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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &C.
INSURANCE ON PARCELS.
I. If any article of pecuniary value enclosed in or forming part of an Insured parcel be lost
or damaged whilst, in the custody of tbe Island Postmaster, the Island Postmaster may (subject
to the approval of tbe High Commissioner) pay to any person or persons who m a y 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
such parcel as he may think just.
The Island Postmaster is not liable either personally or in his official capacity to any action
or other 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 questions arising between him and any person claiming
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 exceeding £ 1 2 m a y he 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 wliich 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. in) 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) Parcels containing coin cunuot be accepted for transmission by parcel post even
if insured.
(c) Auy jjjircel posted uninsured and found to contain any of the aijove named articles will
be returned tci the sender by the Islaud Postmaster or his deputies.
id) A compulsory reiristration fee of 4r-». will lie collected on the delivery of every uninsured
piircl received from the places hereinafter mentioned aud found to contain auy of the above
named articles.
LETTER AND PARCEL INSURANCE FEES.
Place
of destination
Uniteil Kingdom...
Localities served through the intermediary of the Imperial
Post Ollice :—
Azores, Cape'Verd Islands, Cameroons. Canary Island.
Madeira, Danish West Indies (St. Thomas, St. .John
aud St. Croix): Dutch Guiana. Dutch West Indies
(Curacao. Sal*a. St. Eustatius and St. Martin):
French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) :
Liberia. Dahomey. Portuguese West Africa (Provinces
of Ansrola. Guinea, St. T h o m e and Principe: (French
West Africa (French Guinea and Senegal including
the Freuch Soudan), French Congo, Gaboon, Ivory
Coast, Reunion. Ecuador, French Guiana. Liberia
Letters only—Argentine Republic
Chili, Falkland Islands, Gold Coast Colony (including
Ashanti and the Northern Territories): Grenada, St.
Helena. St. Vincent (West Indies)
N e w Zealand. Antiirua. Bari KM Ios, Bermuda, British Guiana.
Cameroons. Cul*a. Dominica, Gambia, Jamaica,
Montserrat, Nevis. Newfoundland, Southern Nigeria
(Lagos) St. Kitts. Leeward Islands. St. Lucia. Sierra
Leone, Tolunro. Tortola. Trinidad
Parcels only—Ascension. Bahamas,
Cnited States <>f America. (Seini-Official service American
Express Company) Parcels ouly
Egypt
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: Portuiral, Roumania.
Russia in Europe (including the Grand Duchy of
Finland. Caucasus and Transcaspia (Asia)); Servia,
Switzerland, Tripoli (Africa) (Italian Offices:
Benghasi aud Tripoli) Tunis and Turkey
Letters only—Spain ...
Limit of i
Insurance ! For Insurance
on each letter] not exceeding
or parcel i £12
X. !
i For every
I additional
i £12 or
fraction
thereof
£
12(>
cp.
4
cp.
20
20
ou
3
3
120
00
120
50
6
6
8
4
3
«
-J
8
4
50
50
AuTHOErrr.
Order of High Commit.
sioner in Council No. 4t>
of tbe ISth
May,
1909
published
in
Gazette No'
U49 of
the
28th
M » *
1909.
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