Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-12-16

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NIT without delay duplicate of the list,
duly certified as such. - 2" Ft'
ARTICLE 10.
Each Office or exchange shall promptly
communicate to the other the correction
of any simple error which it may discover
in the verif1cation of the lists. When the
lists shall show irregularities which the re-
ceiving Office shall not be able to rectify,
that office shall apply for an explanation
from the dispatching office and this eX-
PLANTATION shall be afforded without de-
lay. .a'
ARTICLE IL.
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by
the postal administration of the country
on which the original orders were drawn,
and in conformity with the regulations es-
tablished or to be established in that coun-
try.
ARTICLE II.
At the close of each quarter three copies
of an account shall be prepared and trans
mitted by the Office at London, exhibiting
the balance found due on the exchanges of
orders during the quarter which balance,
after proper verificatiOn, shall. if due by
the United States Office, be paid at Lon
don but if due by the British office, it
shall be paid at New York, and always in
the money of the country to which the
payment is made. If, pending the settle
ment of an account, one Of the two postal
administrations shall ascertain that it owes
the other balance exceeding one thou
sand pounds sterling, the indebted admin
istration shall promptly remit the approx
mate amount of such balance to the credit
of the other. This account, and theletters
which accompany such intermediate re-
mittances, shall be in accordance with the
Forms c, d, and T., annexed to this con-
vention.
ARTICLE 13. 80
Until the two general postoffices shall
consent to ali alteration, it is agreed that,
in all matters of account relative to money
orders which shall result from the execu-
ton of the present convention, the pound
sterling of Great Britain shall be consid-
cred as equivalent to four dollars and
eighty-six cents of the gold coin of the
United States.
e~af ARTICLE IA.
Each exchange office shall certify its or
ders to the other in amounts designated in
the denominations of the money both of
the dlspatching and receiving country at
the rate of conversion established upon the
basis of gold by article IL of this conven-
ton. This conversion shall be checked at
the receiving office of exchange. sna.r
ARTICLE 10.
All payments for money orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
/ rHT ARTICLE Is. asirE
The value, in gold coin of the United
States, of deposits in paper money made
in that country for payment in Great Brit
ain, shall be determined at the exchange
office of New York, according to the rate
of premium on gold on the day of receipt
at that Office of notification of such depos-
its. On the other hand, the value, in
United States paper currency, of money
orders certified in the lists sent from the
exchange office of London to the exchange
office of New York, shall be determined
(also at New York; in accordance with the
premium on gold on the day Of the receipt
of such lists. . XII f--r t-.r...-
ARTICLE IL. --.r.. r.
Orders which shall not have been paid
within twelve calendar months from the
month of issue shall become void, and the
sums received shall accrue to, and remain
at the disposal of the country of origin.
The British office shall, therefore, enter to
the credit of the United States in the
quarterly account all money orders enter
ed in the lists received from the United
States which remain unpaid at the end of
the period specified.
On the other hand, the United States of
flee shall, at the close ofeach month, trans
NIT to the British Office, for entry in the
quarterly account, detailed statement of
all orders included in the lists dispatched
from the latter office, which, under this ar
ticle, become void. eIe.l
ARTICLE Is.
Repayment of orders to remitters shall
not be made until an authorization for such
repayment shall first have been obtained
by the country of issue from the country
where such orders were payable, and the
amounts of the repaid orders shall be duly
credited to the former country in the quar-
terly account. It is the province of each
postal administration to determine the
manner in which repayment to the remit
ter is to be made.
ARTICLE 10. r-a 81. p. SEQ
The orders issued by each country on the
other shall be subject, as regards payment,
to the regulations which govern the pay
| ment of inland orders of the country on
which they are drawn. g .r
ARTICLE 20.
The general post office in each country
shall be authorized to adopt any additional
rules (if not repugnant to the foregoing)
for the greater security against fraud, or
for the better working of the system gen.
orally. All such additional rules, how
ever, must be promptly communicated to
the post office of the other country.
ARTICLE q.
The present convention shall take effect
on the first day Of October next, and shall
continue in force until twelve months after
the date at which one of the contracting
parties shall have notified to the other its
intention to terminate it.
Done in duplicate and signed in London
on the thirtieth day of June, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, and in Washington on
the twenty-seventh day Of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
| dred and seventy-one.
[sEAL.1 JNO. A. J. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
[sEAL. w. MONSELL,
Her Majesty's Postmaster General.