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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
130A.-The importation into Hongkong through the Post Office of any lottery ticket or advertisement of any lottery, or of any letter, post card or circular concerning any lottery, is prohibited. The Postmaster General may seize all such lottery tickets and letters, post cards or circulars concerning a lottery and cause the same to be returned to the Post Office at which they were mailed.
130B.-The Postmaster General may seize all seditious publications and cause the same to be returned to the Post Office at which they were mailed.
LOCAL MONey Orders AND POSTAL NOTES
131.-The hours of business at the General Post Office, Hongkong, daily, excepting Saturdays, are from 10 a.m. to 4 p m.; Saturdays, 10a.m. to 1 p.m. On the working day next before the English and French contract mails for Europe leaving at noon, the Office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Money orders for the Straits, India and Europe are not issued before noon on days when the contract mail for Europe leaves at that hour. Postal notes, however, can be obtained.
132.-Single Money Orders are issued at the General Post Office, Hongkong, and at the British Post Office, Shanghai, at the current rates of exchange for any sum not ex- ceeding $400
133.-Money Orders are paid at the above-named offices and at the several British Postal Agencies in China.
134.-Applications for Money Orders must be made on the printed forms provided for the purpose at the Money Order Offices. The full name and address of both appli- cant and payee should always be given.
135.-Parties procuring Money Orders should examine them carefully to see that they are properly filled up and stamped.
136.-When a Money Order is presented for payment at the office upon which it is drawn, the Postmaster will use all proper means to assure himself that the applicant is the person named and intended in the advice, and upon payment of the order care must be taken to obtain the signature of the payee or of the person authorized by him to receive payment to the receipt on the face of the order.
137.-When a Money Order has been lost by either remitter or payee a duplicate thereof will be issued by the paying office on payment of a second commission; and when a remitter desires to correct any error in an order obtained by him such correc- tion may be made on payment of a second commission. Application for either of the above purposes should be made in writing to the Postmaster-General.
138.-The remitter of a local order may request at the time of issue or subsequently that the order be crossed like a cheque, thus " & Co.," in order that it may be paid only through a bank.
139.-If the payee is unable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark, to be witnessed in writing by some one known to the Postmaster but unconnected with the Post Office. The witness should sign his name with his address in the presence of the Postmaster, and the latter will then certify the payment by adding his own initials. In no case should the Postmaster act as witness himself. It is not necessary that the witness should be personally acquainted with the payee.
140.-After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, provided the required information has been given by the party who presented it, the Department will not hold itself liable to any further claini.
141.-The Commission to be charged on the issue of Money Orders payable in Hongkong and the Agencies in China will be one cent per dollar, or fraction of a dollar, with a minimum charge of five cents.
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