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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, -ice.
INSURANCE.ON PARCELS.
1. If any article of pecuniary value enclosed in or forming part of an insured parcel be lost
or damaged whilst in the custody of the Island Postmaster, the Island Postmaster may (subject
to the approval of the High Commissioner) pay to any person or persons who may in the opinion
of the Island Postmaster establish a reasonable claim to compensation, having regard to the value
of the article, the care with which it was packed and other circumstances, such sum in respect of
auch parcel as he may think just.
The Island Postmaster is not liable either personally or in his official capacity to any action
or ocher legal proceeding in respect of or in consequence of the loss or damage of articles enclosed
in or forming part of any parcel. And, subject to the approval of the High Commissioner, the
decision of the Island Postmaster on all questious arising between him and any person ckiming
payment in respect of the loss or damage of any article enclosed in or forming part of a parcel
shall be final.
2. A n amount not eiceeding £ 1 2 may be paid by way of compensation for the loss or
damage of any parcel in respect of which the sender has paid the sums hereinafter mentioned
in addition to the postage payable thereon.
3. In respect of every additional payment of the sums hereinafter mentioned which may be
paid as aforesaid compensation to an additional amount of £ 1 2 may be paid; provided that the
amount of compensation payable in respect of any one parcel shall in no case exceed the limit of
insurance hereinafter mentioned.
4. (a) Parcels containing watches, jewellery or any other articles of gold or silver cannot be
sent by parcel post unless insured for at least part of their value.
(b) Parce.3 containing coin cannot be accepted for transmission by parcel post even
if insured.
(c) Any parcel posted uninsured and found to contain any of the above named articles will
be returned to the sender by the Island Postmaster or his deputies.
(d) A compulsory registration fee of lcp. will be collected on the dehvery of every uninsured
parcel received from the places hereinafter mentioned and found to contain any of the above
named articles.
• LETTER AND PARCEL INSURANCE FEES.
Place of destination
Limit of
Insurance
on each letter
or parcel
£
l
For Insurance
noe exceeding
£12
For every
additional
£12 or
fraction
thereof
United Kingdom... ... ... ... ... ...
Localities served through che intermediary of the Imperial
Post Office :—
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Azores. Cape Verd Islands, Cameroons. Canary Island. \
Mad'-ira, Danish West Indies (St. Thomas. St. John
aud St. Croix); Dutch Guiana, Dutch West Indies
(Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Martin):
Freuch West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) ;
Lilieria, Dahomey. Portuguese West Africa (Provinces
of Angola, Guinea. St. T ho me and Principe; (French
West Africa (French Guinea aud Senegal including
the French Soudan), French Congo, Gaboon, Ivory
Coast. Reunion, Ecuador, French Guiana, Liberia
Letters wiily—Argentine Republic
Chili. Falkland Islands, Gold Coast Colony (including
Ashanti and the Northern Territories); Grenada, St.
Helena. St. Vincent (West Indies)
N e w Zealu ud. Antigua. Barbados. Bermuda, British Guiana.
Cameroons. Cuba. Dominica, Gambia, Jamaica,
Montserrat, Nevis. Newfoundland. Southern Nigeria
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os- Sc. Kitts. Leeward Islands, St. Lucia. Sierra
Leone, Toi.ago. Tortola. Trinidad
Parrels only—Ascension. Bahamas,
Uni:-l -cue*--* of America. (Semi-official service American
Express Company) Parcels only
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Localities served through the intermediary of the
Egyptian Postal Administration :—
Algeria. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Crete, Denmark, Finland, France,Germany, Gibraltar,
Holland. Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Malta. Monte-
negro, Mauritania : Tangier; Portugal. Roumania,
Russia in Europe (including the Grand Duchy of
Finland, Caucasus and Trauscaspia (Asia) ) ; Servia,
Switzerland, Tripoli (Africa) (Italian Offices:
Benghasi and Tripoli) Tunis and Turkey
Letters only—Spain
• Service suspended.
£
120
cp.
4
ep.
20 ,
20 j
50
120
50
120
50
6
6
3
4
8
4
50
50
7
7
AOTaORITT.
Order of tligh Corami*.
sioner in Council N'o. 1(9
of the ISth May, 1909
published in Gazette No'
'*>49 of tho 2t*th
1909.
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