New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-29

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transmission of registered articles in the
mails EXCHANGED between the two eoun-
tries. .ra-
The register fee for each article shall be
ten cents in the United States, and -
in New Zealand, ,.rta
ARTICLE viii. The two Post Depart
ments shall settle by agreement between
them, all measures Of detail and arfsngo-
ment required to carry this convention into
execution, and may modify the same in like
manner from time to time, as the exigencies
OF the service may require. sIy
ARTICLE TX. Every fully prepaid letter
dispatched from one country to the other
shall be plainly stamped with the 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 ihsuficiently paid letters the
amount of the deficient postage shall be in
scribed in black ink.
ARPIcLE X. Dead letters, which can not
mutually returned without charge, monthly,
or as frequently al the regulations of the
respective offices will permit.
ARTICLE XII. This convention shall come
into operation on the first day of December,
1870, and shall be terminsble 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. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General Of the United States.
JULIUS lloyd,
Postmaster General of New Zsaiand.
/ hereby approve the foregoing cOnven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the Emitted States to be affixed
,e.,9 U. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, October s, 1870.
Convention between the general postoffice
of the United States Of America and the
general postOfice of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. r
The general postof6ee of the United
States Of America and the general postof6ce
of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland, being dssirous Of establishing
an exchange Of money orders between the
two Countries, the undersigned, duly
authorized for that purpose, have agreed
upon the following articles;Jr
ARTICLE l..
There shall be a regular exchange of
money orders between the two countries.
The maximum of each order is fixed ut 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 Post0fhce shall have the
same power in regard to all money orders
issued in the United States. Each office
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. It IL understood, more
over, that each office ia 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
ARTICLE III.
Each country shall keep the commission
charged on all money orders issued within
per cent on the total amount Of such orders.
ARTICLE ".
No money order shall include fractional
part VI penny OE VI 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 tho 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 postofGce
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
reh1it 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
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. postofice in that country,
designated by the remitter of the order, it
being understood that the money orders
20 RENTED shall be sent, in the first 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 |
ice OF the other country certified list Of
sums payable in that country, and re-
,eived 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 |
forward them 10 the payees or to
The paying office, in conformity with the
regulations existing in the United States
sor the payment of money orders. The list
to the United Kingdom shall be
accompanied by the relative letters of ad-
rice Of the orders entered therein, together
With the orders themselves, a. already
,ettled in article vi. After comparison with
he list, the advices shall be despatched to
he 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
70 according to the forms A and B an
lexed.
ARTICLE VIII.
The lists dispatched from each office of
shall be numbered consecutively.
with No. l, at the beginning Of
ZACH year, and the entries, also, in these
lists. shall have consecutive numbers, those