158 Interest . on postal savings bank deposits. APPENDIX B savings bank in the Philippine Islands and de posited as if they were money of the amount represented by the face value of the stamps, and the procedure for making such deposits shall be the same as that provided for deposits of money, in section eight of this Act. The chief of the postal savings bank division shall cancel all stamps received for deposit at the time the de posit entry is made to the depositor’s credit. (d) Employees of the Postal Savings Bank, and all persons intrusted with the handling or custody of postal savings bank stamps, whether said stamps shall have been canceled or not, shall be held responsible for them in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were Insular money of a value equal to the face value of the stamps. (e) Uncanceled postal savings bank stamps' shall be redeemable at par in postage stamps at the office of the chief of the postal savings bank division. Sec. 10. Interest at two and one-half per centum per annum shall be allowed on all de posits in the Postal Savings Bank until practical experience shall demonstrate that a higher rate can safely be guaranteed, subject to the follow ing limitations : (a) In the reckoning of interest, the day upon which the deposit was entered to the credit of the depositor upon the books of the chief of the postal savings bank division shall be considered as the date of the deposit. (b) Money to the credit of any depositor in excess of one thousand pesos shall not bear in terest, except in the case of deposits made by charitable and benevolent societies as provided in paragraph (c) in section three, in which case deposits in excess of two thousand pesos shall not bear interest.