Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-24
4 NEW FORM OF DOMESTIC MONEY ORDER ADOPTED BY THE POST OFFICE DEPoRTMENT. IT WILL BE APPROVED By Banks and Business People GeneraIly-.-Can Be Conyen-
 iently Handled.

The Post Office Department has adopted q new form of domestic money order, which will be intra- duced gradually, CT as supplies of the old form become exhausted, at the various post ofhees throughout the country. after tue 4th of Septeni- Der.
 DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE NEW
 FORM.
 The new form is somewhat small CT than the Ione in use. It's dimen- sions are about those of the ordina ry bank draft 1t has two adiunets- the advice, or notification to be sent by the issuing te the paying postmaster. is a reproduction of the order through the Use Of earbonized paper (the manifold process. and u receipt for the amount, to be furn- ished by the issuing postmaster to the remitter.
 On the back of the order u sepa- rate space has teen provided for the stamps of banks through which it may be passed for collection.
 In color the order is blue, having q light blue ground, with fine, closely interlaced, tinted lines of geometri= cal lathe=wtrk. of darker shade. h the center is aR escntcheon bearing the Words, Postal Money Order0 in shaded capital letters of the same two tints of blue. The tint of the order and the lathe-work will serve to prevent imitation; but, as an ad- ditional safeguard against counter . feiting, horizontal water-mark composed of the initiale U. s. M. O. in broad, capital letters, has been wrought into the paper on which the new forms are printed
 ADVANTAGES OF THE NEW FORM.
 Through the process mentioned (the carbon, or manifold process, ) the order and the advice are pro- duced simultaneously By the same operation the essential particulars of name of payee, date, amount, and place of payment, as written in the order. are duplicated. or reproduced and made to appear in the advice precisely as in the order. The liabil- ity to mistake is thus greatly lessen ed, and a saving of time effected. Discrepances between order and ad- vice, which, by entailing additional correspondence and causing delay in payment, have heretofore been Il source Of annoyance to the Depart ment and postmastera, as we'll as to remitters and payees, are prevented and absolute uniformity between the order and advice insured. The despatch of adyices, which hitherto have not been made out until after issue of tht orders, will also be ac- tolerated,
 The receipt, which is to be fur hished by the issuing postmaster to the remitter, showing the number and date of the order aLd the amount for which issuad, is also, in the main, reproduction, by the carbon process, of the writing and stamping on the order, hence must necessarily agree herewith. The adoption of il receipt has not hither- been practicable. It will tend to populafizs the postal money order, supplying more than ali else what was Deeded to make it, in the esti- nation of the public, perfectly sat isfactory vehicle for the transmission of small sums, Possession of the re ceipt will give the remitte.' feeling of security. On the back of 1t he may make, for his own convenience. a memorandum of the name and ad- dress of the person to whom the re- mi tance is made and the purpose for which it is sent. Production of the receipt will greatly facilitate