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MONEY ORDERS.

MONEY ORDERS.
Money Ordera are issued at the Rend Office, IGngston, and at the several Paro<'hial
'J'reasuries in the chit>f town of each parish. Applications for money ordE"rll addressed
1 either to the Postmnst.er for Jnmaiu.<J. or to a Parochial Tt't'asurC'r are free of poRtage~
(The rtlf,ristrntion fee of 2d. rnust, bo;vcver, be prepaid.)
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The commissions on monl'l' orders drAwn on t.he Unit.ed Kingdom, Panama, Cost4.
T!ica :tnd the Cnyr.n!ln lshmds are a3 under:-

For any sum uot eJ~Ceedin~t .£2 Os. 9<1.
AIJ(lve £2 and nu~ exceed.iu11: 5 1 G
Above 5 " " ; 2 3
Abo1c 7 " " 10 a 0
and 5d. for ea~h addit.ional .Cl or fraNionul part thereof.
Tb<> comroissious on money orders dra1111 on tbe United States of Amerioo, Oanl\d&~
Canal Zone and Philippine islahdl; are as under:-
For nny su ru not exccediug £2 Os. 9d.
For any sum over £2 and not e.~ceeding £5 I)
" s " " i 2 a
" 7 " " 10 3 0
and 3d. for each udditional £1 or fractiom\1 part of that, lltUount.
The commi..<lsioo.'l ou ruoney orders drawn oo B~rbtldo~, 'lritish Guitlaa, the Wind-
ward Islands, the L~cward lsll\llds, British Honduras, Bermudn, 'rurks Islands rwd
Trinidad :tre o.s under:-
l<'or uu.v surn not exueetlin~ Os. (id,
Above £2 and not exceetli.ng .i 1 0
Above o 7 ()
Ahon 7 " " lO :.? 0
:~nd IJd. for t"aoh udditional .t:a or fraction11J prtri thereof.
The limit amount for money orders drawn on Unit-ed Kinll,'dom, P!lnama, Costa Rica,
Barbudos, Rrit.ish Guiana, the Windward Is!rmds. th~ Leowarrl Island.;;, Briti&b Hondums,
Bermuda, Turh Ishnds, Trinidad and Cnym11.n Islands is £m, nnd on United Stales
of An.1ericn, Canada., CMnl Z{lne ami Philippine Islnnds, !:'20 IOs. Sd. or 5100.
No application crut be cntert.rlinP.d for compensation for alleged injury from the non-
pn.yment of f\ money order at. the CKpeetcd time. When n. montw order is applied for
it must be on the clear nnderstantling that no such daim wiU be u.llowetl, and that tht-
Post OliiC'e is not, liable, under any circumstances, to more than one payment of a
money 'Jrder, P,VI'll when, notwithstanding the precautions that are taken, the order
has been paid to a person not ent.itleu to receive the monev. ne-payment to the remit-
ter of a noouey ordet' cannot be made lllltil the chief office of the paying country h~
been commuuicate<.l wi.lh; 1\nd applic~lions for re-paymeut should be accompaitied by
a sum equal to the 11riginat oommission ou the order.
A Through ~looey Order E.xcha.nge ll.lso e~ist.s between Jrunaica and certain British
colonies and fort?ign countries via the United Kiop;dom. Such through money orders
are 8Ubier.t on pn.yruent to a deduction of two-pence for euch £1 with a mio.imum
charge of four-pence. The full name aud nddres.~ of thll payee or a through money
order must be given to enable the Chief Money Orrler Office, London, to forward to tb&
payee a money order Cor the net amount payable, the money order issued to tbe
remitter being only of value as a rect>ipt f(lr the amount paid and should bo retained
by th,e remitt.er.