credit of the Post Office Department of the United States on account of
the exchange of money orders between the United States and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; if due by the Post Office De-
partment of the United States, the balance shall likewise be paid to the
General Post Office at London, to the credit of the General Post Office ances.
of New South Wales.

Payment of bal

If pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Ad- Payment on acministrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding count pending setfive hundred pounds (£500) sterling, the indebted Administration shall tlement. promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance to the credit

of the other.

This account shall be in accordance with the forms “D,” “E,” “F,” and "G," annexed to this Convention.

Forms "D," "E," "F."

ARTICLE 13.

Until the two Postal Administrations shall consent to an alteration, Equivalent value it is agreed that in all matters of account, relative to money-orders, of the pound sterwhich shall result from the execution of the present Convention, the ling. pound sterling of Great Britain shall be considered as equivalent to four dollars, eighty seven cents of the money of the United States.

ARTICLE 14.

The Postal Administration in each country shall be authorized to Additional rates. adopt any additional rules, (if not repugnant to the foregoing,) for the greater security against fraud, or, for the better working of the system generally.

All such additional rules, however, must be promptly communicated to the Post Office of the other country.

ARTICLE 15.

The present Convention shall take effect on the first day of January, 1882, and shall continue in force until twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have notified to the other its intention to terminate it.

Commencement.

Termination.

Date of execu

Done in duplicate and signed in Washington on the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1881, and in Sydney on the twenty tion. ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1881.

THOMAS L. JAMES,

Postmaster General of the United States.
F. B. SUTTER

Postmaster General of New South Wales.

[Seal of the Post Office Department
of the United States.]

[Seal of General Post Office of
New South Wales.]

I hereby approve the foregoing convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.

[Seal of the United States]

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

By the President

JAMES G. BLAINE,

Secretary of State.

WASHINGTON, December 8th, 1881

Signatures.

List No......

B.

Stamp of San Francisco Oflice

SIR: I have the honor to transmit to you herewith in duplicate, a List containing a detailed statement of the sums received in the United States since my last dispatch (List No......), for orders payable in New South Wales, amounting in the aggiegate to £

Be pleased to examine, complete, and return to me the original copy of this List, with your acknowledgment of its receipt indorsed thereon.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

To the POSTMASTER,

Money-Order Exchange Othce,

Postmaster, San Francisco.

Sydney