New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13

! ARIXCL6 H. i uC tWO USV ACphA tuCA
may by mutual agreement provide for Il
transmission of registered articles in Il
mails exchanged between the two cOul
! tries.
The register fee for each article shall +
ten cents in the United States, and -
in New Zealand.
ARTICLE VIII. The two Post Depar
ments shall settle by agreement betwee
them, all measures Of detail and arrang'
ment required to carry this convention int
execution, and may modify the same in lik
manner from time to time, as the exigencie
| of the service may require.
ARTICLE TX. Every fully prepaid lette
! dispatched from one country to the othc
| shall be plainly stamped with the word
paid all' in red ink, on the right ham
upper corner of the address, in addition t
the date stamp Of the Office at which it wa
posted; and on insutiiciently paid letters til
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARPICLE \. Dead letters. which can no
be delivered from whatever cause, shall b.
mutually returned without charge, monthly
or as frequently as the regulations Of tn
respective offices Will permit.
ARTICLE ri. This convention shall come
into operation ON the first day OF December
1870, and shall be terminable at any time
on notice by either Office of six months.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washing
ton the fifth day of October, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, and in yelling
ton. New Zealand, ON the third day Of
August, in the same year.
JOHN. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General of New Zealand
l hereby approve the foregoing conven-
ton. and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
U. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.
Washington, October 5, 1870.
Convention between the general pOstOffice
OF the United States of America and the
general postoffice of the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postotiice of the United
States OF America and the general pOstOt6ce
OF the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland being DESTROYS Of establishing
an exchange Of money orders between the
two countries, the undersigned, duly
authorized for that purpose. have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLE I.
There shall be a regular exchange of
money orders between the two countries.
The maximum of each order is fixed at ten
pounds sterling, when issued in the United
of Great Britain and Ireland, and
when issued in the United States, at fifty
dollars in the national paper currency Of
the latter country.
ARTICLE II.
The British POstOtfice shall have power
to tx the rates Of commission on all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States Postoffice shall have the
same power in regard to all money orders
issued in the United States. Each office
shall communicate to the other its tariff of
charges or rates of commission which shall
be established under this convention, and
-hese rates shall, in all cases, be paid in ad-
rance by the remitter, and shall not, in any
event, be repayable. 1t is understood, more
over. that each office is authorized to sus-
'end. temporarily, the exchange of money
orders in case the course Of exchange, or
my other circumstance. should give rise to
abuses. or cause detriment to the postal
evenue.
Each country shall keep the commission
harged on all money orders issued within
t. but shall pay to the other country one
'er cent on the total amount Of such orders.
ARTICLE ".
No money order shall include fractional
art OF penny or Of a cent.
ARTICLE V.
The service of the postal money order
ystem between the two countries shall be
reformed exclusively by the agency of
tiices OF exchange. On the part Of the
United States, the Office of exchange shall
re New York. and on the part of the United
Kingdom. London.
ARTICLE VI.
Any person in the United States desiring
o remit to the United Kingdom sum OF
honey within the limits prescribed by
rticle one, may pay it into any postOffice
4 the United States designated for such
urpose from time to time. by the Post
1aster General of that country. Such per-
on shall, at the same time, give the name
nd address of the person to whom the
mount is to be paid in the United King
ON. and his own name and address. ANY
erson in the United Kingdom, desiring to
emit to the United States sum of money
'ithin the same limits, may paw it into any
honey order office of the United Kingdom.
living, at the same time, the name and
xact address OF the person to whom the |
mount is to be paid in the United States,
nd his own name and address. The re-
ewing postmaster in either country shall.
accordance with the rules established by |
is postal administration, notify every such |
ayment to the dispatchiDg exchange office.
he postmaster of New York, upon receipt !
every notification of that kind, shall |
AXE out and forward to the payee in the |
nlted Kingdom, money order, payable in
erllDg at the postotfice in that country. |
esignated by the remitter of the order, it |
eing understood that the money orders |
RENTED shall be sent, in the first in |
ance, to the controller of the money order
ice in London, and shall not be subject to
,stage
ARTICLE VII.
by every mail, the exchange Office of
lcli country shall send to the exchange Of
'e OF the other country certified list of
inns payable in that country. and re-
lived since the despatch OF the previous
It. AS soon as any such list shall have
ached the New York office, and been
,rlfled, this office shall make out inland
oney orders in favor Of the pavees, for
g amount specified in the list, and shall
omptiy forward them to the payees or to
G paying office, in conformity with the
gulatlons existing in the United States
the payment of money orders. The list
rwarded to the United Kingdom shall be
cOmpanied by the relative letters of adj
&c OF the orders entered therein, together
tn the orders themselves, as already
tiled in article vi. After comparison with
list, the advices shall be despatched to
ohces drawn upon, and the letters en-
,slng the orders posted for delivery. The
Is, by means of which each office of ex-
ange communicates with the other, shall
according to the forms A and B an
xed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each office of
change shall be numbered consecutively,
with No. l, at the beginning Of 1
ch year and tho entries also in fLnso |