New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-07

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 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 Ike
manner from time to time, as the exlgencles
of the service may require.
ARTICLE X. Every fully prepaid letter
dispatched from one country TO the othcr
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 il was
posted; and on insufficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARTICLE 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 XII. This convention shall come
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, en- 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 postoffice
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 agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLEI.
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 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 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 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 postofhee
| 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 Kin gdom
! 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
| ceiying postmaster in either country shall
| in accordance with the rules established by
his postal administration. notify every sucf
payment to the dispatching exchange office
The postmaster of New York, upon receipt
| of every notification OF that KIND, sinai
make out and forward to the payee ia the
| United Kingdom, a money order, payable II
| sterling at the postotfice in that country
designated by the remitter OF the order, l
being understood that the money order
SO RENTED shall be sent, in the first IN
stance, to the controller of the money orde
office in London, and shall not be subject K
postage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange Office o
each country shall send to the exchange OF
flee of the other country Il certified list
sums payable in that country, anu re
| ceiyed since the despatch OF the prevlou
list As soon as any such list shall nav
reached the New York office, and beef
verified. this office shall make out lnlan'
money orders in favor of the payees, 10
the amount specified III the list, anu shal
promptly forward them to the payees or t
the paving office, in conformity with tn
reonlations existing in the United State
for the payment OF money orders. Inc us
forwarded to the United Kingdom shall b
ACCOMPANIED by the relative letters of az
vice Of the orders entered therein, togethe
, with the orders themselves, as alread
J settled in article vi.-After comparison wit
: the list, the advices shall be despatched
the Offices drawn upon, and the letters el
closing the orders posted for delivery. III
lists, by means of which each office OF e.
, change communicates with the other, sha
be according to the forms A and al
neXed.
ARTICLE VIII.
| Tho lists disnatched from each Office