New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-16

| America, or elsewhere.
ARTICLE VII. The two Post Department
may by mutual agreement provide for tn
transmission Of registered articles in tn
mails exchang ed between the two coun
tries.
The register fee for each article shall b.
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 int
execution, and may modify tie same in like
manner from time to time, as the eXigencie!
OF the service may require.
| ARTICLE TX. Every fully prepaid letter
dispatched from one country to the o,hc,
shall be plainly stamped with the words
| Pad aIl' 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 insutficiently paid letters the
| amount OF the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink
ARPICLE \. Dead letters, which can not
be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned without charge, monthly,
OF as frequently as the regulations Of the
respective offices will permit.
ARTICLE NJ. 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. CHESWELL,
Postmaster General Of the United States
JULIUS LLOYD,
Postmaster General of New Zealand.
hereby approve the foregoing conyen-
ton, AID il 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 ), 1870.
Convention between the general postoffce
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 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 tie 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 i'll the national paper currency Of
the latter country.
ARTICLE II.
The British Posto.fice shall have power
to tx 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 eases. be paid in adj
vance by the remitter, and shall not in any
event, oe 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 or the total amount of such orders.
ARTICLE ".
No money order shall! include a 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
lt1ces OF exchange. On the part Of the
United States, the Office Of exchange shall
ne New York, and on the part of the United
Kingdom, London.
ARTICLE VI
Any person in the United States desiring
20 remit 20 the United Kingdom sum Vi
money within the limits prescribed by |
article one. may pay it into any postotfice |
n 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 |
md address OF the person to whom the |!
amount is TO be paid in the United King !
ION. aud his own name and address. ANY |
Ierson in the United Kingdom. desiring to
emit to the United States sum of money
within the same limits, may pay it into any |
money order.otfice of the United Kin gdolu. !
giving, at the same time. the name and !
xact address OF the person TO whom the |
mou.lt is to be paid in the United States, |
md his own maine and address. The re-
eIvlnG postmaster in either country shall. |
n accordance with the rules established by !
rs postal administration, notify every such
,ayment to the dispatching xthange office.
The postmaster of New York, upon receipt |
Il every notification Of that KIND. shall |
make out and forward to the payee in the |
nlted Kingdom, a money order, PAYABLE in
terling at the posto;iice in that country,
designated by the remitter OF TIE order it
icing understood that the money orders
o RENTED shall be sent, in TIE first in
"a IN. Ep of. no |
tiice in London, and shall not be subject to
ostage.
ARTICLE VII.
By every mail, the exchange office Of
ach country shall send to the exchange Of
&c OF the other country certified list OF
uMs payable in that country. an! re-
eived since the despatch OF the previous
St As soon as any such list shall have
cached the New York office, and been
erihed, this office shall make ont inland
honey orders in favor of the payees. for
forward them to the payees or to
he paving office, in conformity with the
equations existing in the United States
)r the payment of money orders The list |
)rwarded to the United Kingdom shall be
by the relative letters Of adj
ice Of the orders entered therein, together
it'll the orders themselves, as already
titled in article vi. After comparison with
lie list, the advices shall he despatched 70
re Offices drawn Upou ard the letters en-
osing the orders posted for delivery. The |
sts. 10y means of which each office of ex-
lange communicates with .he other shall
? according to the forms 4 and B an
.xeJ.
ARTICLE VIZ.
The lists dispatched from each office Of
lchaIge shall be numbered cons~cutiyely,
with No. l, at the beginning Of
'ch year, and the entries, also, IN these