New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-20

may by mutual agreement provide for the
| tran smission 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, as 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
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
he delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned without charge, monthly,
or 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 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
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 pOstofice Of the United Kingdom
OF Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postotfice Of the United
States OF America and the general postOfice
Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
an exchange Of money orders between the
two countries, the undersigned, duly
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARIICLEL .
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 Postoffice shall have power
to fix the rates Of commission on all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States POstOtfice 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 10y the remitter. and shall not, in any
event, be repayable. 1t is understood, more
over, that each Office is authorized to sus-
orders in case the course Of exchange, or
any other circumstance. should give rise to
abuses, or cause detriment to the postal
ARTICLE III.
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 orders.
ARTICLE II.
No money order shall include fractional
part OF penny or OF cent.
ARTICLE ".
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 postOtfice |
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
.om. and his own name and address. ANY
oerson in the United Kingdom, desiring 70
emit to the United States sum Of money
within the same limits, may pay it into any |
money order Office of the United Kingdom,
irving, at the same time, the name and |
exact address OF the person to whom the
AMOUNT is to be paid in the United States.
md his own name and address, The re-
,eiving postmaster in either country shall, |
n accordance with the rules established by |
lis postal administration. notify every such
,avment to the dispatching exchange Office.
The postmaster of New York, upon receipt |
# every notification of that kind, shall
make out and forward 20 the payee in the
United Kingdom, a money order, payable in
teriiDg at the postottce in that country,
designated by the remitter Of the order it
icing understood that the money orders
o RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
lance, to the controller of the money order
'tice in London, and shall not be subject to
,Ostage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange office of
ach country shall send 70 the exchange Of
ice OF the other country certified list Of
ums payable in that country, and re-
eived since the despatch of the previous
ist. As soon as any such list shall have
cached the New York office, and been
-e1itied, this office shall make ont inland
money orders in favor OF the payees. for
forward them to the payees or to
he paying office, IN conformity with the
egulatlons existing in the United States
or the payment of money orders. The list
orwarded to the United Kingdom shall pe
by the relative letters Of adj
ice OF the orders entered therein. together
With the orders themselves as already
ettled in article Vi. After comparison with
be list the advices shall be despatched to
he offices drawn upon, and the letters en-
losing the orders posted for delivery. The
ISIS, by means of which each office OF ex-
hange communicates with the other. shall
& according 10 the forms \ and b an
exed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each office OF
xchange shall be numbered consecutively,
with No. l, at the beginning of
ach year, and the entries, also. in these
SITS. shall have consecutive numbers. those