

1.-On the 1st of October next, and thenceforward, Money Orders will be issued at tnis Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghae and Yokohama on all the Money Orde: 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.... Above £2 and not exceeding

5 7

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£2....

7.

10.....

2.- No Money Order to include a fractional part of a Penny.

.18 cents.

.36

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.54

..72

8.-Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghae, and Yoku- hama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange of the day of the receipt of the advices of such Money Orders at the places named.

4.-Alphabetical List of over 3,700 Money Order Offices in the United Kingdon, shewing the Counties in which they are situated, are hung up for public reference at this Office, and also a Shanghae and Yokohama.

5.-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Cl atian 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 “ Caron Co.,” is inadmissible.

6.-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 the Cheques are commonly crossed when they are intended to be paid though a Bank.

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

8.-The signature of the Payee of a Money Order to be affixed to the Order in the place provided for the purpose. If the Payeo 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 presence of the Officer who pays the Order.

9. Should the Payee of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the Country in which the Order was issued, et 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.

10. 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.

11.-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