New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-06

letters, newspapers, or other printed matter
received in New Zealand from such colony,
and addressed to the United States OF
America, or elsewhere.
ARTICLE VII. The two Post Departments
may by mutual agreement provide for the
Transmission of registered articles ID the
mails exchanged between the two conn-
tries. m
The register fee for each article shall be
ten cents in the United States, and -
in New Zealand.
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 Ike
manner from time to time, as the exigencles
of the service may require.
ARTICLE TX. Every fully prepaid letter
dispatched from one country to the other
shall be plainly stamped with the words
''Paid all" in red ink, on the right hand
upper corner of the address, in addition to
posted; and on insuficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in.
scribed in black ink.
ARPICLE Y. Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned withoutcharge, monthly,
or as frequently as the regulations OF the
respective Offices will permit.
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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 ID 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 tho United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postoffice of the United
States Of America and tho general postofice
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, being desirous 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 b.
There shall be a reg hlar exchange of
money orders between tile two countries.
The maximum of each order is fixed aTten
pounds sterling, when isa sued 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 H.
The British Postotfce shall have power
to fix the rates of comm ssion ON all money
orders issued in the Uni ted Kingdom; and
the United States PostotEce shall have the
same power in regard to all money orders
issued in the United States. Each office
shall communicate to tho other It's tarl1 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 ID understood, more
over, that each office is authorized TO sus-
pend, temporarily, the exchange OF money
orders in case tie e6HfE OF exchange or
any other circumstance, should give rise to
abuses, or cause detriIh ent TO the postal
revenue.
ARTICLE III.
Each country shall k eep the commission
charged on all money orders issued within
it, but shall pay to the other country one
per cent on the total am bunt OF such orders
ARTICLE ".
No money order shall Include fractional
part OF a penny or OF dent.
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. Oh the part OF the
| United States the otficb of exchange shall
| be New York. and on tb e part of the United
| Kingdom London.
ARTICLE VI.
ANY person in the United States desiring
| to remit TO the United Kingdom sum o.
| money within the Ii Glts prescribed by
| article one, may pay II into any postofnct
| in the United States designated Tor sucf
| 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 klng
! dom. and his own namd and address. Any
| person in the United Kingdom, desiring Il
remit 10 the United States a sum of none,
within the same limits, may pay it into an.
money order office of the United Kingdom
| giving, at the same time, the name ant
| exact address OF the person to whom tn
amount is to be paid iii the United States
| and lis own name and address. The re
ceiving postmaster in either country shall
in accordance with the rules established b,
his postal adminlstratlb n, notify every sucl
payment to the dispat4hipg exchange office
| The postmaster of New York, upon recelp
! of every notification of that kind, shall
make ont and forward to the payee In tn
United Kingdom, a money order, payable Il
sterling at the postofhce III that country
DESIGNATED by the reDlitter of the order, j
being understood that the money order
so RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
stance. TO the controller of the money Orde
| Office in London, and shall not be subject {
postage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange office o
each country shall send to the exchange OF
flee OF the other country a certified list o
sums PAYABLE in that country, and re
ceived since the despatch OF the preylou
list As soon as any such list snail nav
reached the New York office, and peel
verified, this office shall make out lnlan'
money orders in favor of the payees, TO
the amount specified in the list, and sinai
promutIv forward them to the payees or t
the paving office, in conformity with tn
regulations existing in the United State
for the payment of money orders. Inc MS
forwarded to the United Kingdom shall b
ACCOMPANIED BY the relative letters of az
vice Of the orders entered therein, togethe
with the orders themselves, as alread
settled in article Vi. After comparison wit
the list, the advices shall be despatched I
the offices drawn upon, and the letters el
closing the orders posted for delivery. I'll
lists. BY means of Which each office of e,
change communicates with the other, sha
be according to the forms A anu d al
nexed.
ARTICLE VIII.