Chapter 100.
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CHAP. 100.— An act to increase the maximum amount of international money-orders from fifty to one hundred dollars.January 30, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,International money-orders. R. S., sec. 4028, p. 777, amended. That section four thousand and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States (second edition, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight), be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 4028. Maximum amount raised to one hundred dollars. The Postmaster-General may conclude arrangements with the post departments of foreign governments with which postal conventions have been or may be concluded for the exchange, by means of postal orders, of small sums of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars in amount, at such rates of exchange and compensation to postmasters and under such rules and regulations as he may deem expedient; and the expenses of establishing and conducting such systems of exchange may be paid out of the proceeds of the money-order business.
” " Sec. 2. Effect. That this act shall take effect within six months from the date of its approval by the President. Approved, January 30, 1889.