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Table showing the particulars of such orders as have been repaid to the remitters in the country of issue.

Convention between the Post-Office Department of the United States of Oct. 8, Dec. 6, 1881. America and the Post-Office Department of the Colony of New Zealand, concerning the exchange of money-orders. Done in duplicate and signed in Washington December 6, 1881; and in Wellington October 8, 1881.

Contracting par

The Post-Office Department of the United States of America and the Post-Office Department of the Colony of New Zealand, being desirous ties. of establishing a system of exchange of money-orders between the two countries, the undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE 1.

There shall be a regular exchange of money-orders between the two countries.

The maximum of each order is fixed at £10 sterling, when issued in New Zealand, and, when issued in the United States, at the equivalent, in sterling money, of $50 in the money of the latter country, converted at the rate fixed by article 13 of the present Convention.

Exchange of postal money-orders. Maximum.

Fractions ex

cluded.

To be expressed in British money,

No money-order shall include a fractional part of a penny, or, of a cent. The amount of each order, whether issued in the United States or in New Zealand, must be expressed in letters in British money, and the equivalent in the money of the United States must also be shown in and also the figures.

ARTICLE 2.

equivalent of money of the United States.

Commissions,

The New Zealand Post-Office Department shall have power to fix the rates of commission on all money-orders issued in New Zealand, and the how fixed. Post-Office Department of the United States 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 payable in advance by the remitters, and shall not be repayable.

Rate of charges.

thorized.

It is understood, moreover, that each office is authorized to suspend, Suspension autemporarily, 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 3.

Commissions,

payment of.

Each country shall keep the commission charged on all money-orders within its jurisdiction, but shall pay to the other country three fourths disposition and of one per cent. on the amount of such orders.

ARTICLE 4.

Exchange of

The service of the postal money-order system between the two countries, shall be performed exclusively by the agency of Offices of Exchange. fices, designated. On the part of the United States the Office of Exchange shall be San Francisco, California, and on the part of New Zealand, Auckland. Orders shall be drawn only on the authorized money-order offices of

Orders, how

Advices and

the respective countries; and each Postal Administration shall furnish drawn.
to the other a List of such offices, and shall, from time to time, notify
any addition to, or change in such List. Every order and advice must
contain the name of the office and of the country of destination, and if lists.
relating to an order payable in the United States, the name of the State
in which such office is situated.

Regulations for

issue.

How forwarded.

Advices sent, form "A."

Temporary sus

&c.

ARTICLE 5.

No money-order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish the name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid, and his own name and address; or the name of the firm or company who are the remitters or payees, together with the addresses of each.

The money-orders, issued in either country, shall be forwarded by the remitters to the payees, at their own expense.

ARTICLE 6.

The advices of all money-orders issued upon New Zealand by the postoffices in the United States shall be sent to the Office of Exchange at San Francisco, where they shall be impressed with a dated stamp (Form "A") showing the amount to be paid in sterling money, and transmitted, by the next direct mail, to the Exchange Office at Auckland, accompanied by a List, in duplicate, drawn upon the model of Form "B." The advices, on their arrival in Auckland, shall be compared with the entries in the List, and, afterwards dispatched to the paying offices.

In like manner the advices of money-orders, drawn on the United States by postmasters in New Zealand, shall be sent to the Exchange Office at Auckland, shall there be impressed with a dated stamp (Form "A") showing the amount to be paid in United States money, and be dispatched accompanied by a List, in duplicate, (Form "C") to the Office of Exchange at San Francisco by the next direct mail.

The advices, on their receipt at San Francisco, shall be compared with the entries in the List, and afterwards dispatched to the paying offices.

The advices of orders issued in the United States in the month of June, which may arrive at the Office of Exchange at San Francisco in the earlier days of the following month, shall be entered on Lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June, and in like manner, the advices of orders issued in New Zealand in the month of June, which may arrive at the Exchange Office at Auckland in the earlier days of the following month shall be entered on Lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June.

Each Exchange Office shall certify its orders to the other in amounts designated in the denominations of the money, both of the dispatching and receiving country, at the rate of conversion established by Article 13 of this Convention. The amounts, so converted, shall be checked at the receiving Office of Exchange.

Each Administration hereby undertakes and agrees to suspend the pension of issue issue of money-orders a sufficient length of time before the sailing of before mails close, each steamer which carries the Exchange Lists and advices, at those post-offices in its own territory where such suspension may be necessary, in order to prevent the issue of orders which could be dispatched by the outgoing mail while the corresponding advices could not be certified by the Exchange Office in time to be conveyed by that mail.

Advices and

The Exchange Lists and the accompanying advices shall invariably be lists, transmission sent by such steamers as carry the mails directly from San Francisco to Auckland, or from Auckland to San Francisco, as the case may be, and not via London in any event.

of.

bered, &c.

ARTICLE 7.

Lists to be unm- The Lists dispatched from each Office of Exchange, shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with No. 1 at the beginning of the month of July in each year; and the entries in these Lists shall also have consecutive numbers.

Of each List dispatched a duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate, after being verified by the receiving Office of Exchange, shall be returned to the dispatching Office of Exchange.