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 CONVENTION—QUEENSLAND. Manor: 26, MAY 28, 1884. 7 55 must contain the name of the office and of the country of destination, and if relating  an order payable in the United States, the name of the State in which such office is situated. _ Anrronn 5. No money-order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish the name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid, and his own name and address; or the name of the firm or company who are the remitters or payees, together with the address of each. The money-orders issued in either country, shall be forwarded by the F°"'¤¤u¤8 °’· remitters to the payees at their own expense. d°"· Anrionn 6. The advices of all money-orders issued upon Queensland by the post Advi¤¤¤- Oiiices in the United States shall be sent to the office of exchange at San Francisco, where they shall be impressed with a dated stamp (Form ‘A’) showing the amount to be paid in sterling money, and F¤¤¤ “A-” transmitted by the next direct mail, to the exchange office at Brisbane, accompanied by a list, in duplicate drawn upon the model of Form *B.’ F¤¤¤ "B·" The advices on their arrival in Brisbane shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards despatched to the paying offices. In like manner, the advices of money-orders drawn on the United States by postmasters in Queensland shall be sent to the exchange oiilce at Brisbane, shall there be impressed with a dated stamp Form ‘A’ showing the amount to be paid in United States money, and be despatched, accompanied by a list, in duplicate, (Form ‘C’) to the office of exchange at San Francisco by the next direct mail. The advices on their receipt at San Francisco shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards despatched to the paying odiees. . The advices of orders issued in the United States in the month of June which may arrive at the office of exchange at San Francisco, in the earlier days of the following month, shall be entered on lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June, and in like manner, the advices of orders issued in Queensland in the month of June which may arrive at the exchange office at Brisbane, in the earlier days of the following month, shall be entered on lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June. Each exchange office shall certify its orders to the other in amounts designated in the denominations of the money both of the despatchiug and receiving country at the rate of conversion established by Article 13 of this Convention. The amounts, so converted, shall be checked at the receiving office of exchange. Each Administration hereby undertakes and agrees to suspend the ’1'¤]¤r¤¤¤'! •¤¤· issue of money-orders a suiicient length of time before the sailing of gwmzmy each steamer which carries the exchange lists and advices. at those post-offices in its own territory where such suspension may be necessary, in order to prevent the issue of orders which could be despatched by the outgoing mail while the corresponding adviws could not be certified by the exchange otllce in time to be conveyed by that mail. _ The exchange lists and the accompanying advices shall invariably Lists and sd-. be sent by such steamers as carry the mails directly from San Fran- mg Mw *0* cisco to Brisbane or from Brisbane to San Francisco, as the case may _ ‘ be, and not via London in any event. Anrrcnn 7. The lists despatched irom each ofllce of exchange, shall be numbered b Lim to innumconsecutively, commencing with No. 1, at the begmning of the month dug? °°°•°°°‘ of July in each year; and the entries in these lists shall also have consecutive numbers.