The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-22


The postmaster of New York, upon receipt of |
very notification of that kind, shall make out |
md forward to the payee in the United Kingdom |
! money order payable in sterling at the postof,
ice in that country designated by the remtter of |
the order, ii being understood that the money |
orders 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 coun-
try shall send to the exchange of the other coun
try q certified list of sums payable in that coun
try, and received since the dispatch of the pre-
vious 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 the amount specified in the list, and
shall promptly forward them to the payees or to
the paying office, in conformity with the regula-
tions existing in the United States, for the pay
ment of money orders,
The list forwarded to the United Kingdom shall
be accompanied by the relative letters of advice
of the orders entered therein, together with the
orders themselves, us already settled in article
vi. After comparison with the list, the adyices
shall be dispatched to the offices drawn upon, and
the letters inclosing the orders posted for deliye
ry.
change communicates with the other, shall be
according to the Forms A and Ii, annexed.
ARTICLE Wiz Itl-l
The lists dispatched from each office of ex-
Cndnge snail De numbered CODSecutVely, COM
mencing with No. l at the beginning of each year,
and the entries also in these lists shall have
seeutive numbers, those in the lists from the Uni
ted Kingdom commencing each calendar month
OF each list dispatched from New York, du-
picate shall be sent, which duplicate SHALL after
being verified at the British office, be returned to
New York.
ARTICLE TX.
Should any list fail to be received, in due course,
the dispatchng Office SHALL on receiving informa-
ton to that effect, transmit without delay dI-
plicate of the list, duly certified as such.
ARTICLE x.
Each office of exchange shall promptly COM
municate TO the other the correction of any sim
pie error which it may discover in the verfeation
of the lists. When the lists shall show Irregular
tiles which the receiving office shall not be able
to rectity that Office shall apply for an explana-
ton from the dispatching Office; and this expla-
nation shall be afforded without delay.
ARTICLE XII.
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by the
postal administration of the country on which
the originate rders were drawn, and in eonformi-
ty with the regulations established or to be os-
| tabshed in that country.
ARTICLE XII
At the close of each quarter three copies of an
account shall be prepared and transmitted by the
Office at London exhibiting the balance found
due on the exchanges of orders ~during the quar-
ter; which balance, after proper yerification,
shall, if due by the United States office, be paid
be paid at New York, and always in the money of
the country to which the payment is made. lfpen-
ding the settlement OF an account, one OF the two
postal administrations shall ascertain that it owes
| the other u balance exceeding one thousand
pounds sterling, the indebted administration shall
| promptly remit the approximate amount of such
balance TO the credit OF the other. This account
and the letters which accompany such intei1ne-
date remittances, shall be in accordance with the
Forms g. d, and l., annexed to this convention
ARTICLE XIII.
Until the two general post Offices shall consent
to an alteration 1t Is agreed that in all matters
of account relative to money orders which shall
result from the execution of the present conven-
ton, the pound sterling OF Great Britain shall be
considered as equivalent to four dollars and
eighty-six cents OF the gold coin of the United
States.
ARTICLE XIV
| Each exchange office shall certify its orders tc
the other in amounts designated in the denomi
nations OF the money both of the dispatching ant
receiving country at the rate OF conversion estab
lshed upon the basis of gold by article XIII o
this convention. This conversion shall be check
ed at the receiving office of exchange.
AaTIcLBxv. ITO
| All payments for money orders, whether to o.
by the public if not in gold, shah be made to thu
nearest practicable equivalent.
ARTICLE XVI.
The value, in gold coin of the United States, o
deposits in paper money made in that country
for payment in Great Britain, shall be determirl
ed ut the exchange office of New York, accordinl
to the rate of premium on gold on the day of re
|
sits. On tile other hand, the value, in United
States paper cur ency, OF money orders certified
in the lists sent from the exchange office of Lon
don to the exchange Office of New York, shall b
determined lalso at New Yorlt) in accordance witt
the premium on gold on the day Of the receipt o
such lists
ARTICLE XVII
Orders which shall not have been paid With
twelve calendar months from the month of issu
shall become void, and the sums received shall
accrue to, and remain at the disposal of tn
, | of OrCin The Rritish hal thore
, FORE enter to the credit of the United States il
i the quarterly account all money orders entere
in the lists received from the United states whic
remain unpaid at the end of the period specified
On the other hand, the United States otfc
shall, at the close of each month, transmit to th
British office, for entry in the quarterly account
) a detailed statement Of all orders included in tn
lists dispatched from the latter office, which, III
der this article, become void
: ARTICLE XVIII.
Repayment of orders to remitters shall not /
: made until an authorization for such repaymer
n shall first have been obtained by the country
: issue from the country where such orders wer
y payable, and the amounts of the repaid order
u shall be duly credited to the former country
{ the quarterly account. 1t is the province of eac
postal administration to determine the name
in which repayment to the remitter is to /
4 made.
ARTICLE XIX.
:, The orders issued by each country on the otht
shall be subject as regards payment, to the rel
' ulations which govern the payment of inland o
= ders OF the country on which they are drawn.
. ARTICLE XX SID
d The general post office in each country shall |
q authorized to adopt any additional rules (if M
4 repugnant to the toregoing) for the greater secu
ity against fraud, or for the better working
(, the system generally. All such additional rule
D however, must be promptly communicated to til
q post office of the other country.
4, ARTICLE XXI.
. The present convention shall take effect on I'll
= first day of October next, and shall continue
= force until twelve months after the date at whic
q one of the contracting parties shall have notifie
to the other its intention to terminate it.
Done III duplicate and signed in London on I'll
thirtieth day OF June, in the year of our Lor
.. one Thousand eight hundred and seventy. one an
- in Washington on the twenty seventh day
InlY. in the year of our Lord one thousand eiql