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 dispatching Exchange Office, and such explanation shall be afforded without delay.

Should any List fail to be received in due course, the dispatching Exchange Office, on receiving information to that effect shall transmit, without delay, a duplicate of the List, duly certified as such.

ARTICLE 8.

Duplicate orders shall only be issued by the Postal Administration of Regulations govthe country, on which the original orders were drawn, and in conformity érning payment, 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 payment.

&c.

Paid orders, possession of, &c.

ARTICLE 10.

Repayment to

Repayment of orders to remitters shall not be made until an authorization for such repayment shall first have been obtained by the country remitters, how of issue from the country where such orders are payable, and the made. 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 remitters 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.

Quarterly ac

The New Zealand Office shall, therefore, enter to the credit of the United States, in the quarterly account, all money-orders entered in the counts, credit in. 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 New Zealand Office, for entry in the quarterly account, a detailed statement of all orders, included in the Lists dispatched from the latter Office, which under this Article become void.

ARTICLE 12.

Rendition of,

Accounts, state

At the close of each quarter an account shall be prepared at the Postmaster-General's Office, Wellington, showing in detail the totals of the ment of. 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 Payment of bal. Department of the United States, at Washington, and the balance, after ances. proper verification, shall, if due by the Post Office Department of New Zealand, be paid to the General Post-Office at London, to the credit of the Post-Office Department of the United States on account of the exchange of money-orders between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; if due by the Post-Office Department of the United States. the balance shall likewise be paid to XXII-54

the General Post-Office at London, to the credit of the Post-Office Department of New Zealand.

If pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Administrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding five hundred pounds (£500) sterling, 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 "D," "E,” “F,” and "G," annexed to this Convention.

ARTICLE 13.

Equivalent

Until the two Postal Administrations shall consent to an alteration, value of the pound it is agreed that in all matters of account relative to money-orders sterling. which shall result from the execution of the present Convention the pound sterling of Great Britain shall be considered as equivalent to four dollars, eighty-seven cents of the money of the United States.

Additional rules.

Commencement.

Termination.

Dates.

ARTICLE 14.

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 of the other country.

ARTICLE 15.

This present Convention shall take effect on the first day of January, 1882, and shall continue in force until twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have notified to the other its intention to terminate it.

Done in duplicate and signed in Washington on the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1881, and in Wellington on the eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1881.

(Signed)

THOMAS L. JAMES, Postmaster General of the United States. WALTER U. JOHNSTON,

Postmaster General of New Zealand.

Secretary Posts & Telegraphs.

I hereby approve the foregoing convention, and in testimony thereof

I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.

A.

Value of United States order in English money.

San Francisco, January 1, 1882.

Value of New Zealand order in United States money.

25

Auckland, January 1, 1882.

B.

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 dispatch (List No.....................), for orders payable in New Zealand, 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 Ofice, Auckland.

Postmaster, San Francisco.