MONEY ORDERS.
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The Postmaster at San Francisco has given notice that letters despatched from this Colony (whether through the Post-office, or as consignees' letters) by the United States Mail Packets, will not be forwarded to any places not within the United States unless the proper Postage from America to such places be prepaid in American Postage Stamps, but will be returned to this Office.
Such letters should either be prepaid in both Hongkong and American Stamps as above, or posted to an Agent in the United States.
This notice chiefly applies to the following places, the American rates of Postage to which are as follows:
Letters. Newspapers.
Cents.
Books.
Honolulu.....
Brazil
Peru, Chili, &c...
Cents.
6 per
per oz.
2
Cents. 4 per 4 oz.
..15 22
""
OZ.
Oz.
4
10 per 4 oz.
""
Many boxes of letters are received at the Post-office not sealed, that is to say, the box is fastened with sealing wax, but there is no impression of a seal.
The attention of boxholders is called to the necessity of carefully sealing such boxes with some recognisable seal, and of sending a chit-book or receipt with them. The omission of the latter precaution leaves a doubt as to whether the contents of the box ever reached the Post-office; the omission of the former, as to whether part of them might not have been abstracted for the sake of the Postage Stamps.
It is not generally possible to count the letters sent in sealed boxes (except where there are only three or four) and therefore the Post-office receipt to such an entry as, "47 for London, 15 for Calcutta, 3 for Penang, 5 for Singapore," must be taken to mean no more than what is stated, viz., that one box was duly received.
As some misapprehension exists regarding the transmission of Packets of Patterns and Samples through the Post, it is hereby notified that the privilege of sending such articles through the Post at the rates of postage applicable to them is restricted to bona 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.
MONEY ORDERS.
I.-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 commission according to the following scale, viz:-
For sums not exceeding £ 2. Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5..
£5 £7
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£7. £10.....
...18 cents. .36 39
54
72
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II.-No Money Order to include a fractional part of a penny. III.-Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange of the day of the receipt of the advices of such Orders at the places named.
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 east, 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
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