§ MR. MACLIVERasked the Postmaster General, If he is aware that the bankers at Plymouth, including the Branch Bank of England, refuse to take crossed postal notes from their customers, on account of the trouble and delay caused in obtaining their value from the Post Office authorities; and, whether postal notes, representing money received by the Post Office, should not be paid to the holders on presentation at any local office?
§ MR. FAWCETT,in reply, said, that he believed there wore six banks in Plymouth, and that out of those, three, including the Branch Bank of England, had entered into an arrangement with the Post Office enabling them to receive payment of postal notes immediately. For the purpose of security, however, it had boon arranged that when a postal order had the name of a particular money-order office endorsed upon it, that order should only be paid at that office, unless presented by a banker.