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attend the Mixed Courts every day on which British causes are taken during the six months of his tenure of office. A person who has been so selected, and who has been required to serve as an Assessor, shall not, unless with his consent or in case of necessity, be selected again until the expiration of 12 months after the termination of any entire period of six months for which he has been so selected.

A person selected as aforesaid, failing to serve when and as required, and failing to excuse his default on reasonable grounds to the satisfaction of the Judge, shall be liable to a penalty of 31., at the suit of such officer of the Court or other person as the Judge directs, for every day of such default; but the Judge, in his discretion, may mitigate or remit the penalty.

Any vacancy in the list of selected persons occurring by reason of death, removal, or other cause, may be supplied by the Judge, at his discretion, by lot, from the list of persons qualified to serve.

5. A party to a suit before any Ottoman Tribunal, being a British subject or British-protected person, shall, at the commencement of the said suit pay into the Consular Court of the district in which he is a resident the sum of 41. 48., but it shall be lawful for the Judge when the claim or counter-claim is for a large amount, or when the case lasts for many sittings, to order such further payment to be made by the said party as shall seem to the Judge just under the circumstances.

6. The fee of an Assessor shall be ordinarily 21. 2s. for each day of attendance; but under special circumstances, such as great distance to be travelled or impertauce or difficulty of the subjectmatter, the Judge may, in addition, allow a special additional fee, not exceeding 21. 2s. a-day, for one day or any number of days of attendance. If an Assessor attends pursuant to notice, and the case is adjourned without the Assessor having been required to remain in attendance for more than one hour, the fee shall be 17. 1s. only; but the Judge may, in his discretion, allow a fee not exceeding

21. 28.

7. The Judge may, in his discretion, on the ground of the poverty of the party or other special grounds, dispense with payment of the whole or any part of the sum required to be paid, or take security for payment thereof. The Assessor is entitled to his fees notwithstanding any such remission.

8. Every Judge (as hereinbefore defined) shall keep a separate account, under the name of the "Assessors' Fund Account," and shall carry to that fund all sums received from applicants for appointment of Assessors and all penalties as above mentioned.

CONVENTION between the Post Office Department of the United States and the Postal Administration of the Bahamas, for the Exchange of Money Orders.--Signed at Nassau, March 28, 1891; and at Washington, April 8, 1891.

THE Post Office Department of the United States of America and the Postal Administration of the Colony of the Bahamas being desirous of establishing a system of exchange of money orders between the two countries, the Undersigned, vested with the requisite authority for the purpose, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. There shall be a regular exchange of money orders between the United States and the Bahamas.

The maximum amount of each money order is fixed at 107. when issued in the Bahamas; and when issued in the United States, at 100 dollars in the money of the latter country.

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No money order shall include a fractional part of a penny or of a

The amount of each money order must be expressed in letters in the money of the country in which payment is to be made, and the equivalent of the money in the issuing country must also be shown in figures, at the rate of conversion fixed by Article XIII of the present Convention.

II. The Postal Administration of the Bahamas shall have power to fix the rates of commission on all money orders issued in that Colony, and the Post Office Department of the United States shall have the same power in regard to all money orders issued in the latter country.

The Post Office Department of the United States shall communicate, from time to time, to the Postal Administration of the Bahamas its tariff of charges or rates of commission which shall be established under this Convention, and the Postal Administration of the Bahamas shall communicate, from time to time, to the Post Office Department of the United States the tariff of charges or rates of commission which shall be established by the former under this Convention, and these rates shall, in all cases, be payable in advance by the remitters, and shall not be repayable.

It is understood, moreover, that the Postal Administrations of the two countries are each authorized to suspend temporarily the exchange of money orders in case the course of exchange, or any other circumstance, should give rise to abuses or cause detriment to the postal revenue.

III. Each of the two countries included in this Convention shall [1830-91. LXXXIII.]

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keep the commission charged on all money orders issued within its jurisdiction, but shall pay to the country to which such money orders are sent for payment one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of such orders.

IV. The service of the postal money-order system between the Post Offices of the United States on the one part and the Post Offices of the Bahamas on the other part shall be performed exclusively by the intermediary agency of Offices of Exchange. On the part of the United States the Office of Exchange shall be New York, New York, and on the part of the Bahamas the Office of Exchange shall be Nassau, New Providence.

Orders shall be drawn only on the authorized money-order offices of the respective countries included in this Convention, and the Post Office Department of the United States shall furnish to the Postal Administration of the Bahamas a list of such Offices of the United States, and shall, from time to time, notify any addition to or change in such list; and the Postal Administration of the Bahamas shall furnish the Post Office Department of the United States with a list of such Offices in the Bahamas, and shall, from time to time, notify any addition to or change in such list.

Every money order and advice must contain the name of the Post Office and of the country of destination, and, if payable in the United States, the name of the State in which such Office is situated.

V. No money order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish the name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid, and his own name and address, or unless the name of the firm or Company who are the remitters or the payees is given, together with the address of each.

The money orders issued in either country shall be forwarded by the remitters, at their own expense, to the payees.

VI. The advices of all money orders drawn upon Post Offices in the Bahamas by Post Offices in the United States shall be sent to the Office of Exchange at New York, where they shall be examined and, if found correct, impressed with the dated stamp of that Office and transmitted, by the next mail, to the Exchange Office at Nassau accompanied by a list thereof, in duplicate, which is to be drawn up in conformity with the model of Form (A), hereto annexed.

The advices, on their arrival at Nassau, shall be compared with the entries in the list, and promptly dispatched to the respective paying Offices.

In like manner, the advices of money orders drawn upon Post Offices in the United States by Post Offices in the Bahamas shall be sent to the Office of Exchange at Nassau, shall there be examined

and, if found correct, impressed with the dated stamp of that Office, and be dispatched to the Office of Exchange at New York, by the next mail, accompanied by a list thereof, in duplicate, which is to be drawn up in conformity with the model of Form (B).

The advices on their receipt at New York shall be compared with the entries in the list, and promptly dispatched to the respective paying Offices.

The advices of money orders issued in the United States in the month of December 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 December, and, in like manner, the advices of money orders issued in the Bahamas in the month of December which may arrive at the Exchange Office at Nassau in the earlier days of the following month shall be entered on lists supplementary to that of the last day of the month of December.

Each Exchange Office shall certify its money orders to the other on the lists, in amounts designated in the denominations of the money both of the dispatching and of the receiving country, at the rate of conversion established by Article XIII of this Convention. The amount so converted shall be checked at the receiving Office of Exchange.

VII. The lists dispatched from each Office of Exchange shall bear consecutive numbers commencing with No. 1 at the beginning of the month of January in each year; and the entries in these lists shall also have consecutive numbers.

Of each list dispatched a duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate, after being verified by the receiving Office of Exchange, shall be returned to the dispatching Office of Exchange.

Each Office of Exchange shall promptly communicate to the other the correction of any simple error which it may discover in the verification of the lists.

When the lists show irregularities which the receiving Exchange Office is not able to rectify, that Office shall apply for an explanation. to the dispatching Exchange Office, and such explanation shall be afforded without delay.

Should any list fail to be received in due course, the dispatching Exchange Office, on receipt of information to that effect, shall transmit, without delay, a duplicate of the list, duly certified as such.

VIII. Duplicate money orders shall be issued only by the Postal Administration of the country on which the original orders were drawn, and in conformity with the regulations established or to be established in that country.

IX. Money orders issued in the United States on Post Offices in

the Bahamas, and money orders issued in the Bahamas on Post Offices in the United States, shall be subject, as regards payment, to the regulations which govern the payment of money orders in the country on which they are drawn.

The paid money orders shall remain in the possession of the country of payment.

X. Repayment of money orders to the remitters shall not be made until an authorization for such repayment shall first have been obtained by the country of issue from the country where such orders are payable, and the amounts of the repaid money orders shall be duly credited to the former country in the quarterly account (Article XII). It is the province of each Postal Administration to determine the manner in which repayment to remitters is to be made.

XI. Money orders which shall not have been paid within 12 calendar months from the month of their issue shall become void, and the sums received therefor shall accrue to and be at the disposal of the country of origin.

The Postal Administration of the Bahamas shall, therefore, enter to the credit of the United States' Post Office Department, in the quarterly account, all those money orders entered in the lists received from the United States which remain unpaid at the end of the period specified (Article XII).

On the other hand, the Post Office Department of the United States shall, at the close of each month, transmit to the Postal Administration of the Bahamas, for entry in the quarterly account, a detailed statement of all money orders that are included in the lists dispatched from the latter country which under this Article become void.

XII. At the close of each quarter an account shall be prepared by the Postal Administration of the Bahamas showing, in detail, the totals of the lists containing the particulars of money orders issued in both countries during the quarter, and the balance resulting from such transactions.

Three copies of this account shall be transmitted to the Post Office Department of the United States at Washington, and the balance, after proper verification, shall, if due by the United States' Post Office Department, be paid at Nassau, but if due by the Postal Administration of the Bahamas, the balance shall be paid at New York, and in either case in the money of the country to which the payment is made. By mutual agreement, however, between the Post Office Department of the United States and the Postal Administration of the Bahamas, payments of balances may be made in money, or by drafts or bills of exchange on London, or other cities, instead of on Nassau and New York, at the rate of conversion fixed by Article XIII of this Convention.

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