New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-26

or as frequently as the regulations Of t.
| respective offices will permit.
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,
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
U. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH. Secretary of State.
Washington, October 5, 1870.
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 postofice of the United
States of America and the general postofice
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
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
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.
The British Postof6ce shall have power
to Tx the rates of commission ON all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States Postofice shall have the
same power in regard to all money orders
issued in the United States. Each office
shall communicate to the ether 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 detriment to the postal
revenue.
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 q 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
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
is to be paid in the United States,
and his own name and address. The re-
ceiving 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 out and forward to the payee in the
United Kingdom, q money order, payable in
sterling at the pOstOf6ce in that country,
designated by the remitter of the order, it
being understood that the money orders
so RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
stance. to the controller Of the money order
postage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange Office of
each country shall send to the exchange Of |
ice OF the other country q certified list of |
sums payable in that country, and re-
,eived 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, for I
he amount specified in the list, and shall |
forward them to the payees or to |
The paying Office, in conformity with the |
For the payment of money orders. The list |
forwarded to the United Kingdompshall be |
accompanied by the relative letters of ad- |
nee Of the orders entered therein, together |
With the orders themselves, as already |
,ettled in article vi. After comparison with |
he list, the advices shall be despatched to |
he offices drawn upon, and the letters en- |
closing the orders posted for delivery. The |
lists, by means Of which each Office of ex- |
,hor nth <hA Ill
70 according to the forms A and B an
lexed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each Office of |
shall be numbered consecutively, |
ith No. l, at the beginning Of |
ach year, and the entries, also, in these |
lists, shall have consecutive numbers, those |
q the lists from the United Kingdom com. |
lencing each calendar month with No. /. |
If each list dispatched from New York, 9
duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate |
hall, after being verified at the British !
tice, be returned to New York.
ARTICLE TX.
Should any list fail to be received in due
curse, the dispatching office shall, ON re-
Giving information to that effect, transmit,
Without delay. duplicate of the LIST, duly
ertifed as such.
Each Office of exchange shall prompt
= communicate to the other the
direction of any simple error which
may discover in the verifcation
+ the lists. When the lists shall show
Irregularities which the receiving office
hall not be able to rectify, that office shall
pply for an explanation from the
ispatching office; and this explanation
hall be afforded without delay.
ARTICLE VI
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by