New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-27

may BY mutual agreement provide for the
transmission Of registered articles in the
mails exchanged between the two cOur-
| 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
"Paid alp 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 insutficiently 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,
respective offices will permit.
ARTICLE NJ. This convention shall come
into operation on the first day OF December.
1871, 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.
/ 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 postOfice
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 postofice
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
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARrICLEL
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.
p 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 POstOffice 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 orrates 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. It 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 a 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
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 postOfice |
in the United States designated for such |
purpose from time to time, by the Post
master General Of that country. Such per-
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, !
ceiving postmaster in either country shall, !
in accordance with the rules established by |
his postal administration, notify every such |
payment to the dispatchiDg exchange office. !
The 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,
designated by the remitter of the order, it |
being understood that the money orders
20 RENTED shall he sent, in the first in
stance. to the controller of the money order
,ffice in London. and shall not he subject to
postage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange Office of
zach 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
ist. As soon as any such list shall have
cached the New York office, and been
money orders in favor Of the payees, for
he amount specified in the list, and shall
forward them to the payees or to
he paying office, in conformity with the
equations existing in the United States
or the payment Of money orders. The list
forwarded to the United Kingdom shall be
by the relative letters of adj
rice Of the orders entered therein, together
With the orders themselves, as already |
ettled in article vi. After comparison with
he list, the advices shall be despatched to
he offices drawn upon, and the letters en-
losing the orders posted for delivery. The
lists, by means Of which each office of ex-
hange communicates with the other, shall
e according to the forms A 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
sts, shall have consecutive numbers, those