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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
be effected by any person not over the age of 65 years
and not under the age of 14 years; or, if the amount
does not exceed £5, not under the age of 8 year?.
The Postmaster- General is also empowered under the
same Act to grant immediate or deferred annuities
for any amount not less than £1 or more than £100
to any person not under the age of five years.
The persons whose lives are insured or to whom
annuities are granted by the Postmaster-General,
have direct Government security for the payment of
the money at the proper time.
The Post Office of Glasgow receives proposals
for the insurance of lives and the purchase of
annuities ; and forms of proposal, with full instruc-
tions for filling up and delivering the same, as well
as every other necessary information, may be obtained
on application.
POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
1 . The charge for telegrams throughout the United
Kingdom is Is. for the first 20 words, and 3d. for
every additional five words, or patt of five words;
the names and addresses of the sender and receiver are
not counted.
2. The charges for Press telegrams are Is. for
every 100 words, or portion of 100 words, handed
in between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 a.m., and Is.
for every 75 words, or portion of 75 words, handed in
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 r.M., with an
additional charge of 2d. per 100, or 2d. per 75 words,
as the case may be, for every additional address.
3. Postage stamps are used for the payment of
telegrams, and the public are required to affix the
stamps to the message forms just as they are required
to affix them to letters.
4. Receipts for the charges on telegrams can be
obtained at a cost of 2d. each. .
5. The inland telegram forms are of two kinds,
namely, the " A J. " form, embossed with a stamp of
the value of Is., and the '' A" form (given gratis),
with no stamp. The " A 1 forms" may be purchased
singly. They may also be had in hooks of 20 forms,
interleaved, and with a sheet of carbonic paper, price
20s. 2d. per book.
6. When the terminal office, i.e., the office situated
nearest to the address, is a Head Post Office, the
amount paid for transmission covers the cost of de-
livery within one mile, or within the town postal
delivery of that office when the delivery extends more
than a mile. But when it is not a Head Post Office,
the message is delivered free within a limit of
one mile only.
7. When the addressee resides beyond the free
delivery, porterage is charged at the rate of 6d. per
mile, or part thereof, provided the whole distance
does not exceed three miles; but the charge is
calculated from the boundary of the district within
which no porterage is levied. For instance, if the
addressee's residence is a mile and a quarter from
the terminal office, and also beyond the town postal
delivery, the charge for porterage would be 6d.; if the
distance is above two miles and under three, Is.
8. If the addressee resides at a greater distance
than three miles from the terminal office, porterage
is charged for delivery by mounted messenger at the
rate of Is. per mile, except in Ireland, where the
charge usually is 8d. per mile. The charge being
reckoned from the Office door.
9. If the sender requires his telegram to be fo
warded by post or by train from the terminal offic
he must write the words "by post" or ''by train
at the end of the address, and in the latter case 1:
must pay the cost or deposit Is. if the exact cost i|
not known.
10. A deposit of 5s. is required upon all telegram
addressed to persons on board ship (unless the shl
be lying along side a wharf, jetty, or pier) to cov.'
any expense incurred in their delivery; any surpl;
is refunded in the course of a few days.
11. An embossed stamp which has been removr
from a spoiled and unused " A 1 " form will 1
accepted in payment of a telegram ; but mutilate
or defaced stamps will not.
12. The sender should avoid all words not strict:
necessary in his address. He is not obliged to ha<3
his address telegraphed, but he should furnish it i
enable the Department to communicate with him, >
necessary. When the address is not to be telegrapher
it should be written at the foot or on the back
the form.
13. Telegrams can be repeated at the request I
the sender, if he desires to adopt this security asain.
risk of error, by being signalled back from eac
office at which they are received to the office froi
which they are forwarded. No copy of the telegrai
is, in such case, given to the sender. The charg
for repetition is one half the ordinary tariff; fractioi
of threepence being reckoned as twopence.
14. The cost of a reply not exceeding forty wore
in length may be prepaid ; and a reply form will the
be delivered to the addressee, who will be at libert
to send his reply, from any Telegraph Office, at an
time within two months after the date of the origins
telegram. If the form be not used application for th
return of the money, accompanied by the form, ma
be made by the holder to the secretary, General Pos
Office, London. A reply form, however, need nc
necessarily be used for the reply to a message, but ma
be used for the purpose of prepaying a message con
taining the same number of words as that named on it
15. Telegrams re-transmitted to a second addres
by wire or pneumatic tube are liable to additions
charge at the ordinary Inland rate. No charge i
made for the second service, if the re-direction doe
not involve any use of the wires or tubes. In additioi
to the amount chargeable on each re-transmittei
telegram, a fee of £1 Is. per annum is charged fo
the registration of special instructions as to the re
direction of telegrams after office hours. Kemoval
are registered, when this is specially requested, for :
period of one month ; and no charge is made for tin
registration.
16. Persons who wish to avoid sending to a tele-
graph office, may, without additional charge, post ;
telegram form inclosed in an envelope, aeldressed " Tele-
gram Immediate," in a wall or pillar box, or in thi
letter-box of a Receiving Office or Sub-Post Office
Telegrams so posted are sent on by the next collec-
tion to the nearest Telegraph Office, are thence
transmitted by wire, and are delivered free of extrs
charge, provided the proper amounts for the number
of words contained in them, and for porterage when
they have to be delivered beyond the limits of the
free delivery, have been prepaid. The period oi
arrival at the Telegraph Office is .regarded as the
time of receipt from the public.
17. Telegrams may also be posted not enclosed ic