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 674 CONVENTION——CANADA. Jenn s Ann 2::, 1875. ARTICLE V. Issue of orders. Any person in the United States desiring to remit to the Dominion of stl'; *h° U“***°d Canada a sum of money within the limits prescribed by Article I hereof, “ "‘ may pay it into any post-office in the United States designated from time to time by the Postmaster·General of that country for the transaction of Canadian money-order business. Such person shall, at the same time, give the name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid in said Dominion, and also his own name and address. In Canada. Any person iu_ the Dominion of Canada desiring to remit to the United States a sum of money within the same limits, may pay it into any money-order office of said Dominion, designated by the Postmaster- General thereot' for said purpose, giving at the same time the name and ' address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid in the United States, and also his own name and address. D¤l¤y<>fP¤¤t¤¤¤¤- The receiving postmaster in either country shall, in accordance with advice, and a money-order to the exchange-office in the United States most convenient to the residence of the beneficiary for whom the money is intended, the postmaster- of which exchangeoflice shall, immediately after the receipt thereof, certify upon the coupon, the advice, and the order, the value of the same in the currency of the country in which payment is to be made, and he shall likewise enter therein the name of the inland office at which the same is to be paid, and shall at once forward the advice to said office, and the order to the beneficiary for whom the money is intended, retaining the coupon on nie in his office as a voucher for his own protection and information. . Aarrcrn VI. Numbering or- The money-orders, advices, and coupons issued in each country shall dere- have printed thereon consecutive local or inland numbers, the number upon each advice and coupon being the same as upon its corresponding order; aud, in addition thereto, all such orders, advices, and coupons shall be numbered consecutively at the exchangeoftice at which they are certified, which numbers shall be in the order of their receipt and certification, and shall be designated as "international numbers." Reportiugcrrcr. The discovery, by an inland postmaster, of any error in a money·order or advice shall be by him promptly reported to the exchange-ofiiee through which the same was certified, and any error coming to the notice of an exchange-ofiice shall at once be reported to the Money-Order Ofiice at Washington, D. C., in order that an explanation or correction may be given or asked for, as the case may be, which explanation or correction shall be afforded with the least possible delay. Aurrorn VII. _ Lists of orders Lists of all orders issued during each week by postmasters in either ‘S““°‘l· country for payment in the other, shall, at the close of the week, or as soon thereafter as practicable, be transmitted by the Postal Department of the issuing to that of the paying country, and at the close of Accounts. each fiscal quarter two copies of an account shall be prepared and transmitted to the Postal Department of the United States by the Postal Department of the Dominion of Canada, exhibiting the balance feund due on the exchanges of money-orders during the quarter, one copy ot' which, after proper verification and acknowledgment. shall be returned to the Postal Department of the Dominion of Canada. If this verified Payment of bal- account shows a balance in favor of the Postal Department of the 1)o- ¤¤¤¤¤- minion of Canada, that of the United States will transmit, with such verified copy of the quarterly account, a bill of exchange on Montreal, Canada, lor the amount of said balance, payable to the Postal Department of the Dominion of Canada. The latter will then send an acknowledgment of receipt to the Postal Department of the United States. lf,
 * °’· the rules established by its Postal Department, forward a coupon, an