To get payment of dividends on Government Stock you may either go yourself to the Bank of England or sign what is called a _power of attorney_ for your banker or broker or someone you can trust to receive the dividends for you. “In order to protect you from fraud,” says the author of a “Guide to the Unprotected,” “the power of attorney should be made out for _dividends only_. That is to say, it should authorise the person who is to act on your behalf only to receive dividends and not to sell the stock.” After a power of attorney has been obtained no new power for dividends is requisite by reason of your increasing or lessening the amount of your holding in the same description of stock. Besides payment personally at the Bank of England, stockholders can have their dividends transmitted by post at their own risk, and under certain regulations. In selling stock you can manage the transaction, just as you effected the purchase, either through your banker or your own broker. We mentioned that Government Stock to a limited amount could be bought through the Post Office. When this is done the Post Office relieves you of all trouble in purchasing and in collecting dividends. The amount invested must not be less than £10, and not more than £100 of stock can be credited to an account in any one year ending the 31st of December, and when you have bought through the Post Office £300 of stock in all you can invest no more in this way, but must go to a regular broker. Suppose you wish through the Post Office to buy £50 worth of “Consols,” you fill up a form of application to be had at any post office, and hand over the necessary amount to the postmaster. Of course the latter part of the performance will be unnecessary if you have the sum already lying at your credit in the Savings Bank. You then forward the form of application, together with your deposit book, to the head office. In a few days your book will be returned and you will find yourself debited with the cost of the stock at the market price. Suppose “Consols” are selling at £102, then your fifty pounds worth will cost you a half of that, and there will be an entry in your book as a “withdrawal” of “Investment £50 Consols, £51,” and besides that will be entered “Commission, 1s. 3d.” The book will be accompanied by a “Certificate of investment in Government Stock,” as follows:— “This is to certify that £50 Consolidated £3 per Cent. Bank Annuities has been placed on the Savings Banks Investment Account of the National Debt Commissioners, that the same has been credited in the Government Stock Register of the Post Office Savings Bank to ______ of ______, and that her deposit account has been charged with the sum of £51 and 1s. 3d., being the price of the said stock at £102 per cent., and commission respectively.”