“1. To take all means to prevent the loss of a money-order.
“2. Never to send the order in the same letter with the information required on payment thereof.
“3. To be careful, on taking out a money-order, to state correctly the Christian name, as well as the surname, of the person in whose favor it is to be drawn.
“4. To see that the name and address of the person taking out the money-order are correctly made known to the person in whose favor it is to be drawn.
“Neglect of these instructions will risk the loss of the money, besides leading to delay and trouble in obtaining payment.
“Under no circumstances can payment of an order be demanded on the day of its issue.”
If the money is not called for within ninety days after the date of the order, there will be difficulty in obtaining it. The regular form of the order must not be clipped or mutilated. When the payee of an order desires the same to be paid to any other person, he must fill up and sign a form of indorsement, and furnish such second party with the information required to obtain payment of his order, who upon receiving payment must sign his name upon the face of the order. More than one indorsement is prohibited by law, and will render the order invalid and not payable.
It is to be regretted that the system had not been laid down so as to come within the comprehension of all, and so simplified that the explanations from the clerks would not tend to involve it in a greater mystery. It reminds us strongly of a passage in Haddock’s Chancery Practice, vol. 1, p. 125, intended as a definition of law:—
“When a person is bound to do a thing, and he does what may enable him to do the thing, he is supposed in equity to do it with the view of doing what he is bound to do.”