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AMENDED CONVENTION—CANADA. MAY mn Jmm, 1880. 75] received from its inland offices, shall have been stamped as genuine during such week. One copy of each of these Lists shall be transmitted to the Superintendent of the Money-Order System at Washington D.C. and the other to the Superintendent of the Money-Order Branch, Ottawa; Ontario. 3. The above mentioned weekly Lists when made out by the Canadian Exchange Offices shall conform to Model ** C", and when made out by the United States Exchange Oiilces, to model “D", both models being hereto annexed. .4. The weekly lists, and also the entries therein shall be ’numbered consecutively throughout the fiscal year, beginning with number one on the first day of July, and ending with the last number included in the business of the year. 5. After the close of the quarter ending June 30th of each year, supplementary lists may be sent, if occasion requires, containing an entry of every order issued during that Quarter, the advice of which had not been previously certified. 6. Should it happen during any week that no advices of money orders have been received at an Exchange Office, alist must nevertheless be forwarded, but in such event, the words, “ no business”, must be written across the list. 7. Each Department or Administration shall promptly acknowledge to the other the receipt of every list received from any Exchange Office in the other country, and shall, as soon after its receipt as possible, give notice of any errors which it may discovertherein. - ARTICLE 4. In the exchange of money orders between the two countries, one dol- Standard of valla·1" in Canadian money shall be taken as the equivalent of one dollar in "§?d°§0‘l;““’ *° b° United States money. This standard in either country shall be gold g ‘ va ue. Anrxcm 5. L A fee, to be fixed by the country of origin, shall be collected from b P`$<=m€2tB*;<> Paid Elle remitter upon each sum of money transmitted under this conven- Y “ ‘ ion. 2- Each Administration shall communicate to the other the t3»I‘ii'f t0S°£*;‘1“£I;’; gf 0I` Schedule of fees to be established by it under the provisions of this cmd to mlm ML Article, and also any subsequent change therein. d mgnstratiozg. der 3. The erson entitled to the ayment of a Money Order iSS116 in ”*Y°" ° .°r Pursuancepof this Convention shall not be subjected under any pretext aft \V}56·teVer to any commission or tax on account of the payment of such Ohargg or er. _ 4- Each Postal Administration shall keep the fee which it rece1vcs for Comunssions, orders issued within its jurisdiction, but shall pay to the other a commission of ono-half of one per centum upon the total amount of such orders, and shall also refund to the Admimstration of the country of origin one—halt’ of one per cent. on the amounts of all void orders and orders the repayment of which shall have been authorized. - Anzrroms 6. 1- Pa ment of a mono order in pursuance of this Convent10u,c8·I1 P=1Ym°¤t of 0* be 0X3c{ed only at the Spayinglpost office named Hp0H the Orilcrkzllif d°"‘ HOT? Until after the receipt by that office of the 3»d.V1C0 I‘eql11I'6<l by _ ‘ cle 8 hereof. But the Chief Office in either country may, at its discrgci HOD, cause a. money order to be paid at an office other than that tllgié uP0D the advice. Lists of such changes shall be sent to the Chled 3; in the other country at uch periods as may be mutually agree up between the two Administrations.