Page 53 - Jamaica PO Guide 1928

~IONEY ORDEHS 47

MONEY ORDERS.

:Money Orders arc issued at the Head Office, Kingston, and nl the se,·eral ParochiaL
Treasuries in the chief town of each parish. Applications for money orders addressed
to the Postmaster for Jamaica or to u Parochial Treasurer arc free of postage.
(The registration fee of 2d lllU~t. however, be prepaid.)
The commissions on rnouey orders drnwn on the United l<ingdom, Pnomna, Costa.
Il.icn and the Cayman Islands arc as under:-
]?or any sum not c~cceding £2 Os. 9d.
Above £2 and not exceeding 5 1 6
Above 5 7 2 3
Above 7 10 3 0
and 5d. for each additional £1 or fractional part thereof.
'l'he commis$ions on money orders drnwn on the United States of America, Canada,
Canal ZoneaudPhilippine Islands are as under :-
li'or any sum not excccdi ug £2 Os. 9d.
For any sum over £2 nnd not exceeding £5 1 6
u 5 u u 7
2 3
tl tl
7 10 3 0
and 3d. for each ndditional £1 or fractional part of that amouuf,.
'l'he commissions on moeny orders drawn on Barbados, British Guiana, the Wind-
ward Islands, the .l,eeward Islands, British Honduras, Bermuda, Turks Islands aud
'l'rinidad are ns under - •

For any sum not exceeding· £2 .. , Os. 6d •
Above £2 and not exceeding 5 .. 1 10
AboYe 5 " 7 1 6
Abo,·e 7 " 10 2 0
a.nd 6d. for eaeh ndditionnl .C3 or fractional part thereof.
T he limit amount for mono.v orders drawn on Uuited Kingdom, Pauamn, Costa Rica,
Barbados, British Guiana, t,hc Windward Islands, the Leeward T•lands, British Houd,1ras,
Bermuda, Turks Islands, Trinidad aud Cayman Islands is £40, and on United States
of America, Cnnada, Canal Zoue and l,hilippin~ Islands, £:tO lOs. 8d. or SlOO.
No application ca,n be eute1·tained for compensation for alleged injury from t,he non-
payment of n money order t>t tl1e expected time. When a money order i~ applied for
it must be on the clear understanding thnt no such claim will be allowed, and that the
Post Office is not liable, under any circumstances, to more than one payment of a mouey
order, even when, notwithstanding the precautions that arc taken, the order hns been
paid t.o a person not entitled to receive the money. Re·payrnent. to the remitter of a
money order canuot be made until the chief office of t,be paying country has been
communicated with; and appl!cations for re-payment should be accompanied by a sum
equal to the or~gtnal commission on the order.
A Through M oucy Order Exchange also exists between Jamaica and certain Drit,ish
colonies and foreign countries 1-ia the United Kingdom. Such through money orders
are subject on pnyment to a deduct ion of two pence for each .£1 with a minimum charge
of four pence. The full uamc and address of the payee of a through money order must
be given to enable the Chief Money Order Office, London, to forward to the payee a
money order for the net amount payable, the money order issued to the remitter being.
only of value ns a receipt for the amount pa1d D.lld should be retained by the remitter.