New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-31

| letters, newspapers, gor other printed matter
received in New Zealand from such colony
| and addressed TO the United States OF
| America, or elsewhere. { = Z tf.AA
| ARTICLE VII. The two Post Departments
may by mutual agreement provide for the
! transmission of registered articles in the
mails exchanged between the two coun.
| tries ~- r-.t .s. 81 s-,-ss
| The register fee for each article shall be
ten cents in the United States, and -
1 in New Zealand.
A. ARTICLE VIII. The two Post Depart-
ments shall settle by agreement between
| them. all measures Of detail and arrange
ment required to carry this convention into
execution. and may modify the same in like
manner from time to time, as the exigencies
| of the service may require. .ils
ARTICLE TX. Every fully prepaid letter
| dispatched from one country to, the other
shall be plainly stamped with the words
| s'Paid alp in red ink, on the right hand
| upper corner of the address, in addition to
| the date stamp of the Office at which it was
posted; and on insufficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARTICLE X. Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned without charge, monthly,
or as frequently as the regulations of the
respective offices will permit. -5
y ARTICLE XII. 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, j
Postmaster General of the United States
JULIUS LLOYD. g.,
Postmaster General of New Zealand.
81 hereby approve the foregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be, affixed
ttIG U. S. GRANT. j
BY the President:
~ HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.
Washington, October 5, 1870. .e.-.5
Convention between the general postofice
of the United States of America and the
general postofice of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general -pestefiee of the United
States of America and the general postoffice
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain i
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 1.
There shall be regular exchange of
money orders between the two countries.
'Fhe maximum Of each order is fixed at ten
pounds sterling, when issued in the United
Kingdom 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.
ehon hoy
to fix 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
these rates shall, in all cases, be paid in ad-
vance by the remitter, and shall not, in any
event, be repayable. 1t is understood, more |
over, that each Office is authorized to sus-
pend, temporarily, the exchange of money
orders in case the course of exchange, or |
any other circumstance, should give rise to |
abuses, or cause detrimeut to the postal |
revenue.
ARTICLE III.
Each country shall keep the commission |
charged on all money orders issued within |
it, but shall pay to the other country one |
per cent on the total amount of such orders. |
- ARTICLE ".
No money order shall include fractional !
part Of penny or of cent. d.
ARTICLE V.
The service of the postal money order |
system between the two countries shall be
performed exclusively by the agency of |
offices of exchange. On the part of the |
United States, the Office of exchange shall
be New York; and on the part of the United
London. -''
ARTICLE VI.
Any person in the United States desiring
to remit to the United Kingdom sum of
money within the limits prescribed by
article one, may pay it into any postofice
in the United States designated for such
purpose from time to time, by the Post
master General of that country. Such per-
son shall, at the same time, give the name
and address of the person to whom the
is TO be paid in the United King
dom, and his own name and address. Any
person in the United Kingdom, desiring to
remit to the United States sum of money
within the same limits, may pay it into any
money order office of the United Kingdom,
giving, at the same time, the name and
exact address of the person to whom the
amount is to be paid in the United States
1
,elving postmaster in either country SHALL |
n accordance with the rules established by
lis postal administration, notify every such
payment to the dispatching exchange Office.
The postmaster of New York, upon receipt
If every notification of that kind, shall
make out and forward to the payee in the
United Kingdom, a money order, payable in
terliDg at the postof6ce in that country,
designated by the remitter of the order, it
icing understood that the money orders
o. RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
tance, to the controller of the money order
ttice in London, and shall not be subject to |
hostage. +;
ARTICLE VII.
BY every mail, the exchange Office of {
ach country shall send to the exchange Of .
ice OF the other country a certified list of {
ums payable In that country, and re-
elved since the despatch of the previous |
lst. As soon as any such list shall have
cached the New York office, and been
eritied, this office shall make out inland
money orders in favor of the payees, for
he amount specified in the list, and shall
promptly forward them to the payees or to
he paying office, in conformity with the
equations existing in the United States
Or the payment OF money orders. The list
Drwarded to the United Kingdom shall be
ccompanled by the relative letters of adj
ice of the orders entered therein, together
nth the orders themselves, as already
ettled in article vi. After comparison with
ne hist, the advices shall be despatched to
ne offices drawn upon, and the letters en-
losing the orders posted for delivery. The
SITS, by means of which each office of ex-
hange communicates with the other, shall
e according to the forms A and an
exed.
ARTICLE VIII. l.
The lists dispatched from each office of :
xchange shall be numbered consecutively,