Detailed Account of Money Orders issued in the United Kingdom, and payable in Sweden for the Month above mentioned.

List of Money Orders issued in the United Kingdam upon Sweden for which authority has been given to the Country of Issue to effect Repayment to the Remitters.

General Statement of the Result of the Exchange of Money Orders between the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Done in duplicate, and signed in London on the 7th day of September, 1881, and in Stockholm on the 12th day of September, 1881.

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(L.S.)

HENRY FAWCETT. WILHELM ROOS.

SWITZERLAND.

ARRANGEMENT for the Exchange of Money Orders between the Money Order Department of India and the Post Office of the Swiss Confederation. Signed at Berne, June 1, 1875; and at London, June 17, 1875.

IN order to establish an exchange of money orders between India and Switzerland, the Undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose, have, subject to ratification, agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. There shall be a regular exchange of money orders. between India and Switzerland by means of the weekly mail service viâ Brindisi.

II. The money order business between the two countries shall be performed exclusively through offices of exchange communicating with each other by means of lists, as explained more particularly below, the money orders being made out and forwarded to the payces by the office of exchange of the country in which the orders are payable. The office of exchange shall be, on the side of India, Bombay, and, on the side of Switzerland, the office that will be designated afterwards.

III. The amount of orders exchanged in both directions shall be expressed in sterling money.

IV. The maximum amount for which a money order may be drawn in either country upon the other shall be 107.

V. No money order shall contain a fractional part of a penny.

VI. The manner and conditions of issuing money orders in either country shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of issue.

VII. The cost of money orders, i.e., the amounts to be paid for them by the remitters in the currency of the country of issue, shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of issue.

Each country shall communicate to the other the regula

tions relating to the charges for money orders issued in force for the time being.

VIII. Applications by remitters for the alteration or correction of the name of the payee shall be received under the regulations of the country of issue, and forwarded to the country of payment for disposal under its regulations, accompanied by such information as may be necessary for the identification of the particular orders referred to.

Applications by remitters for repayment of orders shall be received and forwarded in like manner, the repayment being made only under the authority of the country of payment, and according to the regulations of the country of issue.

IX. The conversion of money orders into the currency of the country of payment shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of payment.

Each country shall communicate to the other the regulations, for the time in force, relating to the conversion of money orders expressed in sterling money into its own currency for the purpose of payment.

X. The manner and conditions of paying orders, including stoppage of payment, renewal of orders, issue of duplicate orders, and other services affecting payment, shall be governed by the regulations in force for the time being in the country of payment.

XI. The amount of money orders not ultimately paid, i.e., of orders which become void under the regulations of the country of payment, shall belong to the country of issue.

XII. The country of issue which collects the money from remitters shall account to the country of payment for the total amount of the orders issued, together with 1 per cent. additional on the total by way of commission.

XIII. The two offices of exchange shall communicate to each other by each mail the particulars of money orders issued by means of lists of the annexed forms marked (A) and (AA), giving all particulars for which provision is made in the forms.

The particulars as to names shall include the surname, and at least the initial of one Christian name, both of the remitter and of the payee, or, in the case of natives of India, the name, tribe or caste, and father's name, or the name of the firm or company who are the remitters or payees. The address of the payee must be given fully and precisely, as on it depends the determination by the receiving office of exchange of the office where the order shall be made payable.

XIV. Besides the particulars of money orders issued, the lists mentioned in Article XIII shall contain particulars of orders authorized to be repaid to the remitters.

XV. Blank lists shall be forwarded in case there shall be no money orders to communicate.

XVI. Should any list fail to be received in due course, the despatching office shall, on receiving information to that effect, transmit without delay a duplicate thereof.

XVII. The lists despatched from each office of exchange shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with No. 1 for the first list of each calendar year, and these numbers shall be termed the "list numbers."

XVIII. The entries in the lists respecting orders issued shall also bear consecutive numbers, commencing with No. 1 for each list, and these numbers shall be termed the "entry numbers."

XIX. Each list shall be accompanied by a transmitting letter of the form annexed, bearing the same number and date as the list. This transmitting letter shall mention the number of applications forwarded from remitters affecting orders previously issued; it shall give information respecting the disposal of similar applications received from the other office of exchange, and it shall contain an acknowledgment of the list or lists received since the date of the previous letter.

XX. Each list shall be carefully verified by the receiving office of exchange, and corrected when it contains simple errors, such corrections being noted at the foot of the transmitting letter containing the acknowledgment of the receipt of the list.

XXI. When a list shall contain errors or irregularities which cannot be rectified without previous communication with the despatching office, the receiving office shall, at the time of acknowledging the receipt, request an explanation from the despatching office. This explanation shall be given with as little delay as possible, and meantime the payment of orders dependent on the irregular entries shall be suspended.

XXII. As soon as the Swiss office of exchange shall have received from India acknowledgments of the receipt of all the lists bearing dates in any quarter, these lists, as well as the Indian lists bearing dates in the same quarter, shall be made the subject of a quarterly account in the annexed Form (B).

XXIII. The account mentioned in Article XXII shall be based on the lists as corrected by the receiving office, any entries at the time under suspension pending explanation being excluded.

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XXIV. The account shall also include, under the head of Special Items," any necessary adjustments of previous accounts (such as adjustments on account of suspended entries), as well as any other items of account not otherwise provided for; a detailed statement of such special items being annexed to the account, and the correspondence or other documents forming the authority for each special item being quoted opposite it in the statement.