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 CON VENTION-NEW SOUTH WALES. Ocr. 9, Dnc. 6, 1881. 903 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 the Payment of bel- General Post Office at London, to the credit of the General Post Office °”°°°· of New South Wales. If pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Ad- Payment on eoministrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding ¤¢>¤¤t 1><>¤¤i¤s M- nve hundred pounds (:3500) 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,” Forme**D,"**E,” and “G," annexed to this Convention. "F·” Anrrcnn 13. Until the two Postal Administrations shall`consent to an alteration, Equjvglontvalug it is agreed that in all matters of account, relative to money-orders, of the pound emwhich shall result from the execution of the present Convention, the 1***8- pound sterling of Great Britain shall be considered as equivalent to four dollars, eighty seven cents of the money of the United States. Anrrcnn 14. l The Postal Administration in each country shall be authorized to Addmouaimtee, 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 sto the Post Office of the other country. Aarronn 15. The present Convention shall take effect on the first day of January, Commencement 1882, and shall continue in force until twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have notiiied to the other its intention to ter- Termination_ miuate it. - · Done in duplicate and signed in Washington on the sixth day of De- Date of exemeember, in the year of our Lord, 1881, and in Sydney on the twenty **i°¤· ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1881. rnonns L. mums, » *°··‘·t*.:.’:·:..*:.‘:.*..°.:s**"* sigmm. Postmaster General of the United States. ` F. B. sorcrnn °’“';‘.Sf..*::‘.’.:·*...‘l3“ °‘ ° Postmaster General of New South Wales. I herebyapprove the foregoing convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. [Seal of the United States] CHESTER A. ARTHUR. By the President . Jnms G. Bnanm, Secretary of State. Wssnmomos, December Sth, 1881 ’ t