§ 74. Mr. A. M. SAMUELasked the Postmaster-General whether the Post Office accepts a £5 Bank of England note, plus the appropriate pence for poundage, as legal tender at a post office for £5-worth of postal orders; if so, will he state the Section of the Bank Act empowering the postmaster at Cromer, on 26th August last, to insist upon the tenderer endorsing a £5 Bank of England note with his name and address before the counter clerk would accept it in payment for £5-worth of postal orders; whether, in similar cases, refusal to accept payment by a £5 Bank of England note, unless 336W endorsed by the tenderer with his name and address, is the general practice of the Post Office; and whether the public is similarly required to write name and address on currency notes tendered in payment at post offices?
§ Mr. HARTSHORNA person tendering a Bank of England note at a post office is not required to write his name and address upon the back. I will make inquiry into the case referred to by the hon. Member.