The Rule, for Commissions chargeable on overdue Postal Orders, is given in the “Post Office Guide,” in these words, (it is here divided, for convenience of reference, into 3 clauses):—
“(a) After the expiration of 3 months from the last day of the month of issue, a Postal Order will be payable only on payment of a Commission, equal to the amount of the original poundage
“(b) with the addition (if more than 3 months have elapsed since the said expiration) of the amount of the original poundage for every further period of 3 months which has so elapsed
“(c) and for every portion of any such period of 3 months over and above every complete period.”
You are requested to answer the following questions, in reference to a Postal Order for 10/. (on which the ‘original poundage’ would be 1d.) issued during the month of January, so that the 1st ‘period’ would consist of the months February, March, April; the 2nd would consist of the months May, June, July; and the 3rd would consist of the months August, September, October.
(1) Supposing the Rule to consist of clause (a) only, on what day would a ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(2) What would be its amount? [ ]
(3) Supposing the Rule to consist of clauses (a) and (b), on what day would the lowest ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(4) What would be its amount? [ ]
(5) On what day would a larger ‘Commission’ (being the sum of 2 ‘Commissions’) begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(6) What would be its amount? [ ]
(7) On what day would a yet larger ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(8) What would be its amount? [ ]
(9) Taking the Rule as consisting of all 3 clauses, in which of the above-named 3 ‘periods’ does clause (c) first begin to take effect? [ ]
(10) Which day, of any ‘period,’ is the earliest on which it can be said that a ‘portion’ of the ‘period’ has elapsed? [ ]
(11) On what day would the lowest ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(12) What would be its amount? [ ]
(13) On what day would a larger ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(14) What would be its amount? [ ]
(15) On what day would a yet larger ‘Commission’ begin to be chargeable? [ ]
(16) What would be its amount? [ ]
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The Rule is given, below, in a form which exhibits its grammatical construction:—