New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-30


may by mutual agreement provide for 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, 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 like
manner from time to time, az the exigencies
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
the date stamp of the office at which it was
posted; and on insufficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARPICLE X. Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned without charge, monthly.
or as frequently as the regulations of the
respective offices will permit.
ARTICLE Nj. 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,
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General of New Zealand.
l hereby approve the foregoing cOnven-
ton, and in 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 the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postoffice of the United
States Of America and the general pOstoffice
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
for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLE l.
There shall be 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 aud Ireland, and
when issued in the United States, at fifty
dollars in the national paper currency Of
the latter country.
ARTICLE II.
The British Postoffice shall have power
to Tx the rates Of commission on all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States Post0fice shall have the
same power in regard to all 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 in adj
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.
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 q 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
London.
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 pOstoffice
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-
,eiving postmaster in either country shall,
in accordance with the rules established by
his postal administration, notify every such
payment to the dispatchiDg exchange office.
rhe postmaster Of New York, upon receipt
IF every notification of that kind, shall
make out and forward to the payee in the
United Kingdom, money order, payable in
sterling at the pOstOtfice in that country,
by the remitter of the order, it
being understood that the money orders
20 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.
ARTICLE VII.
BY every mail, the exchange Office of
each country shall send to the exchange Of
ice Of the other country 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
promptly forward them to the payees or to
The paying office, in conformity with the
regulations existing in the United States
for the payment of money orders. The list
to the United Kingdom shall be
by the relative letters of adj
vice Of the orders entered therein, together
with the orders themselves, as already
settled in article vi. After comparison with
the list, the advices shall be despatched to
the Offices drawn upon, and the letters en-
closing the orders posted for delivery. The
lists, by means of which each office Of ex-
change communicates with the other, shall
be according to the forms A and B an
nexed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each Office of
exchange shall be numbered cOnsecutively,
with No. l, at the beginning Of
each year, and the entries, also, in these