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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND AUGUST, 1868.
7.-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.
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 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.
9. 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.
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 case will be deducted from the amount of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be presented, with the application for a new Order.
12. 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. 13.-Repayment whether of an original, or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the remitter until it has been ascertained, that the advice has been cancelled at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn.
14.-Payment of an Order must be obtained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn; for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Order will become lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second Commission, to be deducted from the amount of the Order, will be charged) will become
necessary.
15.-If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn, for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar circumstances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn think proper to allow it. 16.-After once paying a Money Order by whomsoever presented, the paying Office will not be liable
to any further claim.
If a wrong payment, however, be made owing to negligence on the part
of any Officer of the Post Office, the Postmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negligence occurs will, if he see fit, require the Officer in fault to make good the loss. 17.-No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received.
18.-Additional Rules for greater security against fraud, and for the better working of the system
generally will be made as occasion may require.
19.-Should it appear that Money Orders are used by mercantile men, or others, either in the United Kingdom or at Hongkong, Shanghae or Yokohama, for the transmission of large sums of money, the British or Colonial Post Office, as the case may be, will consider the propriety 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.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1868.
No. 96.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Circular Despatch from His Grace The Secretary of State for the Colonies, trans- mitting Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 14th of May, 1868, enforcing neutrality upon British Subjects during hostilities in Japan, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th August, 1868.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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