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 GON'VENTION—HONDURAS. JULY 16, 1896. 1609 order shall be repaid to the remitter, application must be made by the ‘ remitter to the postal administration of the country in which the order was issued. Duplicate orders shall only he issued by the postal administration Duputms. of the country on which the original orders were drawn, and in conformity with the regulations established in that country. AuT. XIII. Repayment, whether of an original or by means of a R°P*·Ym¤¤t· duplicate order, shall not be made to the remitter until it has been ascertained through the postal administration of the country on which the original order was drawn that the order has not been paid, and will not be paid in the country of payment. ART. XIV. Orders which shall not have been paid within twelve Not paid wang;. calendar months from the month of issue shall become void and the §§"’° “‘°"““- '°"~ sums received shall accrue to, and be at the disposal of, the country of origin. The Post-Oiilce Department of Honduras shall therefore enter to the credit of the United States, in the quarterly account, all money orders entered in the lists received from the United States, and which remain unpaid at the end of the period specified. On the other hand, the l‘ost-Office Department of the United States shall, at the close of each month, transmit to the Post-Office Department of Honduras, for entry in the quarterly account, a detailed statement of all orders included in the lists dispatched irom the latter office, which under this article become void. ABT. XV. At the close of each quarter an account shall be prepared mpmntt. m.,..: by the Post-Oilice Department of Honduras, showing in detail the f*"’°‘°°' totals of the lists containing the particulars of orders issued in either country during the quarter and the balance resulting from such transactions. Two copies of the account shall be transmitted to the Post—Oi1ice Department of the United States, at Washington, and the balance, which must always be stated in United States money, shall, after proper verification, if due by the postoffice department of Hondura, be paid at New York, in the money of the United States, by a sight bill of exchange sent by the post-office department of Honduras at the same ~ time that it transmits the account, and if due by the Post-Omoo Department of the United States it shall bepaid at Tegucigalpa, at the same time that the Post·0flice Department of the United States returns the accepted copy of the account, by means of a sight bill of exchange on Tegucigalpa, drawn in United States money. But it is hereby agreed that either of the two post-office departments shall be empowered to pay such balances due to the other by means of sight bills of exchange drawn on London, in sterling money, on the basis that $4.78 ot the money of the United States shall be equivalent to £1 sterling. For this quarterly account forms shall be used in exact conformity with the patterns C, D, and E in the appendix. P"'- P· mz Ii] pending the settlement of an account, one of the two postal administrations shall ascertain that it owes the otherabalance exceeding $5,000, the indebted administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance to the credit of the other. _ A RT. XVI. The l’ostmaster—General, in either country, shall be -“"“°'“*“"°'· authorized to adopt any additional rules, if not repugnant to the foregoing, for the greater security against iraud, or for the better working of the system generally. All such additional rules, however, must be communicated to the Postmaster General of the other country. ART. XVII. Each administration is authorized, in extraordinary s,,;f1°{)'*,l;‘;'rjq'{,B”“P•· circumstances that would justify the measure, to suspend temporarily the money order service, in whole or in part, upon condition of giving notice of such suspension immediately to the other country, and, 1f deemed necessary, by means of the telegraph. ART. XVIII. This convention shall come into operation on the 1st Duration. day of October, 1896, and shall continue in force until twelve months