Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/1903

 CONVENTION—MEXICO. SEPTEMBER 2, 1899. 1801 time, the fees to be charged on all Money Orders they may respectively issue. This commission shall belong to the issuing postal administration. ARTICLE 6.—Names. 1. No Money Order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish in Nemesfull the surname, and at least the initial of one first name, both of the remitter and the payee, or the name of the firm or company who are the remitters or payees, together with the address of the remitter and that of the payee. 2. If, however, any applicant for a Money Order shall tender the name of either the remitter or payee at greater length, such particulars shall be received and entered in the list. ARTICLE 7.——Emc}zamge qjfces. The service of the Postal Money Order System between the two Exchange umm. countries shall be performed exclusively by the a ency of the offices of exchange. On the part of Mexico the office og exchange shall be Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, and on the part of the United States, Laredo, Texas. ARTICLE 8.-——E:vchang6 Zists. 1. The particulars of all Money Orders drawn in the United States Lim upon Mexico shall be entered at the Exchange Office of Laredo in a list similar to the form marked "A" (in the a endix), in which list shall be shown the amount of each Order inlignited States money. Such list, after having received the impression of the Laredo date stamp, ·shall be forwarded, in duplicate, to the Exchange OfHce at Nuevo Laredo, where both copies shall be impressed with the date stamp of that office, where the rate of conversion and the amount to be paid on each Order in the money of Mexico shall be noted on both copies of the list, and where the requisite arrangements for effecting payment of the Orders shallvbe carried out. 2. In like manner the particulars of Money Orders drawn in Mexico lulpon the United States shall be entered at the Exchange Office at uevo Laredo in a list similar to the form marked “‘ B," in which shall be shown the rate of conversion and the amount of each Order in the money of both countries. Such list, after having received the impression of the date stamp of that office, shall be forwarded in duplicate to the Exchange Office at Laredo, where it shall receive the impression of the date stamp in use at that office, and where inland (re-issued) Orders and Advices corresponding to the entries in the list shall be issued, to effect payment in accordance with the regulations of the Post Office Department of the United States. 3. The lists as well as the entries in the lists shall be numbered con- b Liam w be numsecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., in the order of dispatch, commencing on July as ’€t°` lst of each calendar year, and the receipt of each list shall be acknowledged on either side by means of the first subsequent list forwarded in the opposite direction. .4. Such lists shall be transmitted by each mail dispatched from Nuevo Laredo to Laredo, and vice-ive-wsa, and shall be written in copying ink. 5. One copy of each exchange list shall be returned by the receiving Exchan e Office to the dispatching Exchange Office; but, before returning sucg copy, the receiving Exchange Office shall enter therein the names of the respective offices of payment of the Orders enumerated in the list. 6. 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."