The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-18

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
The General Post Office of the United States |
of America and the General Post Office of the |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
being DESTROYS of establishing an exchange OF
money orders between the two countries, the mn |
dersigned, duly authorized for that purpose, have |
agreed upon the following articles
ARTICLE 1.
There shall I've regular exchange of money or |
ders between the two countries. The maximum
of each order is fixed at ten pounds sterling, when
issued in the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
States, at fifty dollars in the national paper cur
rency of the latter country.
ARTICLE H.
The British Post Office shall have power to fix
the rates of commission on all money orders is
sued in the United Kingdom and the United
States Post Office shall have the same power in
regard to all money orders issued in the United
States. Each office shall communicate to the 9TH
CIR 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 adj
vance by the remitter and shall not in any event,
be repayable. 1t is understood, moreover, that
each office is authorized to suspend, temporarily,
the exchange of money orders in case the course
of exchange, or any other circumstance, should
give rise to abuses or cause detrment to the
postal revenue. rH. .rls
ARTICLE
Each country shall keep the commission chang
ed on all money orders issued within it, but shall
pay to the other country per cent on the to-
tai amount of such orders.
ARTICLE a'
No money order shall include fractional part
of penny or of q cent.
ARTICLE V.
The service of the postal moneyrorter system
between the two countries shall be performed ex-
clusively by the agency of offices of exchange
On the part of the United States the Office of ex-
change shall be New York, and on the part of
the United Kingdom, London.
il ARTICLE vi.
ANY person in the United States desiring to
nit to the United Kingdom sum of money with
in the limits prescribed by Article /, may pay it
into any post Office in the United States designa
ted for such purpose from time to time BY the
Postmaster General of that country. Such per.
son shall, at the same time, give the name and
address of the person to whom the amount is to
be paid in the United Kingdom, and his own
name and address. Any person in the United
Kingdom desiring to remit to the United States
4 sum of money within the same limits may pay
it into any money-order office of the United King
dom, giving at the same time, the name and ex-
act address of the person to whom the amount is
to be paid in the United States, and his own name
and address. The receiving postmaster in either
country shall, in accordance with the rules estab-
lshed by his postal administration notify every
such payment to the dispatching exchange office.
every notification of that kind, shall make out
and forward to the payee in the United Kingdom
money order, payable in sterling at the post
Office in that country, designated by the remitter
of the order, it being understood that the money
orders RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
stance to the controller of the money order office
in London and shall not be subject to postage.
ARTIcLEyI
By every mail, the exchange office of each coun-
try shall send to the exchange office of the other
country certified list Of sums payable in that
country, and received since the dispatch of the
previous list. As as any such list shall have
reached the New York Office and been verified,
this office shall make out inland money-orders in
favor of the payees, for the amount specified in
. the list, and shall promptly forward them to the
payees or to the paying office, in conformity with
the regulations existing in the United States fol
the payment of money orders. The list forward
ed to the United Kingdom shall be accompanied
by the relative letters of advice of the orders en-
tered therein, together with the orders them
selves, rs already settled in Article VI. After
comparison with the list, the advices shall be
dispatched to the offices drawn upon and the
letters enclosing the orders posted for delivery
The lists, by of which each office of ex-
change communicates with the other, shall bt
according 10 the Forms A and II annexed.
ARTICLE VII.
The lists dispatched from each office of ex,
change shall be numbered consecutiyely, com
mencng with No. !, at the beginning of each
year. and the entries, also, in these lists, shall
have consecutive numbers those in the lists
from the United Kingdom commencing each cal
endar month with No. /. OF each list dispatch
ed from New York, duplicate shall be sent
which duplicate shall, after being verified at thu
British office, be returned to New York
ARTICLE TX.
Should any list fail to be received in due course
the dispatching office shall, receiving informa
ton to that effect, transmit without delay 6
duplicate OF the list, duly certified as such.
ARTIcLEx
Each Office of exchange shall promptly colnmu
nicate to the other the correction of any simpl,
error which it may discover in the verifcaton o
the lists. When the lists shall show Irregular
ties which the receiving office shall not be able t,
rectify, that office shall apply for an explanation
from the dispatching office and this explanation
shall be afforded without delay.
ARTICLE VI.
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by tn
postal administration of the country on which
original orders T ypn n in fprnni
ty with the regulations established or to be es
tablished in that country.
ARTICLE
At the close of each quarter, three copies of az
account shall be prepared and transmitted by til.
office at London, exhibiting the balance fount
due on the exchanges of orders during the quar-
SHALL if due by the United States office, be pait
at London but if due by the British Office, i
shall be paid at New York, and always in thu
money of the country to which the payment il
made. If, pending the settlement of an account
one OF the two postal administrations shall as
ing one thousand pounds sterling the indebtet
administration shall promptly remit the approx
mate amount of such balance to the credit of tn,
other. This account. and the letters which ac
company such intermediate Iemittances shall b,
in accordance with the Forms C, d, and L, an
nexed to this convention.
ARTICLE XIII. III
Until the two General Post Offices shall con
sent to alteration, it is agreed that in all mat
ters of account relative to money orders which
shall result from the execution OF the presen
convention, the pound sterling of Great Britain
shall be considered as equivalent to four dollar
and eighty-six cents of the gold coin of the Uni
ted States.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each exchange office shall certify its orders tC
the other, in amounts designated in the denomi
nations of the money both of the dispatching ant
receiving country, at the rate of conversion es
tablished upon the basis of gold by Article XII
OF this convention. This conversion shall b,
checked at the receiving office of exchange.
ARTICLE XIV.
All payments for money-orders, whether to OF
by the public, if not in gold, shall be made tho
nearest practicable equivalent.
ARTICLE XVI.
The value, in gold coin of the United States O
deposits in paper money made in that country fol
payment in Great Britain, shall be determined Al
the exchange office of New York, according IL
the rate of premium gold, on the day of re
ceipt at that office of notification of such depo
sits. On the other hand the value. in United
States paper currency, of money-ortlers certified
in the lists sent from the exchange office of Lon
don to the exchange office of New York, shall be
determined (also at New York; in accordance
with the premium on gold on the day of the re-
cept of such lists.
ARTICLE XVII
Orders which shall not have been paid within
twelve calendar months from the month of issue
shall become void, and the sums received shall
accrue to and remain at the disposal of the eoun
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