Talk:Postal Orders of the Orange Free State

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I removed the reference to the British Empire in the following sentence:

The Orange Free State and the South African Republic were the first countries in both the British Empire and the world to declare postal orders to be legal tender as an emergency currency. At this time, it is currently difficult to distinguish between the currency issues and the normal postal notes.

Neither the Orange Free State nor the South African Republic were part of the British Empire. They were annexed to the British Empire, and ceased to exist, as a result of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1900. Booshank 12:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)