containing them will (if detected) not be forwarded from Northern Nigeria:

Letters; Explosives and dangerous articles; foreign reprints of British copyright works; acetylene; base or counterfeit coins; foreign coin other than gold and silver; fictitious stamps, and any die, plate or material for making such stamps; extracts; essences or other concentrations of coffee, chicory, tea or tobacco (except in transit); indecent or obscene prints, books, pictures, or other articles; snuff; tobacco stalk flour (except by special permission of the British Customs Authorities); cut and compressed tobacco; tobacco packed with other goods; tobacco sweetened with the leaves of trees or plants other than the tobacco plant; articles infringing the law as to the marking of merchandise; foreign prison-made goods; lottery advertisements; saccharin, and substances of a like nature or use such as saxin, etc., or mixtures of the same; bounty-fed sugar produced in Russia, Denmark and the Arshoddy; disused and filthy clothing and bedding; and live animals (except bees in properly constructed cases).

Subject to the restrictions mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, tobacco, including cigars, cigarettes, and snuff is admitted, if declared, but is subject to fine in addition to the duty. Gold and silver plate, imported as merchandise, must be assayed, and is not admitted if below the proper standing. No parcel may contain coin (unless clearly intended for purposes of ornament) or bullion exceeding five pounds sterling in value.

30. All parcels sent by Parcel post are chargeable with fresh Charges for postage if re-directed.

re-direction.

31. Undeliverable parcels will be retained until the sender can Undeliverable be communicated with.

parcels.

MONEY ORDERS.

32. Arrangements have been made by which money orders may be exchanged with the United Kingdom, and with all countries with which the United Kingdom exchanges money orders, as from June 1st, 1904.

Countries to which money be sent.

orders inay

33. The rates of commission payable on orders will be as Rates of follows:

For sums not exceeding £2

£

s. d. 008

exceeding £2 and not exceeding £6

commission.

...

The rates for inland orders will be half the above.

34. Money Order business is transacted during the ordinary Hours of

issue.

office hours at each Money Order Office.

Despatch by mail.

Orders to be confidential.

Books and slips.

Method of issue.

35. The advices of Money Orders issued more than four hours. before the advertised time for despatching the mail for the office on which they are drawn will be included in that mail; orders issued subsequently will not be included in that mail.

36. No information may be given to the public relative to the advices of Money Orders.

37. The following is a list of books and forms supplied to offices transacting Money Order business:

Books of Blank Money Order Forms with Advice Forms attached.

Books of Duplicate Money Order Forms.

Books of Corrected Advice Forms.

Books of Second Advice Forms.

Books of Certificate of Issue of a Money Order.

Books of Money Order Cash Books.

Slips to be filled in by the Public when applying for an inland
Money Order.

Slips to be filled in by the Public when applying for a foreign
Money Order.

Slips Money Order Amount Sheet.

Slips applying for a Second Advice.

The officer in charge of each office must see that this supply of books and forms does not become exhausted; he must therefore make application for a fresh supply in good time.

38. When application is made for a Money Order the applicant should be handed a form (Inland Requisition Form for orders payable in the Protectorate, Foreign Requisition Form for orders payable outside the Protectorate) and requested to fill in the particulars of the order required.

(a.) The amount for which the order is required and the commission should be ascertained, and then an order and advice prepared.

(b.) The order should be handed to the applicant for transmission to the payee, except in the case of an order payable at places in Aden, Austria (and its agencies in Turkey and the Levant), Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Chili, Congo Free State, Danish West Indies, Denmark (and Faroe Island), Dutch East Indies, Egypt, Finland, Germany and German Possessions, Herzegovina, Holland (the Netherlands), Hungary, Iceland, India and its agencies (except Ceylon), Japan, Korea, Luxemburg, Netherland (Holland), Norway, Portugal (with Madeira and Azores), Roumania, Salvador, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis, Uruguay. For orders issued on these places a certificate of "issue" must be handed to the applicant instead of the order form. The order form and advice form, with the application slip, must be sent to the Money Order Office, Lokoja.

(.) The order form must be handed to the applicant in the case of orders issued on any other country, and the advice, with the application form attached, must be sent to the Money Order Office, Lokoja.

(7.) In the case of Inland Money Orders the advice must be addressed to the Postmaster of the Paying Office, and posted by the next outgoing mail for that place.

(e.) If the Remitter send a letter with the particulars required and the necessary amount by a messenger, the clerk must fill in an application docket and file it with the letter, and then issue the order.

(f) If the applicant for a Money Order be illiterate the clerk may fill in an application docket for him, but he will invariably get another officer to witness that the amount is correctly stated, and certify on the docket accordingly.

to issuing

39. When preparing the Money Orders and advices care must Instructions be taken :(a.) That the number on the advice agrees with the number on

the Money Order.

(b.) That the name of the issuing office is plainly written on the top of the forms.

(c.) That a clean impression of the date stamp is made in the space provided on both forms.

(d) That the amount for which the order is issued is clearly stated in figures in the space provided at the top of the forms and in words in the body of the forms.

When an order is drawn for an amount that does not necessitate a figure or word being placed in each space, two lines must be drawn through the otherwise blank space, thus:

(e.) That the surname, and at least the initials of the Christian name, be clearly stated in the advice form. If the applicant has no Christian name the name by which he is known will be stated in full.

(f) That Money Order business is transacted at the place on which the order is drawn.

(9.) When issuing a corrected advice stamps of the amount of the commission will be affixed to it and cancelled with

the pen.

officer.

40. No correction or erasure may appear on the face of a Spoilt forms. Money Order or advice form; therefore if any error is made when preparing the forms the clerk must write across the forms "Spoilt " and add his full signature. He must then prepare a fresh order

Orders payable by banks.

Second advice forms.

Entry in ledger.

Payment of orders.

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for the applicant. These "Spoilt" forms must be entered in the Ledger, thus "No......... Spoilt," and must be forwarded with the paid orders to the Money Order Office, Lokoja.

41. If the remitter desires that an order be paid through a bank two lines should be drawn accross the face of the order and the words " & Co." be added, thus. The relative advice should be crossed similarly. If the name of a particular bank be added, payment will only be made to a representative of that bank. The name of the remitter need not be furnished.

42. If the paying officer reports any discrepancy between a Money Order and the advice, or that an advice has failed to reach the paying office, a second advice form must be issued giving correct particulars. These forms must only be issued by the office that issued the original order, and they must bear the number of the original form.

43. Full particulars of each order issued must be entered in the Money Order Ledger. When a "Duplicate Order," or a "Corrected Advice" form, or a "Second Advice" form is issued, an entry must be made in the Ledger, thus "Duplicate issued for No......... or "Corrected Advice issued for No...... "Second Advice issued for No.........," as the case may be. No amount should appear in the cash column, after column, but the amount of commission charged should be entered in case of a Duplicate Order being issued. Care must be taken to file the slips for Money Orders required in the order in which the entries are made in the Money Order Ledger.

44. When an order is presented for payment the clerk should see if he has the relative advice on hand, and if so he should verify the date, number, and amount entered on the advice with those entered on the order; he should then ask the applicant to sign the order in the space provided, and he must see that the signature given agrees with the name of the payee entered on the advice. The applicant should then be asked to furnish the name of the remitter, and if he do so correctly the order should be paid, provided that payment has not been deferred or the order crossed. (a.) If payment has been deferred the order must not be paid until the stipulated time has elapsed.

(b.) If the order is crossed "& Co.," whether the relative advice is similarly crossed or not, payment must only be made to a person known to be in the employment of the bank receipting it. When an order is presented by a representative of a bank the remitter's name need not be asked.

(c.) If the payee be illiterate, he must make his mark, and must bring a witness with him who will sign as witness; the witness must add his address to his signature.

45. When a notice is received from the remitter or payee Orders requesting that the payment of an order be stopped, the advice of stopped. the order referred to should be endorsed "payment stopped," and the application submitted to the Money Order Office, Lokoja, for instructions. In the meantime the order if presented must not be paid. No Money Order on which an erasure or correction has been made, or which has been mutilated in any way, may be paid without the sanction of the Postmaster.

46. Money Orders become void if not presented for payment Void orders. within one year of the date of issue. The advices of Money Orders that have become void must be sent to the Money Order Office, Lokoja.

agree

when

47. When an order is presented for payment and the relative Second advice, advice is not on hand, or if on hand the amount does not with that stated on the order, payment must be refused, and required. the issuing office asked for a Second Advice. Printed forms are supplied for applying for Second Advice forms, but the payee should also be advised to communicate with the remitter. Second Advice forms must not be applied for by telegraph unless the payee agrees to pay for the telegram.

48. Immediately after payment, the Money Order and advice Treatment must be "date-stamped" in the proper spaces and initialled by after the paying officer, and a proper entry must be made in the payment. Money Order Ledger. Care must be taken to keep the Money Orders and advices in the order they are entered in the ledger ;

the Money Orders in one packet, the advices in another.

49. At the end of each day the Money Order Ledger must Transmission be balanced up and copied on to the Money Order Account of accounts.

Sheet.

(a.) The Account Sheet and the paid orders must be forwarded

to the Money Order Office by the next mail.

(b.) The advices of the paid orders will be sent by the mail after that in which the relative orders are enclosed.

50. The officer in charge of each office will be held responsible Responsi that these instructions are carried out at his office, and if any bility of fraud is committed through his neglect, he will be liable for the postal officer. amount the revenue may lose thereby.

collect

commission.

51. The Postmaster will by each mail forward to offices of Postmaster exchange outside the Protectorate a list of Money Orders payable to pay or by them, and will see that a payment of per cent is made to them on the gross amount of such orders. He will similarly be responsible that a like sum is recovered from such offices of exchange and paid into the Treasury in respect of all orders payable in Northern Nigeria.