3. On every outgoing parcel addressed to Madeira there Rates to shall be charged and paid the rates of postage following, that Madeira. is to say: If not exceeding three pounds in weight s. d. 1 6 ... 2 0 ... 2 6 If exceeding three pounds and not exceeding seven ... ... ... If exceeding seven pounds and not exceeding eleven ... ... weight and dimensions. 4. Except by permission of the Postmaster-General there Maximum shall not be forwarded, conveyed or delivered by post to Portugal or Madeira or to the Azores by the direct sea route any parcel the dimensions of which shall exceed three feet and a half in length or six feet in length and girth combined. 5. This Warrant shall come into operation on the First day Commenceof September, 1905. Dated this 12th day of August, 1905. H. W. Forster, Two of the Commissioners of Stanley, His Majesty's Postmaster-General. ment of Warrant. Dominican Republic. THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST AMENDMENT (No. 17) WARRANT, 1905. DATED SEPTEMBER 26, 1905. 1905. No. 1055. We, the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of all powers given to us by the Post Office Acts, or any of them, and of all other powers enabling us in this behalf do, by this Warrant, made on the representation of His Majesty's Postmaster-General (testified by his signing the same) and under the hands of two of us, the said Commissioners, order, direct, and declare as follows: 1. This Warrant may be cited as "The Foreign and Colonial Short title Parcel Post Amendinent (No. 17) Warrant 1905.' 7051 2 B2 Warrant to be read with existing Warrants. Rates to the Maximum weight and dimensions. Commence. ment of Warrant. Date. 2. This Warrant shall be read as one with the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1902,* and all Warrants amending the same. 3. On every outgoing parcel addressed to the Dominican Republic and transmitted via the Danish West Indies there shall be charged and paid the rates of postage following, that is to say : If not exceeding three pounds in weight If exceeding three pounds and not exceeding seven ... ... s. d. ... 30 4 0 ... ... 5 0 ... If exceeding seven pounds and not exceeding eleven. 4. Except by permission of the Postmaster-General there shall not be forwarded, conveyed or delivered by post under this Warrant any parcel the dimensions of which shall exceed two feet in length or four feet in length and girth combined. 5. This Warrant shall come into operation on the first day of November, 1905. Dated this 26th day of September, 1905. II. W. Forster, Two of the Commissioners of Stanley, His Majesty's Postmaster-General. Costa Rica. THE FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PARCEL POST AMENDMENT (No. 18) WARRANT, 1905. DATED DECEMBER 21, 1905. 1905. No. 1328. We the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury in exercise of all powers given to us by the Post Office Acts or any of them and of all other powers enabling us in this behalf do, by this Warrant, made on the representation of His Majesty's Postmaster-General (testified by his signing the same) and under * Printed St. R. & O. Rev., 1904, "Post Office," pp. 65-85, the hands of two of us, the said Commissioners, order, direct, and declare as follows: 1. This Warrant may be cited as "The Foreign and Colonial Short title. Parcel Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant, 1905." 2. This Warrant shall be read as one with the Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant, 1902* (hereinafter referred to as "The Principal Warrant "), and all Warrants amending the same. 3. In lieu of the rates of postage now payable on out-going parcels addressed to Costa Rica, there shall be charged and paid on such parcels the rates of postage following, that is to say: Warrant to be read with existing Warrants. Rates to If not exceeding three pounds in weight s. d. 2 0 ... 3 0 If exceeding seven pounds and not exceeding 4 0 4. This Warrant shall come into operation on the first day Commenceof January, One thousand nine hundred and six. ment of Warrant. Dated this 21st day of December, One thousand nine Date. THE POSTAL ORDER (INLAND) REGULATIONS, 1905, DATED 1905. No. 1089. Whereas the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880,† provides that, subject to the Post Office Regulations, the PostmasterGeneral, with the consent of the Treasury, may, for the purpose of the transmission of small sums through the Post Office, * Printed St. R. & O. Rev., 1904, "Post Office," pp. 65–85. Definitions. Schedules to Regulations. may issue and authorize his officers, or any of them, to issue Orders in the form set forth in the Schedule to that Act, subject, nevertheless, to the provisoes contained in the said Act: And whereas by the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848* and 1880, the Postmaster-General is authorized, with the consent of the Treasury, to make Post Office Regulations relating to Money Orders, and to the persons by or to whom Money Orders shall be paid, and to the times at which, and the mode in which, the same shall be paid: And whereas by the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1883,‡ as amended by the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1903,§ certain alterations in the form of the Orders issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880, are sanctioned, and the Postmaster-General is empowered, with the consent of the Treasury, to prescribe by Post Office Regulations further modifications of the form of such Orders, and the several amounts (not exceeding twenty-one shillings) of such Orders, and the sums of poundage (not exceeding twopence) to be taken in respect of such Orders, and to authorize, by such Regulations, the issue of such Orders by any persons holding office under the Crown: Now, therefore, I, the Right Honourable Edward George Villiers Stanley, C.B., commonly called Lord Stanley, His Majesty's Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 to 1904, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, with the consent of the Treasury, do hereby make the following Regulations (that is to say):— 1. In these Regulations: The term "Postal Order means a Money Order issued in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880. The term "the payee means the person entitled to receive the amount of a Postal Order. The term "month" means calendar month. 2. The Schedules to these Regulations shall be deemed part of these Regulations. 3. Any such officer of the Post Office, and any such other person holding office under the Crown as may from time to time be authorized in this behalf by the Postmaster-General (which officers are in these Regulations referred to as Postmasters) may issue and pay Postal Orders in the form set forth in the First Schedule hereto. * 11-2 V. c. 58. † 43-4 V. c. 33. 46-7 V. c. 58. § 3 Edw. 7, c. 12. A Postmaster may, subject to any restrictions or directions from time to time given by the Postmaster-General, do by deputy anything under these Regulations. 4. Postal Orders shall be issued for the sum of sixpence, and Amounts of for such multiples of sixpence up to and including the sum of Postal twenty-one shillings as the Postmaster-General may from time. to time direct. Orders. 5. The Poundage payable for Postal Orders shall be as Poundage follows: For 6d. and every multiple of 6d. up to ... ... For every multiple of 6d. between 2s. Old. 1d. ... 1 d. For every multiple of 6d. between 11s. on Postal Orders. Orders. 6. Every Postal Order shall be issued with a Counterfoil, Counterfoils but the Counterfoil shall be detached by the person to whom to Postal the Order is issued, and the term "Postal Order in these Regulations (except where the context otherwise requires) shall not include the Counterfoil. as used Postal Order. 7. Before a Postmaster issues a Postal Order, the amount Issue of a of the Order and the poundage thereon shall be paid to him; and he shall sign the Order and stamp it with the proper stamp, specifying the date on which the Order is issued. Orders. 8. Postal Orders shall be printed on such paper and in Printing of such characters and with such distinctive marks, whether on Postal the face or back of the Postal Order or in the paper or otherwise, and the amount of the poundage shall be denominated by means of such stamp or mark, as the Postmaster-General, with the concurrence of the Treasury, from time to time directs. 9.-(a.) The blanks in a Postal Order for the name of the payee and for the name of the Post Office at which the Order is to be paid may be filled in before or after issue. (b.) If the blanks are not filled in before issue, the person to whom the Order is issued, must before parting with it fill in the name of the payee, and may fill in the name of the Post Office at which the Order is to be paid. Even where an Order is crossed with a view to the payment through a banker the name of the payee must be filled in. (c.) Except when the Order is paid through a banker, the payee must sign the receipt at the foot of the Order, and must also fill in the name of the Post Office at which the Order is to be paid if that has not been already done. Filling in of blanks in a Postal Order. |