Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-12-16

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERI-
CA AND THE GENERAL POST OF
FICE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE
LAND. .-s .rer OBI. sr,r
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 es-
tablishing an exchange of money oders
between the two countries, the under
signed, duly authorized for that purpose,
have agreed upon the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
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 Ire
land, and when issued in the United
States, at fifty dollars in the national paper
currency of the latter country. -.-.- .,-.rr
ARTICLE =.
The British post office shall have power
to fix the rates of commission on all
money orders issued in the United King
dom, 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
er its tariff of charges or rates of commits
sion which shall be established under this
convention, and those rates shall, in all
cases, be paid by the remitter, and shall
not, in any event, be repayable. 1t is un-
derstood, moreover, that each office is au-
thorized to suspend temporarily, the ex-
change of money orders in case the course
of exchange or any other circumstance
should give rise to abuses or cause detri-
ment to the postal revenue.
ARTICLE 3.
Each country shall keep the commission
charged on all money orders issued within
il, but shall pay to the other country one
per cent. on the total amount of such or
ders.
ARTICLE 4.
No money order shall include frac-
tional part of penny or of cent.
ARTICLE 5.
The service of the postal noney-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 6.
Any person in the United States desir-
ing to remit to the United Kingdom sum
of money within the limits prescribed by
article l, may pay it into any post office in
the United States designated for such pur-
pose from time to time, by the postmaster
general of that country. Such person
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 de-
string 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 ad-
dress.
The receiving postmaster in either coun-
try shall, in accordance with the rules es-
tablished by his postal administration, no.
tify every such payment to the dispatch
ing exchange office.
The postmaster of New York, upon re-
ceipt of every notification of that kind,
shall make out and forward to the payee
in the United Kidgdom 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 so remitted shall be sent, in the first
instance, to the controller of the money
order office in London, and shall not be
subject to postage.
ARTICLE Z.
BY every mail the exchange office of
each country shall send to the exchange
office of the other country certificate list
of the sums payable in that country, and
received since the dispatch of the previous
list.
AS soon as any such list shall have reach
ed the New York office been verified, this
office shall make out inland money orders
in favor of the payees for theamount spec
flied in the list, and shall promptly for
ward them to the payees or paying office,
in conformity with the regulations exist
ing in the United States for the payment
of money orders.
The list forwarded to the United King
dom shsll be accompanied by the relative
| letters of advice of the orders entertained
therein, together with the orders them
selves, as already settled in Article 6. AT
| ter comparison with the list, the advices
shall be dispatched to the Offices drawn
upon, and the letters inclosing the orders
| posted for delivery.
The lists, by means of which each office
OF exchange communicates with the other,
shall be according to the Forms A and B,
annexed.
Igu ARTICLE s.
The lists dispatched from each office OF
exchanges shall be numbered consecutively,
| commencing with No. / at the beginning