An Act Regulating the Issuance of Postal Money Orders in the Philippine Islands

April 17, 1906

ACT NO. 1476

AN ACT REGULATING THE ISSUANCE OF POSTAL MONEY ORDERS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

SECTION 1. The rate of fees chargeable on money orders issued from any post-office in the Philippine Islands payable at the same or any other post-office in the Philippine Islands hereafter shall be as follows:

For orders for sums not exceeding five pesos, Philippine currency, ten centavos, Philippine currency; over five pesos and not exceeding ten pesos, Philippine currency, fourteen centavos, Philippine currency; over ten pesos and not exceeding twenty pesos, Philippine currency, twenty centavos, Philippine currency; over twenty pesos and not exceeding forty pesos, Philippine currency, twenty-four centavos, Philippine currency; over forty pesos and not exceeding sixty pesos, Philippine currency, twenty-eight centavos, Philippine currency; over sixty pesos and not exceeding eighty pesos, Philippine currency, thirty-four centavos, Philippine currency; over eighty pesos and not exceeding one hundred pesos, Philippine currency, forty centavos, Philippine currency; over one hundred pesos and not exceeding one hundred and twenty pesos, Philippine currency, forty-four centavos, Philippine currency; over one hundred and twenty pesos and not exceeding one hundred and fifty pesos, Philippine currency, fifty-four centavos, Philippine currency; over one hundred and fifty pesos and not exceeding two hundred pesos, Philippine currency, sixty-four centavos, Philippine currency.

Orders issued in United States currency payable in the Philippine Islands may be issued in corresponding amounts at corresponding rates.

SECTION 2. The rate of fees chargeable on money orders issued from any post-office in the Philippine Islands payable at any post-office in the United States (including Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, Tutuila, Samoa, and the United States Postal Agency at Shanghai, China), British Guiana, Canada, Cuba, Newfoundland, and the following islands in the West Indies: Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tortola (Virgin Islands), and Virgin Gorda (Virgin Islands), shall be as follows:

For orders for sum both exceeding two dollars and fifty cents, United States currency, ten centavos, Philippine currency; over two dollars and fifty cents and not exceeding five dollars, United States currency, fourteen centavos, Philippine currency; over five dollars and not exceeding ten dollars, United States currency, twenty centavos, Philippine currency; over ten dollars and not exceeding twenty dollars, United States currency, thirty-two centavos, Philippine currency; over twenty dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, United States currency, forty-eight centavos, Philippine currency; over thirty dollars and not exceeding forty dollars, United States currency, sixty-two centavos, Philippine currency; over forty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, United States currency, seventy-six centavos, Philippine currency; over fifty dollars and not exceeding sixty dollars, United States currency, ninety centavos, Philippine currency; over sixty dollars and not exceeding seventy-five dollars, United States currency, one peso and sixteen centavos, Philippine currency; over seventy-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, United States currency, one peso and fifty centavos, Philippine currency.

SECTION 3. No money order shall be issued for a greater sum than two hundred pesos, Philippine currency, or one hundred dollars, United States currency, and no postmaster shall directly or indirectly sell more than ten money orders in one day to one party payable to the same person.

SECTION 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

ENACTED, April 17, 1906.