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 rms xm. -·rH1¤: rosmi. S!·]RVICE.—Ch. 12-13. 777 or vehicle, or any store or house, other than a dwelling-house, used or occupied by any common carrier or transportation company, in which such box, package, or packet may be contained, whenever such agent or omcer has reason to be ieve that mailable matter, transported contrary to law, may therein be found. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. THE HONEY-ORDER. SYSTEI. Sec. I Sec. 4027. Money-order system established. . 4039. Repayment of orders. 4028. Foreign money-order exchanges. { 4040. Replacing lost orders. 4029. Issuing money-orders. 4041. Pafyment of money-orders issued in 4030. Issuing order before payment; pen- avor of lotteries, &c., may be alty. suspended. 4031. Who to act during the absence of 4042. Transfer of money-order funds. postmaster. 4043. Transfer by warrant to money-order Amount of orders and fees. funds. 4033. Blank applications for orders. 4044. Report of money-order funds. 4034. Orders to be on printed blanks. 40-I5. What to be money-order funds. 4035. Notice of orders drawn to be sent. · 4046. Embezzlementofmoney-orderfunds; 4036. Order to be good for one year.penalty; explanatic n. _ 4037. lndorsement of orders. _ I 4047. Pay for lSSl.11llg and paying money- 4038. Changes and modification of. or-. orders. ders. I 4048. Money-order incidentals. Sec. 4027. To promote public convenience, and to insure greater secu- Msnsy-order sysrity in the transfer of money through the mail, the Postmaster-General tf? ““‘bl‘Sh"d· may establish and maintain, under such rules and regulations as he may 8 June, 1872, c. deem expedient, a uniform money-order system, at all suitable post-oflices, 335, S- I0?. V- 17. p- which s rall be desi nated as " money-order offices.” 297* Sec. —l0‘2.8. The lgostmaster-General may conclude arrangements with Fo1d8H money- the post departments of foreign governments, with which postal conven- °"d°" ""°h‘*“8°“· tions have been, or may be, concluded, for the exchange, by means of Ibid., ¤. 103, p. postal orders, of small sums of money, not exceeding fifty dollars in 297- amount, at such rates of exchange, and compensation to postmasters, and under such rules and regulations as he may deem expedient; and the expenses of establishing and conducting such system of exchange may be paid out of the proceeds of the money-order business. Sec. 4029. The stmaster of every city where branch post-offices or Issuing money- stations are establlighed and in operation, subject to his supervision, is {dem- __ authorized, under the direction of the Postmaster—General, to issue, or to 1 June, 1872, c. cause to be issued, by any of his assistants or clerks in charge of branch 256» ¤· 2, 1*- 17. p- post-offices or stations, postal money-orders, payable at his own or at any 20g' June ,872 other money-order office, or at any branch post-office or station of his 335,810; v_1y' 3: own, or of an other money—order office, as the remitters thereof may 297.’ direct; and the postmaster and his sureties shall, in ever case, be held accountable upon his official bond for all moneys receivedv by him or his designated assistants or clerks in charge of stations, from the issue of money-orders, and for all moneys which may come into his or their hands, or be placed in his or their custody by reason of the transaction by them of money-order business. Sec. 4030. Any (postmaster who issues a money—order with_out having Issuingorderbepreviously receive the money therefor shall be deemed guilty of a mis- f*{:°P°Ym°¤i&P0¤· demeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hun- §-.X;.__ dred dollars. 8·l“¤€»1$72»¤·335, s. 105, v. 17, p. 297. Sec. 4031. In case of the sickness or unavoidable absence from his Who to act duroffice of the postmaster of an money-order post—0Hfice, he may, with the 1¤8¤b¤¤¤¢s<>f1><>¤f~ approval of the Postmaster-(general, authorize the chief clerk, or some H”“"· other clerk employed therein, to act in his place, and to discharge all Ibid-, s- 106, p. the duties required by law of such postmaster; and the official bond 297- given by the principal of the omce shall he held to cover and apply to