( ২৩e ) , Par , , 16, The addressee of an insured letter or parcel must sign both the receipt and acknowledgment presented therewith, unless the outward appearance of the cover give rise to suspicion of tampering. In such case he should return the letter or parcel un6pened, arranging with the Post Master to take delivery at the Post Office, the letter or parcel being opened there in the presence of the Post Master, and its contents entered in an inventory which will be prepared in duplicate and must be signed by the addressee. One copy of the signed inventory will be forwarded by the Post Office to the sender with the unsigned acknowledgment attached to it. o 彎 - 17. “Value payable parcels,” i.e. parcels the value of which is realized from the addressee and paid to the sender under the Postal notice of 1st November 1877, may also be insured; insurance, however, renders the prepayment of postage and the insurance fee compulsory. When a “value payable ” parcel is insured, the sender will receive from the Post Office two receipts, viz, a value payable receipt and an insurance receipt. باسکے۔ M1NT AND CURRENcy. Simla, the 19th November 1877. No. 3556.-The following resolutions are published in the Gasette of India for general information— l سیاسی-REAp again Financial Notification No. 959, dated 31st May 1869, directing the receipt of copper coin in payment of Government dues, without limit of amount, and the free supply of such coin from the Government treasuries and sub-treasuries to all applicants for amounts of the value of not less than five rupees, at the rates prescribod by sections 2 and 9 of Act XIII of 1862. Financial Resolution No. 31.73, dated 20th November 1873, removing the limit of five rupees, fixed in the notification of 81st May 1869, for the issue of copper coin from the Government treasuries and sub-treasuries. Read also the undermentioned reports regarding the depreciation in the value of copper coin in the Madras Presidency and in Mysore – From Deputy Accountant-General, Mysore, No. 2500, dated 7th August 1877. From Accountano-General, Madras, No. 5175, dated 10th August 1877. § Resolution.—The Governor-General in Council learns with regret that, notwithstanding the measures recited in the preamble, legal-tender copper coin has been circulating this year at a discount in Southern India. Whenever this occurs, injury is inflicted especially upon the poor who can least afford to bear it, and the administration is discredited. 2. His Excellency in Council is accordingly now pleased to direct the free exchange of silver for legal-tender copper coin in parcels of the nominal value of not less than two rupees, at every treasury, sub-treasury, and currency office throughout British India and in Mysore and Berar, and also, in anticipation of the consent of the Directors, at the presidency banks and their branches. Legal-tender copper coin received by the banks under this resolution will be subject to the operation of the ninth clause of the agreements with the banks; and the Comptroller-General or Accountant-General, as the case may be, will, under the fifth clause of those agreements, pass bills for the cost of remitting elsewhere any surplus legal-tender copper coin which may accumulate in any bank or branch bank. 3. Wherever large bodies of men are assembled on public works under construction for purposes of famine relief, or otherwise, the local authorities should make special arrangements to supply silver on the spot in exchange for the legil-tender copper coin which may be collected by the purveyors or foremen at such assemblages. 1 * * I 4. The object of these orders is to provent legal-tender copper coin from circulating at a discount. It is believed that, if they are carefully obeyed, such a state of things can never ՕCՇՆII, 5. If, fevertheless, legal-tender copper coin does, at any time, or anywhere, circulate at a discount, the circumstance should be immediately reported to the Local Government, and by the Local Government to the Gövernment of India, with full explanation of the supposed causes of the phenomenon, and of the measures taken to remedy the evil. 7 * [Government Gazette, 27th November 1877.]
