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MONEY ORDERS.
Money Orders are it~Sued at the Bead Office Kingston, and at the Post Offices of
the capital or e~oh parish. Applications for mo'ney orders nddru..<sed to the PoetmiiBfler
for Jamaica. or to a Postmaster are free of postage. (The registration fee of 2d. must,
'however, be prepaid)
The commission on money orders drawn on the United Kingdom, United States,
Canal Zone, Canada, ancl any other country except tbose named in the following
sentence is S.l)(pence for the firsL £ 1\nd threepence Cor each additional £ or fractional
part. The commission on Money Orders drawn on Trinidad, Barbados, .British Guiana,
'Windward and Leeward lgJa.nds, Turks Island, Ca.yu1an Islands Bermuda Bahamas,
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nnd British Honduras, is sixpellce for first £2 11nd two pence for ettch additional £ or
fractional piU't.
The limit amount tor money orders druwu on United Kingdotll, Cost.a Rica,
B~.~rbados, Trinidad, British Guiaua, the Wind" art! Islands, the Leeward Ialands, British
Honduras, Bermuda, Baba.ruas, Tu.rks Island and Cayman Islands is .£40, and on United
States of Allltlrica. Ca.nad&, Canal Zone aud Philippine Islands, $lOO or £20 Ss. 2d.
No application can be entertained for compen~ation for alleged injury from the non-
payment of a money order at tue expected time. \\hen a money order is applied for
it, must be on the cle~>r understanding thut no sueb claim will be nllowed, and that the
Post Office is not liuble, under any circumstanr.ea, to more than one payment of a money
order, even when, notwithstanding the preoa.utioDB that !!.re takeu, tbe order has been
paid to a person not entit.led to receive the lJloney.
Re-payment to the remitter of a money order cannot be made until the chief office
of the p&ying country has been communicated with; and applications £or re-pa.yment,
t>hould be aecumpanied by a sum equal to the 01"1Qlnal commission on the order.
A Through Money Order Exchange also existll between Jamaiua a.nd certain British
colonies and foreign countries \oia t,J:ie United Kingdom. Rucb tluough money order
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.<Ire subject 011 payment to a deductiou of two pence for each £1 with a minimum o.barge
of four-pence. The full name and address of the payee of a through money order m us
be given to eoable the Chief Money Order Office, London, to forward to the payee a
money order !or the net amount payable, the money order issued to the remitter being
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only of value 118 a re'ceipt for the amount p!Ud and ahould be retained by the remitter .
The )oliuwirty i$ a partial Lisl of Rriti~tft. Cnl(lm:IM, Proli1Clrrr«t6a, a11d Po~tlal Ag~ncie~t
abroad and oj th,, Principal Pormnn Cotmtrie& to u•hich M on11y Ordcr11 ma11 bfl ~11'111. (I).
~Antigua, •Bahamas, •Barbados, Belgium, •Bermuda, •flr!tish Gniann, •British Hon·
dnrll8 "'British Posae83ions in Africa,•CI\narla (Dominion oO, (~) IJ&n&l Zone, tcape
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or Good Hope (Province of), *Ce.yman hlo.nds, *Ceylon~ China -*(a) British P.O.
Agencies, (b) Japanese P.O. Agencies, Costa Rica, Cuoa, Cnracao (Dutch West
1ndies), •cyJ1rus, Danish W. lndies (now V~rgin Islands of the United States),
Delllllark, Domjnica, "Egypt, *Federated Mn~· States, *Fiji, Fra.nce and
Algeria, *Gibraltar, Greece, *Grenada (W. Iod.), Hawaii (Sandwich Js.), Holland,
llondu.rss (Republic of), "Hong Kong, *lno.gua, -India, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg
(Grand Duchy of)< Madagascar, Madeira, *Mruta, '*1\llo.uritius, *Mesopotamia, Mexico,
(United States of), •Montaerrat, -Morocco, Netherlands, •Nevis, *Newfoundland,
New South Wnl~ •New Zealand, *Ni~eria, Nonvay, *Palestine (Occupied Territory),
Panama (Brit. P.O.), PhiUppino Islaods, Porto Rico, Portuga~ (including t.he Azores
and Madeira). QueeMland, Russia, •st. Helew.~o. ·~t. Kitts, St. Lucia, •st. Vincent,
•'leychelles, ~iam. •Rierra Leone, *Sincrapore, South Australia, .. Straits Settlements,
•Sudan, Sweden, ""~herland, '"Tasmania., ••t'oba~ 'Tortota, '"Trinidad, -Turk; and
Caieos Islands, United Cltates of America, Victoria. (.A.ustralia), *Virgin Island$ Britisl1),
Virgin lsl&nds of tbe Unif.ed Rt!\tes, West Australia.
Telegraph :-lonc:y Orders.
The gystcm of TelegTaph Money Ordel"€ i.a in operation between the United Kingdom
and Jamaica. The remitter or a Telegraph Money Order is tequired to pay, in addition
to the M .0. commission, the cost of the Telegram of Advice at the ordina.ry rate (2/4) or
(1) For complete list of plaeea in which Money Orders are issued and paid, see latest
edition of London Postal Guide.
• British Postal Orders are also issued and paid in these countries, see " Postal Orders.''
(2) British Postal Orders are paid at certain offices in Canada, bu~ are not ittued in
Can~.da.