Two copies shall be made of this Agreement, one in English and one in Malay, bearing the same interpretation.

Done in Kelantan on the 22nd day of October, 1910.
(L.S.) JOHN ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

CONVENTION between the Post Office Department of Surinam and the Post Office Department of British Guiana, concerning the Exchange of Money Orders to take the place of the Convention of the 4th and 14th November, 1903.*— Signed at Georgetown, August 17, and at Paramaribo, August 30, 1910.†

FOR the purpose of amending the system of exchange of money orders between Surinam and the Colony of British Guiana, the undersigned, by virtue of authority vested in them, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. There shall be a regular exchange of money orders between British Guiana and Surinam.

II. The money orders drawn in Surinam upon British Guiana shall be expressed in pounds, shillings, and pence sterling, those drawn in British Guiana upon Surinam shall be expressed in florins and cents, and the amounts deposited by the remitters and paid to the payees of money orders shall be in legal money of the same current value.

III. The maximum of each money order shall be 407., or the nearest equivalent of that sum in the money of the Colony of issue, and no money order shall include a fractional part of a penny or of a cent. Every money order and advice shall be drawn on authorized forms only.

IV. The British Guiana Post Office and the Post Office of Surinam shall communicate to each other the rates of commission to be charged on all money orders they may respectively issue.

* Vol. XCVI, page 1132.

+ British Guiana "Official Gazette," October 26, 1910.

V. Each country shall keep the commission charged on all money orders issued within its own jurisdiction for payment in the other, and no charge will be made by either Administration for any services performed for the other in connection with the exchange of money orders.

VI. Money orders shall be drawn only on authorized money order offices of the respective countries, and each Postal Administration shall furnish to the other a list of such offices, and from time to time notify any addition to or change in such lists.

VII. Every money order and advice shall contain the name of the office and of the country of destination, and, if relating to a money order payable in British Guiana, the name of the district in which such office is situated.

VIII. Money orders shall be issued only on the applicant furnishing the given name, surname, and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid, and his own name and address, except in the case of business firms, whose usual designation will be sufficient.

IX. An acknowledgment of the payment of money orders shall be returned to the remitter when requested, but either Colony may require of the remitter prepayment of a fee therefor not exceeding 2 d. or 121⁄2 cents. This fee shall belong to the issuing Colony.

X. As soon as possible after the expiration of each month, each Administration shall make out in duplicate and forward a certified list of all money orders issued by the other Administration which have been paid by its inland offices during that month.

(a.) These lists must exhibit in detail and in alphabetical order by districts, the names of the issuing offices, the serial numbers printed on the orders, and the amount of each order. The sum total of each sheet of paid orders must be stated in a summary attached to the list.

(6.) The list shall be numbered consecutively throughout the fiscal year, beginning with No. 1 on the 1st January, and ending with the last list dispatched in the month of December.

(c.) One copy of each of the lists shall be transmitted on the part of British Guiana to the Administrator of Finance, Paramaribo, Surinam, and in like manner on the part of Surinam to the Post Office Department at Georgetown, Demerara.

(d.) Every paid order shall accompany the list on which it is entered, and both lists and paid orders shall be forwarded under registered cover.

(e.) Each Department shall promptly acknowledge to the other the receipt of every list, and shall, as soon as possible after its receipt, give notice of any error which may be discovered therein.

(f.) If at any time the package containing the paid money orders transmitted by one Administration to the other be lost while in transit by mail, it is agreed that a certified copy of the lists shall, within a reasonable time, be accepted by the other Administration as a satisfactory voucher and evidence of payment of the orders described therein which have been lost or destroyed.

XI. A post office in either country which issues a money order payable in the other is required to transmit to the post office charged with its payment, by the first mail after the issue thereof, an advice corresponding in number, date, and amount to the money order of which it forms a part.

These advices must be enclosed in envelopes specially provided for the purpose, and are to be carried free from any charge. The address shall include the district if payable in British Guiana.

XII. The orders drawn by each country upon the other shall be subject as regards payment to the regulations which govern the payment of money orders in the country on which they are drawn.

XIII. Money orders lost or destroyed will be replaced by duplicates which may be issued by the Administration of the country of payment from the particulars furnished in the original advice. It is understood, however, that duplicate orders are not to be paid on the authority of corrected or second advices until the consent of the issuing Administration has been obtained.

XIV. At the request of the paying country, a lost advice will be replaced without delay by a duplicate which will be issued by the head office of the issuing country.

XV.-(a.) The money orders issued in pursuance of this Convention shall be valid until the expiration of twelve months from the last day of the month in which issued.

(b.) After the expiration of that period the advices of unpaid orders shall be returned to the Administration of the country of origin accompanied by a detailed statement.

XVI. Repayment of money orders to remitters shall not be made until the advices have been returned and an authorization for such repayment shall first have been obtained from the country of payment. case of the loss of the original advice, a certificate that the amount has not been paid will be sufficient.

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XVII. Should it appear that money orders are used by mercantile men in Surinam or British Guiana for the transmission of large sums of money, or in case of a great advance in the rate of exchange, or other circumstances creating abuses or acting injuriously to the postal revenue, either country shall be at liberty to increase the commission or suspend the issue of money orders for a time.

XVIII. Section 1. Within six weeks after the close of each fiscal quarter, two copies of an account shall be prepared and transmitted by the Post Office Department of British Guiana to the Post Office Department of Surinam, exhibiting the balance found due on the exchange of money orders during the quarter, one copy of which, after proper verification and acceptance, shall be returned to the Post Office Department of British Guiana.

(a.) If the account shows a balance in favour of Surinam, the Post Office Department of British Guiana shall transmit a bill of exchange on Amsterdam, Holland, for the amount of such balance at the same time that it forwards the account.

(b.) If, on the other hand, the account shows a balance in favour of British Guiana, the Surinam Department shall transmit a bill of exchange on London, England, for the amount immediately after the acceptance of the account.

Section 2. If, pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Administrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding 300l., or 3,600 florins, the indebted Administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance.

Section 3. The expense attending the remittance of the balances shall invariably be borne by the debtor country.

XIX. If the Surinam Office should desire to send money orders to any of the colonies or countries with which the British Guiana Post Office has an exchange of money orders, it shall be at liberty to do so, provided that the following conditions are fulfilled :

(a.) The Surinam Post Office must advise the amounts on a list addressed to the Postmaster-General, Georgetown, who will readvise them to the exchange or other offices of the colonies or countries of payment.

(b.) The full name and address must be given of the remitter and of the payee; and in addition to the name of the office at which the order is payable, the name of the country must be clearly stated, as well as the State or county (if any).

(c.) The "through" orders so received at British Guiana will be treated as paid orders immediately on receipt, and their value charged against the Surinam Post Office. No allowance shall be made to British Guiana on the payment of such orders, but the British Guiana Office shall deduct from each order reissued, for the intermediary service, a sum equal to one-half of that charged to the public of British Guiana on money orders drawn on the respective countries.

(d.) When the amount of a "through" order is repaid to the remitter, the commission charged for the intermediary service shall not be refunded.

In like manner, orders may be sent by the British Guiana Post Office to any of the colonies or countries with which the Surinam Post Office has an exchange of money orders.

XX. The present Convention shall take effect on the 1st October, 1910, and shall remain in force until the expiration of a period of one year after the date upon which one of the two contracting Administrations shall have notified the other of its intention to terminate it.

Done in duplicate, and signed:

At Georgetown, British Guiana, on the 17th day of
August, 1910.

A. W. SWAIN, Postmaster-General.
At Paramaribo, Surinam, on the 30th day of
August, 1910.

L. A. Y. STRUYCKEN,

Acting Administrator of Finance.

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CONVENTION concerning the Exchange of Post Office Money Orders between New Zealand and Norway. Signed at Christiania, June 14, and at Wellington, August 24, 1910.

THE Post Office of the Dominion of New Zealand and the Post Office of the Kingdom of Norway being desirous of facilitating the transmission of money between New Zealand and Norway by means of Post Office money orders, the undersigned duly authorized for the purpose have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. Remittances of money may be made by means of Post Office money orders as well from New Zealand to Norway as from Norway to New Zealand.

No money orders shall exceed in amount the sum of 40l., or the equivalent of that sum in Norwegian currency.

Nevertheless, the two Administrations have power subsequently to modify this maximum whenever they mutually recognize the necessity for doing so.

II. There shall be charged for each remittance of money effected in pursuance of the preceding Article a commission, which shall be fixed by the Administration of the country of issue, and shall be chargeable to the remitter of the money.

Official money orders relative to the Postal Service, and sent from one Postal Administration to another or between offices subordinate to those Administrations are exempt from all charges.

III. The Administration of the country of issue shall allow to the Administration of the country of payment per cent. of the total amount of money orders other than official money orders issued in the first-mentioned country and payable in the other.