The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-01

whether they contain money or NOT,
D Money for redemption, after being
as heretofore directed, should DC sealea or ueu
mn in paper of suitable strength, and plainly
marked on the outside with the owners name
and full address, and with the amount enciosed;
the package should then be sealed up IN an en-
velope together with a letter OF advice, written
on not less than a half sheet of commercial
note paper stating the name and full post Office
address of the owner, the value OF tne remit
tance, and the manner in when returns snail oe
q Remittances to the Treasurer by mail are
invonoblv at the risk of the owner. All com
mnnications to the Treasurer in regard to
packages ascertalned 70 oe iose Ia trahsnIssion
Second Assistant Postmaster-General, to whom
onv further inquiry on the subject should be
n is n protection against loss to register
letters containing money, but the registry fee
should in all cases be prepaid by the party re-
mitting
Iv.-RETURNs- Ns-How.MADF
Proceeds of remittances will be returned in
all cases to the person who made the remittance
l. Returns for amounts less than five dollars,
unless instructions are given to remit proceeds
by check, Will be made in new currency by.mail
at the owners risk. lo
q Returns for amounts of five dollars and
upwards will also be made in new currency, il
the owner so requests, either by mail at his risk,
or by express at his expense, unless the amount
shall be $500 or more, or exceed $1,000 or a
case express charges will be paid by the depart
ment
unless new currency is desired, returns will be
made by transfer check on either New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, or San
Francisco, as the owner may request; or If no
place of payment is mentioned, a check on New
York will be sent In case of the loss or destruc-
tion of his checks, the Treasurer will, upon not-
fcation thereof, stop payment on the original
and furnish the applicant for q duplicate with a
form for bond of indemnity; upon the return of
which, properly executed, at the expiration of
one month from the date of the check, when
the amount thereof is fifty dollars or more, and
at the expiration of three months when the
amount is less than fifty dollars, duplicate will
be issued
4, When the remittance is from an assistant
treasurer, designated depositary, or national
bank designated as a depository, the proceeds
will if desired, be credited in account.
s. The Treasurer cannot undertake to register
remittances mailed by him, even if the registry
fee is provided for.
v.-GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Whenever any holder of currency, whether
mutilated or not, shall present the same, put up
in accordance with these regulations, in sums
not lnss than fifty dollars, to any officer or bank
required to redeem currency, 1t shall be the duty
of such officer bank to receive such parcel land
money OF give recy y snned for sucb
payment when proceeds of the parceI shall be
received from the Treasurer of the United States
When the same depositor shall habitually present
for redemption currency not mutilated in sums
somewhat less than fifty dollars, with the evil
dent intention of evading the regulation, it shall
be discretionary with the officer or bank to whom
the deposit is presented to refuse to receive the
amount until it is made up to at least fifty
dollars
2. Notes of national banks which have gone
into voluntary liquidation and deposited money
for the redemption of their outstanding circula-
ton, and notes of national banks which have
| failed, are redeemed by the Treasurer of the
| United States on presentation, and when mutt
lated will be redeemed by him, under these
rules, as United States notes; provided that the
| owner pays all express charges attendant upon
| their presentation. Notes of all other national
banks, whether mutilated or not are redeem
\ able only by the bank which issued them.
3. Before currency is presented for redemp-
| tion, notes torn in pieces should be restored by
| pasting; but in ascertaining the value of mutt
| lated currency, no allowance will be made for
| fragments not parts of the same note, attached
| to each other for the purpose of avoiding a de-
| ducton.
| 4. Government officers will receive currency
| for all public dues in accordance with the con-
ditions expressed on each note, no matter how
| badly defaced or torn, provided its genuineness
| can be clearly ascertained, and not more than
one-twentieth part of each note is missing in the
case of United States notes, and not more than
| one-tenth in the case of fractional currency.
5. All officers of this department are required,
| whenever any spurious note, purpOrting to have
been issued by the United States, shall be offered
to any such officer, to stamp thereon the word
counterfeit" .
Half-notes that have been purchased will in no
| case be redeemed. a.
Observance of the above is enjoined ON all
| assistant treasurers and depQsitaries and COM
| pliance Herewith on the part of all making re-
mittances to which the foregoing regulations
areapplicable, is desired.
F. f. SPINNER,
Treasurer United States.
| Treasury Department, Washington June z, 1869
Approved. GEORGE s. BOUTWELL,,
| Secretary of the Treasury.