New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-23

| MUTUALLY returned W1tlOuG charge, monthly,
or as frequently as the regulations Of tie
respective offices will permit
| ARTICLE III. This convention shall come
into operation on the first day of December
| 1870, and shall be terminable at any time,
on a 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
JOHN. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General Of New Zealand.
l hereby approve the foregoing conven.
tion 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 p0stofice
of the United States of America and the
general postOfice of the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general postofice of the United
States Of America and the general postofice
of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland, being DESTROYS Of establishing
two countries, the undersigned, duly
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
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 PostOfiice shall have power
to Tx the rates of commission on all money
orders issued in the United Kingdom; and
the United States Postofice 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 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
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
t,a<r tvr,o ~ ~ h.
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 q 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-
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
person in the United Kingdom, desiring to
remit to the United States a 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,
and his own name and address. The re-
ceiving postmaster in either country shall,
in accordance with the rules established by
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 pOstoffice in that country,
designated by the remitter Of the order, it
being understood that the money orders
SO RENTED shall be sent, in the first in
stance. to the controller Of the money order
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 out inland
money orders in favor of the payees, for
the amount specified in the list, and shall
the paying office, in conformity with the
regulations existing in the United States
for the payment Of money orders. The list
to the United Kingdom shall be
by the relative letters of ad-
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 to
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 WIN.
The lists dispatched from each Office of
exchange shall be numbered consecutively,
No. l, at the beginning Of
each year, and the entries, also, in these
lists, shall have consecutive numbers, those
IN the lists from the United Kingdom COM
mencing each calendar month with No. /.
Of each list dispatched from New York, q
duplicate 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 dispatching office shall, on re-
ceiving information to that effect, transmit,
without delay, q duplicate of the list, duly |
certified as such.
Each office of exchange shall prompt
" communicate to the other the |
correction Of any simple error which
it may discover in the verifcation
Of the lists. When the lists shall show
which the receiving office
shall not be able to rectify, that office shall
Office; and this explanation
shall be afforded without delay.
ARTICLE H.
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by
kha n1latal administration of the country ON