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CONVENTIOlN—CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Annu. 9, 1884, JUNE, 9, 1884. 769 to the other a list of such offices, and shall from time to time, notify any addition to, or change in such list. Every order and advice must contain the name of the office and of the country of destination, and if relating to an order payable in the United States, the name of the State m which such office is situated. Anrrcnn 5. No money-order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish the F°FW*¤di¤8 °¤'· name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid and d°"‘ his own name and address; or the name of the Erm or company who are the remitters or payees, together with the addresses of each. The money-orders issued in either country shall be forwarded by the remitters to the payees at their own expense. Anrrom; 6. The advices of all money-orders issued upon the Cape Colony by the Advices. post-offices of the United States shall be sent to the office of exchange at New York, where they shall be impressed with a dated stamp (Form pcm aA_» ‘A’) showing the amount to be paid in sterling money and transmitted by the next mail to the exchange office at Cape Town, accompanied by a list, in duplicate, drawn upon the model of Form ‘B.’ lhynn u1;," These advices on their arrival in Cape Town shall be compared with the entries in the list and, afterwards, despatched to the paying offices. In like manner the advices of money—orders drawn ou the United States by postmasters in the Cape Colony shall be sent to the exchange office at Cape Town, shall there be impressed with a dated stamp (Form ‘A’) showing the, amount to be paid in the United States money and be despatched accompanied by a li t in duplicate, (Form •C’) to the office of exchange at New York, N. Y., by next mail. The advices on their receipt at New York shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards despatched to the paying offices. The advices oforders issued in the United States in the month of June which may arrive at the office of exchange at New York in the earlier days of the following month shall be entered on lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June, and in like manner, the advices of orders issued in the Cape Colony in the month of June which may arrive at the exchange office at Cape Town in the earlier days of the following mouth shall be entered on lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of June. Each exchange office shall certify its orders to the other in amounts designated in the denominations of the money both of the despatching and receiving country at the rate of conversion established by Article 13 of this Convention. The amounts so converted shall be checked at the receiving ohice of exchange. Anrxonn 7. The lists despatched from each office of exchange shall be numbered Lists to be numconsecutively, commencing with number 1 at the begmmng of the;>i¤r?d ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤- month of July in each year; and the entries m these lists shall, also, '° Y· have consecutive numbers. _ _ Of each list despatched a duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate Duplicate sets. after being verified by the receiving ohice of exchange shall be returned _ to the despatching office of exchange. _ Each office of exchange shall promptly communicate to the other the Errorscorrection of any simple error which it may discover in the verification of the lists. _ _ _ When the lists shall show irregularities which the receiving office Irregulurities. of exchange shall not be able to rectify, that office shall apply for_an explanation to the clespatching exchange office, and such explanation xxiii-—-49