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 890 POSTAL CONVENTION- GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 30 & JULY 27, 1871. the quarterl account all money-orders entered in the lists received from the United gtates 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 office, which, under this article, become void. Arvrrcmc XVHI. - Repaymsnts or Repayment of orders to remitters shall not be made until an authoriza- {***1****** *0 mmm tion for such repayment shall first have been obtained by the country of m` 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. It is the province of each postal administration to determine the manner in which repayment to the remitter is to be made. Aarrcm XIX. Orders subyect The orders issued by each country on the other shall be subject, as re- Qoghgg Qgrgg gards payment, to the regulations which govern the payment of inlahd Payment, orders of the country on which they are drawn. Ambxcma XX. {Additional The general post-office in each country shall be authorized to adopt any Qfgtgaiy b° 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 postoflice of the other country. ARTICLE XXI. when this con- The present convention shall take eifect on the first day of October zgzgsu $h¤u*¤k° next, and shall continue in force until twelve months after the date at which one of the contracting parties shall have notified to the other its intention to terminate it. Signature. Done in duplicate and signed in London on the thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and in Wllashington on the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. [SEAL.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, P0stmaster— General of the Z/izited States. [san,.] W. MON SELL, Ihr M¢ycsty`s Postmaster- General. Approval. I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be anixed. [SEAL.] U. S. GRANT. By the President: HABHLTON Fisn, Secretary of State. Wssnmerou, July 27, 1871.