New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-02


received in New Zealand from such colony,
and addressed to the United States of
America, or elsewhere.
ARTICLE VII. The two Post Departments
may by mutual agreement provide ior the
transmission of registered articles III the
mails exchanged between the two eoun-
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 ike
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 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 insuffciently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARTICLE 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 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.
/ hereby approve the foregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal Of the United States to be affixed.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH Secretary of State.
Washington, October s. 1870.
Convention between the general postohice
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 postotfice
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 ayr
upon the following articles
ARTICLE 1.
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 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 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 OF 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 cent.
ARTICLE V.
| The service of the postal money order
system between the two countries shall bt
| performed exclusively by the agency O.
! offices of exchange. On the part OF tn
| United States, the Office of exchange shal
be New York, and ON the part of the Unite(
| Kingdom, London.
ARTICLE VI.
ANY person in the United States desiring
to remit to the United Kingdom sum o
money within the limits prescribed b.
article one, may pay il into any postotflct
in the United States designated for suci
purpose from time to time, by the Post
master General of that country. Such per
son shall. at the same time, give the mann
and address of the person to whom thu
amount is to be paid in the United King
dom and his own name and address. An,
person in the United Kingdom, desiring L
remit to the United States sum of none,
within the same limits, may pay it into an.
money order Office of the United Kingdom
| giving, at the same time, the name an,
exact address of the person to whom tn
amount is TO be paid in the United States
and his own name and address. The re
ceiving postmaster in either country shall
| in accordance with the rules established b.
his postal administration, notify every sue
payment to the dispatchiDg exchange office
\ The postmaster Of New York, upon receip
II of every notification of that kind, sha
make out and forward to the payee in tn
United Kingdom, money order, payable
sterling at the postotaice in that country
designated by the remitter of the order,
being understood that the money order
so RENTED shall be sent, in the first IL
stance. to the controller of the money orde
Office in London, and shall not be subject {
postage.
ARTICLE VII.
Bv every mail, the exchange Office c
each country shall send to the exchange o.
fee Of the other country certified list q
sums payable in that country, and re
ceived since the despatch OF the prevlou
list. As soon as any such list shall nav
reached the New York office, and bee
verified, this office shall make out lnian
money orders in favor OF the Payees 10
the amount specified in the list, ana shaI
PROMPTLY forward them to the payees or t
the paving office, in conformity with tn
repulatiOns existing in the United State
for the payment of money orders. The lis
forwarded to the United Kingdom shall b
ACCOMPANIED by the relative letters of aC
vice Of the orders entered therein, togethe
with the orders themselves, as alread
settled in article vi. After comparison wit
the list. the advices shall be despatched I
the offices drawn upon, and the letters el
closing the orders posted for delivery. tn
lists. by means of which each Office Of e.
change communicates with the Other, sha
be according to the forms A and b al
neXed.
ARTICLE VIII.
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