New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-28

Transmission Of registered articles in the
mails exchanged between the two ooun.
tries. Il
The register fee for each article shall be
ten cents in tho United States, and -
in New Zealand.
Article VIII. The two Post Depart
ments shall settle by agreement between
them, ell measurea of detail and arrange
mont required to carry this convention into
execution, and may modify the same in like
manner from time 70 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 tho 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 insuficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARFlcLE \: Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
| mutually returned without charge, monthly,
| or a. frequently as the regulations of tie
| respective Offices will permit.
ARTICLE XII. This convention shall como
! into operation on the first day of December,
1870, and shal be terminAble ut 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. 4. J. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General of New Zealand.
I hereby approve the foregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
U. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.
Washington, October 5, 1870.
Convention between the general postof6ce
of the United States of America and the
general pOstOffice of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland.
The general pestofice of the United
States of America and the general postofice
of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland, being desirous Of establishing
an exchange of money orders between tho
two countries, the undersigned, duly
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLEL
There shall be q regular exchange of
money orders between the two countries.
pounds sterling, when issued in tho 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 or rates of commission which shall
be established under this convention, and
these rates shall, in all cases, be paid in sd-
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 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 postof6ce
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 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
to the dispatching exchange Office.
The postmaster Of New York, upon receipt |
of every notification of that Kind, shall
United Kingdom, money order, payable in
sterling at the postof6ce in that country,
designated by the remitter of the order, it
being understood that the money orders
go RENTED shall be sent, in the 6Est in
stance. to the controller of the money order
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
fee Of the other country a 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 psyees, for
the amount specified in the list, and shall
forward them to the payees Or to
the paying Office, in conformity with the
regulations existing in the United States
forwarded to the United Kingdom ahall be
by the relative letters of ad-
vice Of the orders entered therein, together
With the orders themselves, a. 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 OK
change communicates with the other, shall
,e according to the forms A and B an.
lexed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each Office of
shall be numbered consecutivelv.
No. l, at the beginning Of
ZACH year, and the entries, also, in these
lists: shall have consecutive numbers, those