Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/1649

 1614 OONVEN’I`ION—EGYPT. JUNE 23, 1897. offices of exchange. On the part of Egypt the office of exchange shall be the general post-office at Alexandria and on the part of the United States, New York, N. Y. Lists ARTICLE VIII. The particulars of all money orders drawn in the United States upon Egypt shall be entered at the exchange office, New York, in a list similar to the form marked A (in the Appendix), in which shall be shown the amount of each order in United States money, which list, after having received the impression of the New York date stamp, shall be forwarded to the exchange office of Egypt, where it shall be impressed with the date stamp of that office, and where the requisite arrangements for effecting payment of the order shall be carried out. In like manner the particulars of money orders drawn in Egypt on the United States shall be entered at the exchange office at Alexandria in a list similar to the form marked B, in which shall be shown the amount of each order in the money of both countries, which list, after having received the impression of the date stamp of that office, shall be forwarded to the exchange office of New York, where it shall receive the impression of the date stamp in use at that office, and where the necessary arrangements for effecting payment of the orders shall be carried out. rtbemmtma. Each list, as well as the entries in the list dispatched, shall be numbered consecutively, 1, 2, 3, etc., in the order of dispatch, commencing on July 1st of each calendar year, and the receipt of each list shall be acknowledged on each side by means of the first subsequent list forwarded in the opposite direction. nupuemem. Such a list shall be transmitted by each mail dispatched from Egypt . to theport of New York, and vice versa, and in order to prevent inconvenience in case the original lists shall be lost each office shall forwar{l by the following mail a duplicate of the list sent by the preceding mai. Should it happen that on the day when the list is to be dispatched there are no orders to be·communicated for payment, the list must nevertheless be sent. But in that event the exchange office will write across the list the words “No money orders." dmR·><=$£;¤fgg¤ fg? ARTICLE IX. As soon as the list of the dispatching office shall have P" g °°" 'reached the receiving office of exchange, the latter shall make out internal money orders in favor of the payees for the amounts specified in th list, and shall forward them, free of postage, to the addressees or to the offices of destination, in conformity with the regulations in each country for the payment of money orders. Wlieii the list shall show irregularities which the receiving office shall not be able to rectify, that office shall demand an explanation with as little delay as possible. Pendinggthe receipt of the explanation the issue of internal money orders of payment relating to the entries found to be erroneous in the list should be suspended. One copy of each exchange list shall be returned by the receiving exchange office to the dispatching onice, but, before returning such . copy the receiving exchange office shall enter therein the names of the respective offices of payment of the orders enumerated in the list, and, in the lists from the United States returned by the exchange office of Alexandria, the latter office shall also enter the amount of each order in the money of Egypt, according to the conversion made by it. or-am subject w ARTICLE X. The orders issued by each country on the other shall be Q‘j,€§j§§§§';j§§,§$"“g subject, as regards payment, to the regulations which govern the pay- ment of domestic orders in the country of destination. It is agreed that all money orders paid in either country shall be retained in the country in which they are paid. ` ¤<>¤~¤¤¤¤¤f¤r¤>r·· Anricrn XI. When it is desired that any error in the name of the payee or remitter shall be corrected, or that the amount of a money order shall be repaid to the remitter, application must be made by the remitter gg the postal administration of the country in which the order was 1ssu.