Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-12-06

any simple error which it may discover in
verifcatim of the lists. When the lists
shall show irregularities which the receiv-
| ing office shall not be able to rectify, that
office shall apply for an explanation from
| the despatching office and this explana-
ton shallbe afforded without delay.
ARTICLE XI.
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-
l tablshed or to be established in that cOun-
try.
ARTICLE XII.
/ 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 veriication, 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 othera balance exceeding one thousand
pounds sterling, the indebted administra-
ton shall promptly remit the approximate
amount of such balance to the credit of
the other. This account, and the letters
which accompany such intermediate re-
mittances, shall be in accordance with the
Forms G., d, and e, annexed to this con-
vention.
ARTICLE NH.
Until the two General Post Offices shall
consent to an alteration, it is agreed that,
in all matters of account relative to money
| oh cIDo
ton of the present convention, the pound
sterling of Great Britain shall be consider
ed as equivalent to four dollars and eighty
six cents of the gold coin of the United
States.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each exchange Office shall certify its
orders to the other, in amounts designated
in the denominations of the money both
of the despatching and receiving country
at the rate of conversion established upon
the basis of gold by Article XIII of this
convention. This conversion shall be
checked at the receiving office of eX-
change.
ARTICLE XIV.
All payments for money orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
ARTICLE XVI.
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 in 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.
ARTICLE XVII.
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 office shall, at the close
of each month, transmit to the British
office, for entry in the quarterly account
a detailed statement of all orders included
in the lists despatched from the latter
| OIlCG WllIClIt u1OSI GIlIS diOlCIC, ESCUu1G
void.
| ARTICLE XVIII.
! Repayment of orders to remitters shall
not be made until an authorization for
such repayment shall first have been OBJ
tanned 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 quarterly account 1t is the province
of each postal administration to determine
the manner in which repayment to the
remitter is to be made.
| ARTICLE XIX.
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.
ARTICLE XX.
The General Post Office in each country
shall be authorized to adopt any addition
al 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
Post Office of the other country.
ARTICLE XXI.
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 contract
| ing parties shall have notified to the other
| its intention to terminate it.
Done in duplicate, and signed IN London
on the thirteenth 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 hum
dred and seventy-one.
| w. MOUSELL.
[Seal of Her Majesty's Postmaster Gen
eral.
JNO. A. J. CRESWELL,
| Postmaster General Of the United States.
| [Seal of the Post Office Department of
the United States of America.
| hereby approve the aforegOing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof, [ have
caused the seal of the United States to be
| affixed. U. S. GRANT.