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 CONV ENTION—TASMAN IA. JULY 5, 1882, Novmmmrt 20, 1882. 999 States, the balance shall likewise be paid to the General Post—Otl:ice at London, to the credit of the General Post-Oiiice of Tasmania. If, pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Ad- P¤Y¤¤¤¤*9 <>¤ M- ministrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding :£,““;uQ°“‘h“g “"”‘ tive hundred pounds (£500) sterling, the indebted Administration shall m ' promptly remit the appr oximate amount of such balance to the credit of the other. This account shall be in accordance with the forms “D", “E", "F", F¤¤¤¤· and “G", annexed to this Convention. Ancricnn 13. Until the two Postal Administrations shall consent to an alteration, it is agreed, that, in all matters of account, relative to money-orders, which shall result from the execution of the present Convention, the pound sterling of Great Britain shall be considered as equivalent to Ecpiivnleut valfour dollars, eighty-seven cents, of the money of the United States. yu} P°*”*d ******1* ARTICLE 14. The Postal Administration in each country shall be authorized to Ad¤¤lr¤1¤• 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-Oihce of the other country.` Anrrcm 15. ° This present Convention shall take eifect on the iirst day of January, Commencement 1883, and shall continue in force until twelve months after either of the md d“’°*“°“· contracting parties shall have notihed to the other its intention to ter— _ minate it. Done in duplicate, and signed in Washington, on the twentieth day concluded July “ of November, in the year of our Lord, 1881, and in Hobart, on the hfth  N"- 2*% day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1882. ‘ [‘•*°f,‘}:j’  TIMO. O. HOWE, Signatures. · Postmaster General of the United States. ¤•·* ·*gF,·,gg¤··°•· J. L. Donns, Postmaster General of Tasmania. I hereby approve the foregoing convention, and in testimony thereof, ` I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto aliixed. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. [!¤1¤ru»•u¤n•dS¤:e¤.] By the President: Fnnnx. T. Fnmnmeuursnu, Secretary of State. Wssmivoroiv, November 20, 1882.