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Show POSTAL NOTES. A Letter From Washington In Relation to Their Issue. Postmaster Benton has received the following: fol-lowing: ' Washington, July 16, 1891 Several cases of defectively-issued postal notes have recently come to the khowledge of this department. Errors in the issue of postal notes lead to delay in their payment, and consequent iuconvenience and annoy- . ance to the holders thereof. Postmasters at money-order and postal-note otticea are, therefore, hereby requested to exercise the freatest care in the issue of postal notes, hey should carefully examine each postal note before handing it to the purchaser, to see that the amount written in the body thereof agrees with the sum indicated by the coupons remaining attached to the note,: and by the figures punched out in the margin, mar-gin, that it is signed by the po6tma6ter upon the face and that it is stamped with the dating dat-ing stamp upon the back. If a postal note is spoiled in issuing, the postmaster must make out and hand to the purchaser a new note in lieu thereof, and must plainly mark the spoiled note, and also its stub, as "not Issued," and will so enter it in its numerical sequence on the statement state-ment with which it is forwarded to the department. de-partment. C. F. Mactonai,d, Superintendent Money-Order System. |