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MONEY OROEElS. 99
MONEY ORDERS.
Money Orders are issued at the Head Office, Kingston, and at the Post Offices of
the capital of each parish. Applica tions for money oHiers addressed to the Postmaster
for Jamaica or to a Postmaster arc free of postage. (The registration fee of 2d. must,
however, be prepaid.)
The commission on money orders drawn on *Great Britain, (including North-
ern Ireland), United States of Americn, Canal Zone, Cannda and Newfoundland,
and any other country except those named in the following sentence is sixpence for
the first £ and threepence for each additional £ or fractional p11rt. The commission on
Money Orders drawn on • Trinidad, • Barbados, • British Guiana, • Windward and
• Leeward Islands, • Turks Island, • Cayman Islands, • Bermuda, • Bahamas, a nd
• British Honduras, is sixpence for first £2 and two pence for each additional £ or
fractional part.
The limit amount for money orders drawn on Gre:1t Bt'itn.in, Barbados, Trinidad,
British Guiana, the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islsnds, Br·i~iah Honduras, Bermuda,
Bahamas, Turks Island and Cnyman Islands is £40, and on United States of America,
Canadn, Newfoundland, Canal Zone and Philippine Islands, SIOO.
No application eau be eutertained for compensation for alleged injury from the non-
payment of a money order at the expected time. When a money order is applied for
it must be on the clear understanding that no such claim will be a llowed, aud that t.he
Post Office is not liable, under any circumstances, to more than one payment of a money
order, even when, not"'ithstanding the precautions that arc taken, the order has been
paid to a person not entitled ~o receive ~he money.
Re-payment to the remitter of a money order cannot be made until the chief office
of the paying country has been communicated with .
A Through Money Order Exchange also exis~s between Jamnica and certnjn British
colonies lllld foreign count.ries through the British Post Ofl'rce. Such through money
orders are subject on payment to a deduction of two pence for each £1 with a minimum
charge of four-pence. The full name aud address of the payee of a through money 01der
must be given to enable the Chief Money Order Office, London, to forward to the payee
n money order for the net amount payable, the money order issued to the remitter being
only of value as a receipt for the amount p>lid and should be retained by the remitter.
The following u a partial List of British Colo11ies, Protectorates, and Postal Agencies
abroad and of the Principal Foreign Comrtries lo which Money Orders may be sent through.
London. t
*Ascension, Australia (Commonwealth of), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, * Ceylon,
Costa Rica, • Cyprus, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark. *Egypt, • Federated Malay
States, • Fiji, France and Algeria. Germnny *Gibraltar, • Gold Coast, Greece, Holland,
Honduras (Republic of), • Hong Kong, Hungary, *Irish Free State, *India and Aden,
Italy, • Iraq, Japan, • Kenya, Luxemburg, • Malta, *New Zealand, * Ni;reria, Norway,
• Nyasn.land Protectorate, • Palestine, Poland, Pcrtugal, • Rhodesia, (Northern nod
Southern), Roumania,* Sierra Leone,* South Africa (Union of) Spain,* Sudan, Swf.den,
Switzerland, *Tanganyika Territory, * Togoland (British), • Uganda, Yugoslavia,
• Zanzibar.
T elegraph :"'oncy Order:s.
The system of Telegraph Money Orders is in operation between Great Brib in and
Jamaica. The remitter of a Tclegr::tph l'v!oney Order is required to pay, in addition to
the M.O. commission. the cost of the Telegram of Advice at the ordinary rate (2/4) or
• British Postal Orders are also issued and paid in these countries see "Postal Orders,"
page 100.
t For complete list oi pmces in which Money Orders are issued and pa'.d see latest
edition of British Post Office Guide.