The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-04
A CONVENIENT INNOVATION
Appreciated Change in Postofficc
Money Order Department.
MAY BE DRAWN on OFFICE OF ISSUE
In This Manner the Postofacc Mn
lie Used ms disadvantages
of the system.

| An order was received Saturday at the
posioff.ce In this city from the postmaster
general, Charles Emory Smith (which has
been already put into effect. The order is
one authorizing postmssters at money or
der Offices to allow money orders to be
drawn on the office OF issue. The orier
reads as follows.
To Posimasters at Money Order Offices:
The following order has been issued by
the postmaster general:
| Order No. 1888.
| Ofii.e Of the Postmaster General, Wash
ington, ID. c., September 16 1s9S-section
! lz46 OF the postal laws and regulations as
amtnied by order 1872 Of May 20, 1894 and
further amended by order Al OF July ",
1895. Is hereby modified to read as follows:
Section l326-Upon What postoftce
Money Orders May Be Drawn--Domestic
money orders may be drawn only upon
| United States postoftices named In the list
OF money order offices published by the
department ana not upon such Offices OF
! tn. class designated as Limited money
order office" money order may be
drawn upon the office at which II Is issued,
provided that such office be not a lin
| tied money order office" The advice Of
money order so drawn, until payment Is
| made. or until the order has become .nval-
! id1ted by age (more than one year having
the issue) should be filed among he Gun
! paid advlces," the same as II eceived from
another postoffice. When payment l.
made thereon money orders drawn upon the
office OF Issue and their corresponding add
Vices must be treated respectively as "ua d
orders and paid adyices, not as repaid"
Charles Emory Smith
Postmaster General.
! paid" order Is one which has been
paid at any office other than that OF ISSUE
or one which having been drawn on the
office Of issue Is paid at the same Office
whether the amount be paid TO the payee
or ndorsee or refunded to the RENTER.
| A repaid" order Is one which having
been drawn on another office, is repaid 10
the remitter, or paid TO the payee or n
dorsee at the office of ISSUE. The advice
of repaid order only IN 10 be transmitted
10 the auditor, with the order, as a part of
the voucher.
This order will be OF much interest to a
large class who do not deposit money in
bank and who are necessarily lnconye-
| nlcneed by the handling Of money In tn
settlement OF bills etc, when check or
draft would better serve their purpose. 1t
will readily be seen that this change in the
system OF the postal money order depart
ment Is one by which large number OF
people will be identified. The first assist
ant postmaster general announces that the
change in the practice OF the service is
scope OF the money order system. and that
Il is In keeping with the policy OF the de-
partment to make 1t more popular and
useful adjunct of the postal service for 1t
is believed that this modification OF the
regulations Will receive the favor Of the
public and thereby result in marked ad-
dition 10 the transactions Of the money or
der system.
At places where banks are not in opeva-
ticn money order offices Will serve the
! porarlly deposit funds for safe keNping or
in cities where people have more confldeace
In Uncle sam than in banking Institutions.
orders may he drawn in favor OF dcpos-
itors. the amounts OF which will be- re-
funded on demand; or the order may he
indorsc1 to another person, AZ any time.
ana the payment will he made to the IN
dorsce ON presentation Of the order I,
lost duplicates will he Issued without cast.
An extract from the Uuieol States postal
regulations says:
Tho msxlmum amount for which +,
single money order may be issued at an
cfhce designated MS a money order Office
Ia 800 and at an oftlce designated as \
limited money order office, So, Wlen A
larger sum is to be sent additional orders
must be obtained. But postmasters are In
sttuctGl to refuse to issue in one day TO
the same rcmitter, and In favor of the same
payee, on any one postofice Of the fourth
class money orders amounting in the sg-
gregatc 10 more than $500, as such office
might not have funds sufficient for lmme-
dato payment OF any large amount Frac-
lions of a cent are not to be introduced, y
Three hundred dollars H.. tAsretors, the
largest amount which can be deposited with
a postmaster at any one time The de-
positor will receive In return money orde RI
as receipts for the deposit These orders
VIII he made out for whatever sums the
, dtposlor may ak for For example, he
may have deposited 5000 and take in receipt
money orders for that amount of IS each.
There orders he can use in the settlement
Of accounts or making payment for pur-
chsses, or for expenses he may wish 10
defray by simply indorsing the order 10
the party to whom he wishes 1t to be paid
The fees for the issuance Of money orders
is very small ami often times parties lv-
/, ing In the city will be able 10 save much
time and trouble by procuring A money
! order and rcmittng 1t by mail to a debtor
and thus make settlement of a debt with
very little loss Of time and often at cost
. less than street car fare, The scale OF
! fees now charged for money orders fol-
lows:
, For orders for sums not exec ding ". 90
3 cents; over 81 so and not exceeding So
!, . cents; over IS ana not exceeding $40
cents; over $40 and not exec ding $50. 10
cents; over $50 and not exceeding $50. Y
I nj nNrNp1inc $40. III