(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? ( )

Signature . . . . .
Date . . . . .

THE Rule is given, below, in a form which exhibits its grammatical construction--

 (a. 1) After the
expiration of 3 months
from the last day of the month of
issue, a Postal Order will be
payable only on
payment
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(b.1) with the addition (if more
than 3 months have elapsed since
of