her in this behalf by virtue of the hereinbefore recited Act, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order that the several fees mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed for the several matters mentioned therein shall be abolished, and that the fees mentioned in the said Schedule B of the said China and Japan Maritime Order in Council, 1874, shall and may be taken in lieu thereof by Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China and Japan. And the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. C. L. PEEL. SCHEDULE TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ORDER REFERS. Matters in respect of which the Fee is to be taken. For every declaration made before the Consul in Forms B, C, F, G, H, and L, in the Schedule to "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," with a view to the registry, transfers, and transmission of ships, interests in ships, or mortgages on ships For indorsing a memorandum of change of master upon the certificate Fees. Dols. cts. 1 0 0 50 2 50 For recording a mortgage of a ship or shares in a ship, made under a 2 50 1 50 For recording the discharge of a mortgage of a ship or shares in a ship, made under a certificate of mortgage.. 2 0 For every sale of a ship or shares in a ship, made before the Consul, 2 50 ARRANGEMENT for the Exchange of Money Orders between the Money Order Department of India and the Post Office of Denmark.-Signed at Copenhagen, November 29, 1875; and at London, January 4, 1876. In order to establish an exchange of Money Orders between India and Denmark, the Undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose have, subject to ratification, agreed upon the following Articles : ART. I. There shall be a regular exchange of Money Orders between India and Denmark by means of the weekly mail service viâ Brindisi. II. The Money Order business between the two countries shall be performed exclusively through offices of exchange communicating with each other by means of lists, as explained more particularly below, the Money Orders being made out and forwarded to the payees by the office of exchange of the country in which the Orders are payable. The offices of exchange shall be, on the side of India, Bombay, and on the side of Denmark, Korsoer. III. The amount of Orders exchanged in both directions shall be expressed in sterling money. IV. The maximum amount for which a Money Order may be drawn in either country upon the other shall be 107. V. No Money Order shall contain a fractional part of a penny. VI. The manner and conditions of issuing Money Orders in either country shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of issue. VII. The cost of Money Orders, i.e., the amounts to be paid for them by the remitters in the currency of the country of issue, shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of issue. Each country shall communicate to the other the regulations relating to the charges for Money Orders issued in force for the time being. VIII. Applications by remitters for the alteration or correction of the name of the payee shall be received under the regulations of the country of issue, and forwarded to the country of payment for disposal under its regulations, accompanied by such information as may be necessary for the identification of the particular Orders referred to. Applications by remitters for repayment of Orders shall be received and forwarded in like manner, the repayment being made only under the authority of the country of payment, and according to the regulations of the country of issue. IX. The conversion of Money Orders into the currency of the country of payment shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of payment. Each country shall communicate to the other the regulations, for the time in force, relating to the conversion of Money Orders expressed in sterling money into its own currency for the purpose of payment. X. The manner and conditions of paying Orders, including stoppage of payment, renewal of Orders, issue of duplicate Orders, and other services affecting payment, shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of payment. XI. The amount of Money Orders not ultimately paid, i.e., of Orders which become void under the regulations of the country of payment, shall belong to the country of issue. XII. The country of issue which collects the money from remitters shall account to the country of payment for the total amount of the Orders issued, together with 1 per cent. additional on the total by way of commission. XIII. The two offices of exchange shall communicate to each other by each mail the particulars of Money Orders issued by means of lists of the annexed forms marked A and AA, giving all particulars for which provision is made in the forms. The particulars as to names shall include the surname, and at least the initial of one Christian name, both of the remitter and of the payee, or, in the case of natives of India, the name, tribe or caste, and father's name, or the name of the firm or company who are the remitters or payees. The address of the payee must be given fully and precisely, as on it depends the determination by the receiving office of exchange of the office where the Order shall be made payable. XIV. Besides the particulars of Money Orders issued, the lists mentioned in Article XIII shall contain particulars of Orders authorized to be repaid to the remitters. XV. Blank lists shall be forwarded in case there shall be no Money Orders to communicate. XVI. Should any list fail to be received in due course, the despatching office shall, on receiving information to that effect, transmit without delay a duplicate thereof. XVII. The lists despatched from each office of exchange shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with No. 1 for the first list of each calendar year, and these numbers shall be termed the "List numbers." XVIII. The entries in the lists respecting Orders issued shall also bear consecutive numbers, commencing with No. 1 for each list, and these numbers shall be termed the Entry numbers." XIX. Each list shall be accompanied by a transmitting letter of the form annexed, bearing the same number and date as the list. This transmitting letter shall mention the number of applications forwarded from remitters affecting Orders previously issued; it shall give information respecting the disposal of similar applications received from the other office of exchange, and it shall contain an acknowledgment of the list or lists received since the date of the previous letter. XX. Each list shall be carefully verified by the receiving office of exchange, and corrected when it contains simple errors, such corrections being noted at the foot of the transmitting letter containing the acknowledgment of the receipt of the list. XXI. When a list shall contain errors or irregularities which cannot be rectified without previous communication with the despatching office, the receiving office shall, at the time of acknowledging the receipt, request an explanation from the despatching office. This explanation shall be given with as little delay as possible, and meantime the payment of Orders dependent on the irregular entries shall be suspended. XXII. As soon as the Danish office of exchange shall have received from India acknowledgments of the receipt of all the lists bearing dates in any quarter, these lists, as well as the Indian lists bearing dates in the same quarter, shall be made the subject of a quarterly account in the annexed Form B. XXIII. The account mentioned in Article XXII shall be based on the lists as corrected by the receiving office, any entries at the time under suspension pending explanation being excluded. XXIV. The account shall also include, under the head of "Special Items," any necessary adjustments of previous accounts (such as adjustments on account of suspended entries), as well as any other items of account not otherwise provided for, a detailed statement of such special items being annexed to the account, and the correspondence or other documents forming the authority for each special item being quoted opposite it in the statement. XXV. The account shall be prepared in duplicate, one copy being forwarded to the Indian office of exchange, and the other through the General Post Office, Copenhagen, to the Financial Secretary, India Office, London, for payment by bill of exchange on Copenhagen, if the balance be in favour of Denmark, and with payment by bill of exchange on London, if the balance be in favour of India. In the case of payment to Denmark, the bill of exchange on Copenhagen shall be for an amount in Danish currency equivalent, at the current rate of exchange, to the balance in sterling money stated in the account. XXVI. Each office shall have authority to suspend temporarily the exchange of Money Orders, in case the course of exchange, or any other circumstance, shall give rise to abuses, or cause detriment to the revenue. XXVII. For ordinary correspondence, affecting the preparation, transmission, or correction of lists, accounts, &c., the offices of exchange shall be the medium; but in matters involving questions other than detail, the offices of correspondence shall be the General Post Office, Copenhagen, on the one hand, and the office of the Controller-General of Accounts, Money Order Department, Calcutta, on the other hand. XXVIII. The Department charged with the control of Money Orders in either country shall have authority 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 generally. All such additional rules, however, shall be communicated by the one Department to the other. XXIX. The present arrangement shall take effect on the 1st April, 1876. It shall then continue in force until one year after the date at which one of the Contracting Parties shall have notified the other of its intention to terminate it. Executed in duplicate and signed: at London, the 4th of January, 1876; at Copenhagen, the 29th of November, 1875. A. M. MONTEATH, Director-General of the Post Office. SCHON, Director-General of the Post. I TRANSMIT to you herewith a list bearing the above-mentioned number and date, containing a detailed statement of Money Orders payable by your Department, and also of void Orders, and of Money Orders drawn by your Department and now authorized to be repaid to the remitters. I forward herewith, for disposal by you, there has been noted : 1. A serial "Application No. reference thereto); applications, on each of which (which can be quoted by you in any 2. The number and date of the list in which the Order referred to was originally entered; and, 3. The entry number under which it was entered in the list. Annexed is a memorandum, showing how the applications received from you up to date have been disposed of; those entered as "not yet disposed of" will continue to be quoted in future letters until they are disposed of. Since the despatch of my last list I have received your list No. dated which was found to be correct, with the exception noted below. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, To the Controller, Money Order Exchange Office, Korsoer, |