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Un drapeau rouge ou un double feu blanc signifie que la voie n'est pas libre.

6. Tout navire prêt à entrer dans le canal devra avoir ses verges brassées en pointe et ses embarcations en dedans. Outre les deu ancres de bossoir règlementaires, il devra avoir à l'arrière et prête à être mouillée une forte ancre à jet munie d'une amarre capable d'arrêter le navire.

7. La navigation de nuit est autorisée. Les navires devront être munis d'appareils d'éclairage.

8. En cas d'échouage les agents de la Société auront le droit de prescrire toutes les opérations de déséchouage et de faire u besoin décharger et remorquer le bâtiment aux frais du navire.

Les dits frais de déséchouage, de remorquage, de déchargement et de rechargement devront être payés avant le départ du navire. 9. Il est interdit aux capitaines

(1.) De mouiller dans le canal, sauf en cas de force majeure; (2.) De jeter dans le canal des escarbilles ou cendres ou objets quelconques;

(3.) De laisser tirer des coups de feu de leur bord.

10. Le tonnage net résultant du système de jaugeage adopté par la Commission Internationale de Constantinople et inscrit sur les papiers officiels de bord sert de base à la perception du droit de péage, qui est provisoirement

Pour les steamers en provenance ou à destination de l'Adriatique:

De 75 centimes par tonne pour les paquebots postaux ou portant habituellement des passagers;

Et 50 centimes par tonne pour les autres navires.

Et

pour les steamers qui ne sont pas en provenance ou à destination de l'Adriatique :

50 centimes par tonne pour les paquebots postaux ou portant habituellement des passagers et 40 centimes pour tous les autres navires.

Il sera perçu en outre 1 fr. par tête de passager.

11. Seront exempts de péage

(1.) Les bâtiments de guerre Helléniques, sauf ceux qui leur sont assimilés par suite de Conventions particulières ;

(2.) Les bateaux pêcheurs et autres sous pavillon Hellénique dont le tonnage ne dépasse pas 3 tonnes.

12. Les frais de remorquage dans le canal par le service de la Société sont fixés à 10 centimes par tonne; la somme perçue ne devant pas être inférieure à 50 fr.

Le droit de pilotage est fixé à 14 centimes par tonne; la somme perçue ne devant pas être inférieure à 10 fr.

13. Tout navire remorqué devra fournir ses amarres.

es steamers devront conserver leurs machines fonctionnant ou es à fonctionner pour aider au remorqueur.

bes navires peuvent se faire remorquer par des remorqueurs partenant pas à la Société du Canal.

Ces remorqueurs seront soumis au paiement du droit de péage me les navires en transit.

Lorsqu'ils traverseront le canal, soit pour aller au devant des ires de leurs armateurs qu'ils devront remorquer, soit regagnant résidence après les avoir remorqués, ils ne seront pas soumis paiement du droit.

14. La Société accepte en paiement les traites payable à vue, ées par les capitaines sur leurs armateurs agréés par la Société. Les paiements en espèces à l'entrée du canal doivent être faits en onnaies d'or du type des monnaies de l'Union Latine ou en livres erling au change fixe de 25'15 fr., ou en pièces de 20 marks change fixe de 24-85 fr.;

Ou en livres Turques au change fixe de 22.75 fr.;

Ou en livres Egyptiennes au change fixe de 25.75 fr.

Les monnaies d'argent ayant cours légal en Grèce sont acceptées paiement pour appoint jusqu'à 10 fr.

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CONVENTION between the United States of America and the Colony of British Guiana, for the Exchange of Money Orders.-Signed at Washington, May 25, 1892.

FOR the purpose of establishing a system of exchange of money orders between the United States of America and the Colony of British Guiana, the undersigned John Wanamaker, PostmasterGeneral of the United States of America, and Sir Julian Pauncefote, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, by virtue of

authority vested in them respectively, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. J. There shall be a regular exchange of money order between the United States and the Colony of British Guiana.

The maximum of each money order is fixed at 107. when issued. British Guiana, and when issued in the United States at 50 dolla in the money of the latter country.

This maximum may be increased to 20l. and 100 dollars respectively by mutual agreement between the Post Office Depart

ments of the two countries.

cent.

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

The amount of each order must be expressed in letters in the money of the country in which payment is to be made, and te 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 British Guiana 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 shal 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 Britis Guiana its tariff of charges or rates of commission which shal be established under this Convention, and the Postal Administration of British Guiana 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 he 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 t the postal revenue.

III. Each of the two countries included in this Convention shal keep the commission charged on all money orders issued within its jurisdiction, but shall pay to the country to which such moner 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 t post offices of the United States on the one part, and the post-offices of British Guiana on the other part, shall be performed exclusively by the intermediary agency of offices of exchange. On the part

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United States, the office of exchange shall be New York, New I, and on the part of British Guiana, the office of exchange shall ieorgetown, British Guiana.

Orders shall be drawn only on the authorized money order offices he respective countries included in this Convention, and the Post ce Department of the United States shall furnish to the Postal ninistration of British Guiana a list of such offices in the United tes, and shall from time to time report any addition to or change such list, and the Postal Administration of British Guiana shall nish the Post Office Department of the United States with a list such offices in British Guiana, and shall from time to time report 7 addition or change in such list.

Every money order and advice must contain the name of the st-office and of the country of destination, and, if payable in : United States, the name of the State in which such office is uated.

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

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

VI. The advices of all money orders drawn upon post-offices in ritish Guiana by post-offices in the United States shall be sent to be 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 Georgetown, 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 Georgetown, 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 postoffices in the United States by post-offices in British Guiana shall be sent to the office of exchange at Georgetown, 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 [1892-93. LXXXV.]

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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 mont of June, and, in like manuer, the advices of money orders issued in British Guiana in the month of June which may arrive at the exchange office at Georgetown 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.

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 amounts 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 July in each year, and the entries in these lists s'ali 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 explanati n 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, sha 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 British Guiana, and money orders issued in British Guiana on postoffices 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 remitters shall not be made until an authorization for such repayment shall first have been

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