Excerpt from The United States Postal Money-Order System: A Survey of the System for the Purpose of Ascertaining Its Condition and Advancing Its Efficiency and Economical Administration One of the means provided by the act approved J une 13, 1898, to meet expenditures caused by the Spanish War was the collection of a tax of two cents on each domestic order issued. The collections began on July 1, 1898, and ceased June 30, 1901, by repeal of the law. During this period the system collected for and paid to the Internal Revenue service without any expense whatever to the Treasury Department and with practically none to the Post Office Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.