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108 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
not exceeding £75, Is. 9d. ; exceeding £75 and not exceeding £100, 2s. 3d. and
exceeding £100 and not exceeding £200, 2s. 9d.
The amount of Government Stocks which any one person can buy in a year
must not exceed £200, and the whole amount which he can hold in such
Stocks must not exceed £500.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES.
Life insurance for any amount not less than £5 or more than £100 may 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 years.
Immediate or Deferred Annuities are granted for any amount not less than
£1 or more than £100 to any person not under the age of 5 years. The
persons whose lives are insured, or to whom Annuities are granted by the Post-
master-General, have direct Government security for the payment of the
money at the proper time.
Forms of proposal for the insurance of lives and the purchase of Annuities,
and information as to filling them up, may be obtained at any Post Office.
Post-Office Telegraphs.
TARIFF (INLAND).
The charge for Telegrams throughout the United Kingdom is 6d for the
first 12 words, and Jd. for each additional word. Addresses are charged for.
Telegrams may be repeated at the request of the sender, if he desires to
adopt this extra security against risk of error, by being signalled back from
each office at which they are received to the office from which they are for-
warded. The charge for repetition is one half the ordinary tariff ; a fraction
of a halfpenny being reckoned as a halfpenny.
The cost of a reply not exceeding forty-eight words may be prepaid.
Copies of a Telegram, directed to more than one firm or person in the same
free delivery will be delivered separately at an additional charge of twopence
per copy. Each London Postal District is regarded for this purpose as form-
ing a separate Delivery.
Figures are counted at the rate of five figures to a word. Fractions are
counted according to the number of figures employed, one figure being counted
for the mark of division, thus — % counts as one word, and 109^ as two.
PORTERAGE.
All Telegrams for delivery within three miles will be delivered free. For
distances beyond three miles the chai-ge will be M. per mile, reckoned from
the office of delivery.
JTRUNK LINE TELEPHONES.
The Aberdeen Post Office is now in direct Telephonic Communication with
all the important towns in the United Kingdom, during such hours as they
are open for Telegraph business, and also at certain other towns during the
hours they are closed for Telegraph business. A full list of towns and
charges can be seen at the Head Office in Market Street.
REGISTERED ADDRESSES.
Any person may register an abbreviated or arbitrary address on payment
of a -fee of £1 Is. a year, dating from the day of registration. The address
must consist of not less than two words, one of which is to be the town or
place of delivery.