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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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charges are, by special foot messenger, fid. per
double mile, that is, a mile out and a mile back ; by
cab, fly, or horse express, Is. per double mile.
11. Messages written on the proper forms may
be enclosed in envelopes addressed " Telegraph
Office," and deposited in wall or pillar boxes, or in
the letter boxes of ordinary receiving offices, or sub
post offices. Telegrams so deposited will be sent on
to the nearest Postal Telegraph Office by the first
ordinary postal collection from the letter-bos in which
they are deposited, and will be sent on by wire from
that nearest Postal Telegraph Office as soon as pos-
sible after they reach it, and will be delivered to the
addressee free of extra charge, provided the proper
charge for the number of words contained in them,
and for porterage when they have to be delivered
beyond the limits of ihe free delivery, have been
prepaid by means of postage stamps affixed to the
message forms.
12. Messages so deposited, but insufficiently pro-
paid, will also be sent on in like manner, the
difference of charge being obtained from the addres-
see on delivery ; but messages so deposited without
any prepayment whatever will be placed in a cover,
which will be directed to the addressee, and sent
forward to him by post as an ordinary unpaid letter.
13. Messages written on the proper forms, and
prepaid by meaus of postage stamps affixed to the
forms, may be handed to rural post messengers,
who are proceeding to Postal Telegraph Offices, for
transmission therefrom.
14. Messages for the Continent, India, or America,
■will also be collected at and delivered from the Postal
Telegraph Offices throughout the United Kingdom,
at the rates and under the regulations hitherto
charged and maintained by the Telegraph Com-
panies engaged in the transmission and delivery of
such messages.
15. Full information "with respect to charges and
regulations for the transmission of messages by tele-
graph may be obtained at all Postal Telegraph Offices.
MONEY OEDERS.
1. Application Fonns. — The public are recom-
mended, when applying for Money Orders, to use
printed " Application Forms," which save time, and
afford greater security than verbal messages against
mistakes. These f. .rms are supplied gratuitously at
all Money Order Offices.
2. Commission. — The commission on inland Money
Orders is as follows: — On sums not exceeding £2,
threepence; above £2 and not exceeding £5, six-
pence; above £5 and not exceeding £7, ninepence ;
above £~ and not exceeding £10, one shilling.
3. No order is allowed to contain a fractional part
of a penny.
4. Particulars Required. — With (he subjoined ex-
ceptions, no Money Order can be issued unless the
applicant furnish, in full, the surname and at least
the initial of one Christian name, both of the re-
mitter (the person who sends the order) and the
payee (the person to whom the money is to be paid),
together with the remitter's address: —
§ 1. If the remitter or payee be a peer or a bishop,
his ordinary title is sufficient ; and the usual desig-
nation of a firm is sufficient, except in the case of a
company trading under a title which does not con-
sist of the persons composing it, as the " Carron
Company."
§ 2. When the remitter notifies that the order is
to be paid through a bank, it is left to his option to
give or withhold the name of the payee.
5. 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 at ihe Head
Office alone.
6. Orders cannot be Cancelled. — An order once
issued cannot be cancelled ; and should repayment
or transfer to a different office or alteration of name
be required, the remitter must apply to the paying-
Postmaster according to the directions printed on the
back of the order.
7. The holder of a Money Order is always at liberty
to direct, by crossing it, that the order be paid
through a bank, even though its payment was not
originally so restricted ; and when the order is thus
crossed, the question put on the presentation of au
ordinary Money Order is dispensed with.
8. Money Orders do not require a receipt stamp.
9. Lapsed and Void Orders. — Payment of au
order, issued and payable in the United Kingdom,
must be obtained before the end of the second calen-
dar month after that in which it was issued (for
instance, if issued in January it must be paid before
the end of March), otherwise the order becomes
lapsed, and a new order will be necessary, for which
a second commission will be charged. The period for
payment of orders issued in the United Kingdom and
payable in any colony authorized to transact Money-
Order business, including Gibraltar and Malta, is six
months, and orders granted at those places on the
United Kingdom are also payable during six months
after that in which they were issued. Any person
presenting a lapsed order will be furnished with a
copy of a printed notice headed " Lap-ed Money-
Orders," containing directions how to proceed. If
the order 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 next January), all claim to the money will
be lost.
10. No application can be entertained for compen-
sation for alleged injury from the nun-payment of a
Money Order at the expected time ; and after once
paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, the
Office is not liable to any further claim.
11. Under no circumstances can payment of an
order be demanded on the day of issue.
1 2. Duplicate, Orders, Transfers, Repayments,
Alltration of Name, cfc. — In case of the miscarriage
or loss of an inland Money Order, a duplicate is
granted on a written application (with the necessary
paiticulars, and inclosing the amount of a second
commission, in postage stamps) to the Comptroller of
tlie Metropolitan Money Order Office, of that part of
the United Kingdom where the original order was
issued ; and if it be desired to stop payment of an
inland order, a similar application, with a like ii:clo-
sure of postage stamps, must be made to the Comp-
troller of the Metropolitan Money Order Office of
that part of the United Kingdom where the oider is
payable. If alteration in the name of the payee or
remitter of an inland Money Order should be re-
quired, application must be made by the remitter to
the Postmaster of the office at which the order was
issued, and a second commission must be paid.
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