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RATES OF POSTAGE.
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 propriéty 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.
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 Order not exceeding $25..
15 cents.
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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 1868, so far as they are applicable, will be enforced in conducting the local Money Order system between Hongkong and Shanghai and Yokohama.
As some misapprehension exists regarding the transmission of Packets of Patterns and Samples through the Post, it is hereby notified for general information, that the privilege of sending such articles through the Post at the rates of postage applicable to them is restricted to boná fide Trade Patterns or Samples of Merchandize. Goods sent for sale, or in execution of an order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private individual to another which are not actually patterns or samples, are not admissible.
It is hereby notified that arrangements have been concluded under which correspondence addressed to Austria, and the several States of the Continent, may henceforward be transmitted by means of the British Mail Packets between this Office and the Austrian Post-offices at Trieste and Alexandria at the following Rates of Postage, viz. :—
Addressed to
For Letters.
Austria, Germany, and Turkey. Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Mol-
davia, Wallachia, and Servia.
Norway, Sweden, and Russia..
Addressed to
22 cents per each half ounce.
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For Newspapers and Prices Current.
Austria, Germany, Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, Moldavia,} 4 cents each.
Wallachia, and Servia...
Addressed to
Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia.
For Book Packets and Packets of Patterns.
Austria, Germany, and Turkey... Belgium, Switzerland, and Austrian Provinces........12 Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia.....14
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....10 cents for each four ounces.
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