of time prescribed under the regulations of the country of origin revert to the Administration of that country. VIII. In cases of fictitious Telegraph Orders ostensibly issued in one of the contracting countries, and paid in the other, the responsibility for any losses involved shall be shared equally by the Austrian and British Postal Administrations, if it be found impossible to determine in which of the two countries a fraud may have been committed. The two Administrations shall in like manner share any loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in connexion with the transmission of a telegram of advice over the telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company. IX. (1) The accounts relating to the exchange of Money Orders between the contracting Administrations shall be prepared by the Austrian Post Office. The precise conditions governing the preparation of these accounts are specified in the Detailed Regulations provided for in the following Article XIII. (2) The balances of the accounts shall be settled through the medium of the Account Division of the International Bureau of the Postal Union. For this purpose, the amount to the credit of each Administration shall be converted into franc currency according to the gold standard (100 crowns = 105 fr. 014 c. 107. sterling 252 fr. 21.5 c.). X. For the issue and payment of Money Orders exchanged between the contracting Administrations the internal regulations of each country shall apply in so far as no other regulations are made under this Agreeement and the relative Detailed Regulations. XI. Should the Austrian Post Office desire to send Money Order remittances through the medium of the British Post Office to any of the Foreign Countries, British Colonies, &c., with which the British Post Office transacts Money Order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under the conditions set forth in Article XIII of the Detailed Regulations; and should the British Post Office in like manner desire to send Money Order remittances through the medium of the Austrian Post Office to any countries with which the Austrian Post Office transacts Money Order business it shall be at liberty to do so under similar conditions. XII. Each of the two Administrations shall have power to suspend for a time Money Order transactions with the other Administration in extraordinary circumstances of a kind that would justify the measure, on condition of giving im mediate notice thereof, by telegraph if necessary, to the other Administration. XIII. Measures of detail and regulation necessary for carrying out this agreement shall be mutually settled by the contracting Administrations. XIV. This Agreement shall be deemed to have come into force as from the 1st of April, 1904, and shall be terminable by either contracting party at any time on giving six months' notice. On the day of the completion of the present Agreement, the Money Order Agreement dated the 3rd, 12th, and 17th of June, 1885,* as well as all additional Articles to that Agreement, shall terminate. Executed in duplicate, and signed— In London on the 28th of October, 1905. (L.S.) STANLEY. AGREEMENT between the British and Hungarian Post Offices for the Exchange of Money Orders. Signed at London, October 28, and at Budapest, November 16, 1905.† ART. I. Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hungary there shall be a regular exchange of Money Orders. II. (1) Money Orders may be remitted either by post or by telegraph according to the desire of the sender. (2) The exchange of Money Orders by post shall take place exclusively through the medium of offices of exchange, to be designated by the contracting Administrations by mutual agreement. III. (1) Money Orders, whether ordinary or telegraph, issued in the United Kingdom for payment in Hungary shall be made out in crowns and fillers; and those issued in Hungary for payment in the United Kingdom shall be made out in sterling currency. The amounts of Money Orders paid into the Post Office by the remitters shall be converted into the metallic money of the country of destination, the rate of *See Vol. 17, page 247. † Signed also in Hungarian. conversion being fixed by the Administration of the country of issue. Payment may be effected in coin or in paper money in legal circulation in the country of destination on condition that due allowance is made for any difference in exchange value. (2) The contracting Administrations shall communicate reciprocally the rate of conversion which is adopted in one country for the amounts of Money Orders payable in the other country, and also any changes which may be made in this respect. IV. (1) In the case of Orders issued at Post Offices in the United Kingdom for payment in Hungary the maximum amount for a single Order is fixed at 401. sterling, and for Orders sent in the reverse direction at 1,000 crowns. (2) In the issue of Money Orders no account shall be taken of any sum less than one filler or one penny. V. (1) Each Administration shall fix for itself the charges to be made for the Money Orders which it may issue for payment in the other country. The contracting Administrations shall communicate reciprocally the charges fixed, and also any alterations which may be made in those charges. (2) The Administration of the country of origin shall retain the charges, but shall credit the other Administration with of 1 per cent. on the total amount of such of the Money Orders as are paid by the country of destination. (3) The sender of a Telegraph Money Order has to pay, besides the ordinary charges, the charge for the Money Order telegram. VI. The sender of a Money Order shall be permitted to require the return of the amount or to make corrections with regard to the name or address of the payee so long as the Order remains unpaid, and provided that the amount has not already reverted to the country of origin under the provisions of Article VII. Repayment of the amount of a Money Order to the sender shall only take place after it has been ascertained that the Administration of the country of destination has not paid and will not pay the amount in question. VII. The amounts of Money Orders which have not been claimed by the payees after the expiration of the limit of time. prescribed under the regulations of the country of origin, shall revert to the Administration of that country. VIII. In the cases of fictitious Orders ostensibly issued in one of the contracting countries and paid in the other, the responsibility for any losses involved shall be shared equally by the British and Hungarian Postal Administration if it be found impossible to determine in which of the two countries a fraud may have been committed. The two Administrations shall in like manner share any loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in connexion with the transmission of a telegram of advice over the telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company. IX. (1) The accounts relating to the exchange of Money Orders between the United Kingdom and Hungary shall be prepared by the Hungarian Post Office. The Detailed Regulations provided for in the following Article XIII contain the conditions governing the preparation of the accounts in question. (2) The balances of the accounts shall be settled through the medium of the Account Division of the International Bureau of the Postal Union. For this purpose the amount to the credit of each Administration shall be converted into franc currency according to the gold standard (100 crowns = 105 fr. 014 c.: 107. = 252 fr. 21 5 c.). = X. In all the circumstances not provided for by the present Agreement and the relative Detailed Regulations, the Money Order service between the United Kingdom and Hungary shall be subject to the internal regulations of the country concerned. Xl. Should the Hungarian Post Office desire to send Money Order remittances through the medium of the British Post Office to any of the Foreign Countries, British Colonies, &c., with which the British Post Office transacts Money Order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under the conditions set forth in Article XIII of the Detailed Regulations; and should the British Post Office in like manner desire to send Money Order remittances through the medium of the Hungarian Post Office to any countries with which the Hungarian Post Office transacts Money Order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under similar conditions. XII. Each of the two Administrations shall have power, in extraordinary circumstances of a kind that would justify the measure, to suspend for a time Money Order transactions with the other Administration on condition of giving immediate notice thereof, by telegraph if necessary, to the other Administration. XIII. Measures of detail for carrying out this arrangement shall be mutually settled by the contracting Administrations. XIV. This Agreement shall be deemed to have come into force as from the 1st of April, 1904, and shall be terminable by either contracting party at any time on giving six months' notice. On the day of the completion of the present Agreement, the Money Order Agreement dated the 3rd, 12th, and 17th of June, 1885,* as well as all additional Articles to that Agreement shall terminate. Executed in duplicate and signed in London on the 28th of October, 1905, in- (L.S.) STANLEY. (L.S.) PIERRE DE SZALAY. BELGIUM. CONVENTION between Great Britain and Belgium supplementing Article XIV of the Treaty of October 29, 1901,* for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals. Signed at London, March 5, 1907.† [Ratifications exchanged at London, April 17, 1907.] THE Government of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, having deemed it necessary to complete Article XIV of the Treaty of Extradition between Great Britain and Belgium of the 29th October, 1901, relative to the application of the stipulations of the Treaty to the extra-European Colonies and foreign Possessions of the two States, the Undersigned, duly authorized to that effect by their respective Governments, have agreed as follows: ART. I. In the relations of each of the High Contracting Parties with the extra-European Colonies and foreign Possessions of the other, the periods fixed by Articles IV, paragraph 1, † See Vol. 23, page 276. Signed also in French. *See Vol. 17, page 247. |