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Money letters. Drafts payable to bearers should be cut in halves

0035 General-Post-Office, November 24, 1797
Raguin Code: –9707

To prevent the Loss of entire Notes or Drafts payable to Bearer, in Letters sent by Post, the Postmaster General repeat their Recommendation to the Public so often inserted in the London Gazette, and circulated by Hand-Bills throughout the Kingdom; namely, to cut all such Notes or Drafts in Half in the following Form, to send them at two different Times, and to wait for the Return of the Post till the Receipt of one Half is acknowledged before the other is sent.

Persons who do not approve of this Mode of remitting Notes or Drafts, payable to Bearer, on Account of the increased Postage, are advised to send Bills of Exchange or Bank Post Bills, made payable to the Person to whom they are sent, or specially indorsed to such Person or Order.

When Money, or Rings, or Lockets, &c. are sent by Post from London, particular care should be taken to deliver the same to the Clerk at the Window, at the General Post-Office; and when any such Letter is to be sent from the Country it should be delivered into the Hands of the Postmaster; but it is to be observed that this Office does not engage to insure the Party from Loss.

ANTHONY TODD, FRANCIS FREELING, Joint Secy.