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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
S. No order is allowed to contain a fractional
part of a penny.
4. Particulars Required. — No Money Order can
be issue! unless the applicant furnish iu full the
surname and at least the initial of one Christian
name, both of the remitter and the payee, together
with the remitter's address. In the case of Colonial
and Foreign Orders the full address of the payee must
be given ; and if the order be payable to a native
in British India the tribe or caste, and the father's
name, must also be furnished.
Exceptions.
§ 1. When the remitter directs at the time of issue
(which he is at liberty to do) that the order by
being crossed like a cheque be made payable only
through a Bank, it is left to his option to give or
withhold the name of the payee.
§ 2. If the remitter or payee be a peer or a bishop,
his oidinary title is sufficient.
§ 3. The usual designation of a firm is sufficient,
except in the case of a company trading under a
title which does not consist of the name of the per-
sons composing it, as the " Carron Company."
5. The holder of a Money Order is always at
liberty to direct, by crossing it, that the order be
paid through a bank., though its payment was not
originally so restricted; and when the order is thus
presented for payment no question is asked as to the
remitter's name.
6. When application is made for a Money Order
payable in London, or at any other town where
there is more than one Money Order Office, the
remitter should say at which of such offices he
wishes it to be paid, otherwise the order can be
cashed only at the Head Office.
7. Orders cannot he Cancelled. — An order once
issued cannot be cancelled; and should repayment
or transfer to a different office be required, the
remitter or payee must apply to the paying Post-
master according to the directions printed on the
back of the order.
8. Money Orders do not require a receipt stamp.
9. Wheu an Order is paid through a bank it is
sufficient that it be receipted, without regard to any
discrepancy between the signature and the name in
the advice, and that it be crossed with the name of
the bank, and presented by some person known to
be in the employment of that bank.
10. If the ordVr be not paid before the end of the
twelfth calendar month after that in which it was
issued (for instance, if issued in January and not paid
before the end of nest January), all claim to the
money is lost.
11. No application can be entertained for compen-
sation for alleged injury from the non-payment of a
Bloney Order at the expected time.
12. After once paying a Bloney Order, by whom-
soever presented, the Office is not liable to any
further claim.
13. To guard against any person, even if he
obtain possession of a Money Order, fraudulently
getting it cashed, the remitter is recommended; —
§ 1. When he is well known to the payee, to
sign the let'er enclosing the order with his initials
only.
§ 2. When this is not the case, either to make
the order payable ten days after dale, or to register
the letter enclosing if. or to make the order payable
through a bank by crossing it like an ordinary
cheque.
§ 3. When it is not considered expedient to
adopt either of these courses, to said the remitter's
name (without a knowledge of which payment cannot
be obtained) in a separate letter from that contain-
ing the Money Order; although this latter precaution
is much less effective thiin either of the others.
14. Payment of an order cannot be demanded on
the same day as that on which the order was issued.
15. In case of the miscarriage or loss of an
inland Money Order, a duplicate is granted oa
a written application (with the necessary particulars,
and inclosing the amount of a second commission
in postage stamps) to the Comptroller of the
Money Order Office in England, and to the account-
ants in Scotland, or Ireland, as the case may be,
where the original order was issued ; and if it
be desired to stop payment of an inland order,
application must be made at the office where the
order is payable, and a second commission must
be paid. If alteration in the name of the payee
or remitter of an inland Bloney Order should
be required, application accompanied by the pay-
ment of a second commission, must be made by
the remitter to the Postmaster of the office at which
the order was issued. Should transfer of payment of
an inland order from one office to another in the
United Kingdom, or repayment of the amount of an
order, be required, an application inclosing the order
must be made to the Postmaster at whose office the
order is payable ; who will transmit in exchange a
new order payable at the place desired, but for a
less sum than the original order by the amount of
the second commission charged for the reissue.
Proper printed forms for making application in all
these cases may be obtained at any Money Order
Office. Whenever, on complaint being made, it is
found that the necessity for an application, entailing
the payment of a fresh commission, is attributable
to the Post Office, the charge will be remitted to
the applicant and imposed on the officer in fault.
16. A Postmaster is required to give information
how to apply for a duplicate order, &c, and must
furnish the prescribed form of application.. If
payment of an order be refused, in consequence of
the reply to the question respecting the remitter, or
the signature on the order not corresponding with
the entries on the advice, the applicant for payment
should communicate with the remitter, and request
him to apply personally to the issuing Postmaster.
17. No Letter Canier, Rural Messenger, or other
Servant of the Post Office is bound to procure a
Bloney Order for any person, or to obtain payment
for one ; but such services are not forbidden.
18. Money Orders a e issued in the United King-
dom on the following colonies, British agencies, and
Foreign cuuntries* : — Alexandria, Berbice (New
Amsterdam), Belgium, Belize (British Honduras),
British Columbia, Cape of Good Hope, Canada,
Ceylon (Colombo), Constantinople, Coquimbo, Dem-
erara (Georgetown), Denmark, Falkland Islands,
France (Paris enly), the German Empire, Gibraltar.
Gold Coast, Heligoland, Holland, Hong Kong, India,
Italy, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, New Brunswick,
* "When a whole country is named, Money Orders may
be drawn, as a rule, on any important town in that
country, as also on the many smaller towns, of which
complete lists are kept at every Money Order Ofiice.