New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-08

received In New Zealand IrOin sucn colony,
and addressed to the United States of
America, or elsewhere.
ARTICLE VII. The two Post Departments
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, as the eXlgencles
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 alf' 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 insuficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARPICLE Y. 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 XI. 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 postofhce
of the United States of America and the
general postoffice Of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postotfice of the United
States Of America and the general postoffce
Of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, being DESTROYS of establishing
an exchange of money orders between the
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLEI.
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 Postotfice 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 ad-
vance by the Tenitter, 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 a penny or OF d 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 a 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 III the United States,
and his own name and address. The re-
ceiving postmaster in either country shall,
=
his postal administration, notify every such
payment TO the dispatching exchange office.
The postmaster of New York upon receipt
of every notification of that kind, shall
make out and forward to the payee in the
United Kingdom, money order, payable IN
sterling at the pOstOthce in that country,
designated by the remitter OF the order, 1t
being understood that the money orders
SO RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
TO ha of
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
flee OF the other country certified list OF
sums payable in that country, and re-
ceived 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 ont inland
money orders in favor of the payees, for
the amount specified in the list, anu shall
promptly forward them 10 the payees or to
the paying office, i'll conformity with the
regulations existing in the United States
for the pavment of money orders. The list
| forwarded to the United Kingdom shall be
| ACCOMPANIED 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 70
| 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.
Tie lists dispatched from each Office Of