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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS
an agent of the Post Ofl5ce, and a receipt obtained
for it ; and it should on no account be dropped into
a letter box.
9. Letters or packets containing coin, -watcbes, or
jewellery cannot be acceptedo for registration for any-
foreign or colonial country in the General Postal
Union ; and if erroneously registered they are re-
turned to the senders.
10. Letters or packets containing coin for any of
the British Colonies not in the General Postal Union
can be registered, and if they are posted without
being registered, they are treated in the same manner
as inland letters under similar circumstances.
IL The transmission of letters containing gold or
silver money, jewels, or precious articles, or any thing
liable to Customs duties, through the post to any
countrj' of the General Postal Union is forbidden.
The laws of Costa-Rica also forbid the transmis-
sion by the post within that country of letters or
other packets containing coin, watches, jewellery,
or other articles of value which are liable to Customs
duties ; and any such packets, if forwarded, are liable
to confiscation. Packets containing jewellery or
other articles of value for the Cape of Good Hope,
or Queensland, are liable to be detained and
not delivered to the addresses until the Customs
duties have been paid. And letters or packets con-
taining jewellery (which is liable to Customs duties)
sent through the post to Victoria (Australia) are
liable, with their contents, to be forfeited.
(10.) Re-direction.
1. Letters, &c., sent to or received from a country of
the General Postal Union, and afterwards re-directed
to any place in the United Kingdom, or to another
country within the Union, are not liable to any
additional charge, nor, if registered, to an additional
fee for registration ; such, however, as have been in
the first instance addressed to a place in the country
where they were posted, are chargeable on re-direc-
tion with the same postage, less the sum prepaid,
which would have been charged had they been
addressed in the first instance to the place of their
ultimate delivery, but, if registered, without addi-
tional fee.
2. Letters, &c., addressed from one part of the
United Kingdom to another, and then re-directed to
a country not in the Postal Union, are liable to an
additional Colonial or Foreign rate, and, if registered,
to an additional fee for registration.
3. Letters, &c., received here from a country not
in the Postal Union, and re-directed to another
country not in the Postal Union, are liable to an
additional Colonial or Foreign rate, and, if registered,
to an additional fee: if re-directed to some place
within the United Kingdom, they are liable to an
additional inland rate ; and, if re-directed to any
country of the Postal Union, they are liable to the
rate of that country. In the two latter cases letters,
if registered, are not liable to any additional fee.
4. Letters, &c., received from any country of the
Postal Union, and re-directed to a country not in the
Postal Union, are liable to an additional Colonial or
Foreign rate, and, if registered, to an additional fee.
MONEY ORDERS.
1. When applying for Money Orders the public
should use the prepared printed "Application Forms,"
which are supplied gratuitously at all Money Order
Offices, viz : —
§ 1. Application for Inland Orders.
§ 2. Application for Foreign and Colonial Orders.
2. Commission. — The coaamission on Inland Money
Orders is : —
For sums under IDs.,
Of lOs. and under £2,
" Je2, " 3,
" 3, » 4,
" *, " 5,
" 5, " 6,
" 6, " 7,
" 7, " 8,
" 8, " 9,
" 9, " 10,
£10 Orders,
- 2d.
- 3d.
- 4d.
- 6d.
- 6d.
- 7d.
- 8d.
- 9d.
- lOd.
- lid.
- Is.
3. No order is allowed to contain a fractional
part of a penny.
4. Particulars Required. — 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 remitter and the payee, together
with the remitter's address. In the case of Foreign
Orders the fall 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. The remitter is at liberty to desire at the
time of issue that the order be crossed like a
cheque, and be made payable only through a Bank
in which case it is left to his option to give or
withhold the name of the payee. The designation
of the Bank need not be furnished. Foreign and
Colonial Money Orders do not come under this
exception.
§ 2. If the remitter or payee be a peer or a bishop,
his ordinary title is sufficient.
§ 3. The usual designation of a firm is sufiicient,
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, even though its payment was not
originally so restricted ; and when the order is thus
presented the question put on the presentation of an
ordinary Money Order is dispensed with.
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 in paragraph 15
of these regulations.
8. Money Orders do not require a receipt stamp.
9. When 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.