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 relating to an order payable in the United States, the name of the State in which such office is situated; if relating to an order payable in the Hawaiian Kingdom, the name of the island. 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 the Hawaiian Kingdom by the post-offices in the United States shall be sent to the office of Exchange at San Francisco, where they shall be examined, and, if found correct, impressed with the dated stamp of that office; and transmitted, by the next direct mail, to the exchange office at Honolulu, accom panied by a list, in duplicate, drawn upon the model of Form 'A.' The advices, on their arrival in Honolulu, shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards despatched to the paying offices. In like manner the advices of money-orders, drawn on the United States by postmasters in the Hawaiian Kingdom, shall be sent to the exchange office at Honolulu, where they shall be examined, and, if found correct, impressed with the dated stamp of that office, and transmitted by the next direct mail, to the exchange office at San Francisco, accompanied by a list, in duplicate, drawn upon the model of form ‘B.' The advices, on their receipt at San Francisco, shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards despatched to the paying offices. The advices of orders issued in the United States in the month of March, 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 March, and in like manner, the advices of orders issued in the Hawaiian Kingdom in the month of June, which may arrive at the exchange office at Honolulu 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. ARTICLE 7. The lists, despatched from each office of exchange, shall be num. Lists to be numbered consecutively, commencing with No. 1, at the beginning of the bered consecumonth of July in each year; and the entries in these lists shall also tively. have consecutive numbers. Of each list despatched a duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate, Duplicate sets. after being verified by the receiving office of exchange, shall be returned to the despatching office of exchange. Each office of exchange shall promptly communicate to the other the correction of any simple error, which it may discover in the verification of the lists. When the lists shall show irregularities, which the receiving exchange office shall not be able to rectify, that office shall apply for an explanation to the despatching exchange office, and such explanation shall be afforded without delay. Should any list fail to be received in due course, the despatching exchange office, on receiving information to that effect, shall transmit, without delay, a duplicate of the list, duly certified as such.. XXIII -47 Errors. Irregularities. Failure of lists. Accounts. Payment of bal ances. ARTICLE 8. 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 established, or to be established in that country. ARTICLE 9. The orders, issued by each country on the other, shall be subject, as regards payment, to the regulations which govern the payment of inland orders of the country, on which they were drawn. The paid orders shall remain in the possession of the country of pay ment. ARTICLE 10. 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 are payable, and the amounts of the repaid orders shall be duly credited to the former country in the quarterly account. (Article 12.) It is the province of each Postal Administration to determine the manner in which repayment to the remitter is to be made. ARTICLE 11. 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 be at the disposal of the country of origin. The Hawaiian Post-Office Department shall, therefore, enter to the credit of the United States, in the quarterly account, all money-orders entered in the lists received from the United States, which remain unpaid at the end of the period specified. (Article 12.) On the other hand the Post-Office Department of the United States shall, at the close of each month, transmit to the Hawaiian Post-Office Department, for entry in the quarterly account, a detailed statement of all orders, included in the lists despatched from the latter office, which under this article becomes void. ARTICLE 12. At the close of each quarter an account shall be prepared at the Hawaiian Post Department, showing in detail the totals of the lists, containing the particulars of orders issued in either country during the quarter, and the balance resulting from such transactions. Three copies of this account shall be transmitted to the Post-Office Department of the United States, at Washington, and the balance, after proper verification, shall, if due by the Post-Office Department of Hawaii, be paid at San Francisco, but, if due by the Post-Office Department of the United States, it shall be paid at Honolulu. Payment on ac- If pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Adcount pending set- ministrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding tlement. two thousand five hundred dollars, the indebted Administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance to the credit of the other. This account shall be in accordance with the forms 'C,' 'D,' 'E' and 'F,' annexed to this Convention. Forms. ARTICLE 13. Equivalent In the exchange of money-orders between the two countries, one value of a dollar in dollar in Hawaiian money shall be taken as the equivalent of one dollar U. S. money. in United States money. This standard in either country shall be gold value. ARTICLE 14. The United States Postal Administration undertakes to serve as Exchange with intermediary for the exchange of postal orders from the Hawaiian foreign countries. Kingdom to be paid in any European country with which that Administration maintains an exchange of postal orders, and with which the Postal Administration of the Hawaiian Kingdom does not have such exchange, as well as for the exchange of orders from any such European country destined for payment in the Hawaiian Kingdom, provided the European country interested consent to an arrangement of this nature. ARTICLE 15. The Postal Administration 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 generally. All such additional rules, however, must be promptly communicated to the Post-Office Department of the other country. ARTICLE 16. Additional rules. Commencement This present Convention shall take effect on the first day of January, 1884, and shall continue in force until twelve months after either of the and duration. contracting parties shall have notified to the other its intention to terminate it. ARTICLE 17. The ratifications of the present Convention shall be exchanged prior Exchange of ratifications. to the first day of December, 1883. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. Executed in duplicate and signed at Washington the eleventh day of September, 1883. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] H. A. P. CARTER, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister WALTER Q. GRESHAM, Postmaster General of the United States. I hereby approve the foregoing Convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. [SEAL.] By the President: FREDK. T. FRELINGHUYSEN, Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, September 13th, 1883. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. I hereby approve the foregoing Convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the Hawaiian Kingdom to be hereto affixed. [SEAL.] By the King: WALTER M. GIBSON. KALAKAUA REX. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Premier. HONOLULU, October 13th, 1883. Signatures. List No. Stamp of San Francisco Office. SIR: I have the honor to transmit to you, herewith, in duplicate, a list containing a detailed statement of the sums received in the United States since my last despatch (List No. -) for orders payable in the Hawaiian Kingdom, amounting in the aggregate to $ Be pleased to examine, complete and return to me the original copy of this list, with your acknowledgment of its receipt indorsed thereon. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, To the POSTMASTER, Money-Order Exchange Office, Honuulu. Postmaster, San Francisco. |