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

letters, newspapers or other printed matter
received N New Zealand from such colony,
and addressed to the United States of
America, or elsewhere.
ARTICLE VII. The two Post Depar anents
may by mutual agreement provide fer the
transmission of registered articles In the
mails exchanged between the two coun-
tries.
The register fee for each article shall be
ten cents in the United States, ard -
in New Zealand
ARTICLE VIII The two Post Depart
ments shall settle by agreement between
them, all measures of detail anaisarrange-
ment required to carry this convention into
execution, and may modify the sa4ae in ike
manner from time to time, as the exigeneles
OF tha service may require.
ARGIGLE TX. Every fully prepaid letter
dispatched from one country TO- the other
shall be plainly stamped with. the words
"FaiA all" IN red ink, on th0~-right hand
upper corner of the address. Ina, addition to
tbe,date stamp of the office at which it was
posted; and on insnfiieiently Paid letters the
amount OF the deficient postage shall be in
sanibed in black ink.
ARPICLE Y. Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
Cantually returned without Charge, monthly
OF as frequently as the regulations OF the
respective offices will permit
ARTICLE XII. This convention shall come
Into operation on the first day OF December,
1870, and shall be terminaole at any time,
on a nutice by either office of six months.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washing
ton the fifth day of OCsaber, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, and in Yelling
ton. New Zealand ca the third day of
August, in the same year.
JOHN. a. j CRESWELL,
Postmaster General Of She United States.
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General of New Zealand.
| hereby approve the foregoing cOnven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed
Z. S. GRANT.
BY the President;
HAMILTON FIsa, Secretary of State.
Washington, October 5, 1870
Convention between the general postca3ee
of the United States of America and the
general postotfce of the United Kingdom
OF Great Britain and Ireland
The general postoffice of the United
States Of America and the general pas5otfiee
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, haze agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLE /.
There shall be regular exchange of
money orders between the two. countries.
The maximum of each order is fixed at ten
pouHds 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 Il.
prS. chaIi bey
to fix the rates of commission on all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States Postotiee shall have the
same power III regard to al 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 III ad-
vance bv 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 detriment 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.
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
Kingdom, 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 postottice
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
amount 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
| and his own name and address. The re
ceiying postmaster in either country shall
in accordance with the rules established by
| his postal administration, notify every such
payment to the dispatching exchange Office
| The postmaster of New York, upon receipt
| of every notification of that kind, shall
make ont and forward to the payee in tbs
! United Kingdom, a money order, payable IL
| sterling at the postotiice in that country
! designated by the remitter of the order, il
being understood that the money order;
! so RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
| stance, to the controller of the money order
office in London, and shall not be subject tt
| postage.
| ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange Office OF
each country shall send to the exchange OF
flee OF the other country certified list OF
sums payable in that country, anu re-
ceived since the despatch OF the previous
list. AS soon 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,. fol
| the amount specified in the list, and shall
| nromptlv forward them to the payees or tt
| the having office, in conformity with the
! regulations existing in the United States
| for the payment of money orders. The list
forwarded to the United Kingdom shall b.
accompanied by the relative letters of ad
vice Of the orders entered therein, togethel
with the orders themselves, as ALREADY
settled in article Vi. After comparison will
the list. the advices shall be despatched t.
the offices drawn upon, and the letters en-
closing the orders posted for delivery. 1h
| lists. by means of which each office of eX
| change communicates with the other. shall
be according to the forms and Il an
| neXed.
ARTICLE VIII.