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your attention until the ordinary meeting of Parliament in the spring.

SPEECH of the Queen, on the Closing of the British Parliament.- Westminster, December 15, 1900.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I THANK you for the liberal provision which you have made for the expenses incurred by the operations of my armies in South Africa and China.

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17th

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES to the Money Order Convention between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary of the 12th June, 1885,* relative to the Exchange of Telegraph Money Orders with Austria. Signed at London, January 17, and at Vienna, January 27, 1900.†

THE Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Minister of Commerce of Austria have agreed as follows:

ART. I. Telegraph money orders for sums not exceeding the maximum amount allowed in the case of ordinary money orders shall be exchanged between Austria and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

II. The sender of a telegraph money order shall be required to pay, in addition to the commission to be fixed and retained by the country of origin, the cost of a telegram of advice from one country to the other.

III. The telegram of advice shall be in the French language, and shall be forwarded from the office at which the order is issued to the office at which it is payable, the following form being adopted :

* Vol. LXXVI, page 68.

+ Signed also in the German language.

Service Instructions (in words or according to the abbreviations admitted in the Telegraphic Service).

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IV. The telegraph money orders, or the corresponding advices of the same, shall be delivered to the payees in accordance with the provisions of Articles LXV and XLVII of the Service Regulations appended to the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of Budapest).

V. The apportionment of the amounts received for telegrams of advice (Article III) shall accord with the regulations respecting the apportionment of amounts received for ordinary telegrams.

VI. As in the case of ordinary money orders, the Administration of the country of issue shall account to the Administration of the country of payment for one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of telegraph money orders paid. To this end the telegraph money orders shall be entered separately by the respective Offices of Exchange at the end of the advice lists for ordinary money orders with the heading "Advised by telegraph."

VII. Telegraph money orders exchanged by one of the countries above named over the wires of the other with a third country are subject to the provisions of Article LXVI of the Service Regulations above quoted.

VIII. In case 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 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

* Name of the remitter or remitters in accordance with the regulations for ordinary money orders.

† Amount in figures and words in French currency (francs and centimes) so long as the Administrations do not arrange for the amount to be indicated in the money of the country of payment.

Name and address in full of the payee or payees, in accordance with the regulations applying to ordinary money orders.

§ Text of message which the sender wishes to be communicated to the receiver of the order. This message may be written in plain or secret language in accordance with the provisions of Articles VI, VII, VIII, and IX of the Service Regulations appended to the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of Budapest).

loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in connection with the transmission of a telegram of advice over the telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company.

IX. In other respects telegraph money orders shall be subject to the same general conditions as ordinary money orders.

X. The provisions of the above Additional Articles shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1900.

Done in duplicate and signed at London, on the 17th day of January, 1900; and at Vienna, on the 27th day of January, 1900.

(L.S.) NORFOLK.
(L.S.) NEUBAUER.

3rd

17th

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES to the Money Order Convention between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary, dated the th June, 1885, relative to the Exchange of Telegraph Money Orders with Hungary.—Signed at London, January 17, and at Budapest, January 24, 1900.†

THE Postmaster - General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Minister of Commerce of Hungary have agreed as follows:

ART. I. Telegraph money orders for sums not exceeding the maximum amount allowed in the case of ordinary money orders shall be exchanged between Hungary and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

II. The sender of a telegraph money order shall be required to pay, in addition to the commission to be fixed and retained by the country of origin, the cost of a telegram of advice from one country to the other.

III. The telegram of advice shall be in the French language, and shall be forwarded from the office at which the order is issued to the office at which it is payable, the following form being adopted :

* Vol. LXXVI, page 68.

+ Signed also in the Hungarian language.

Service Instructions (in words or according to the abbreviations admitted in the Telegraph Service).

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IV. The telegraph money orders or the corresponding advices of the same shall be delivered to the payees in accordance with the provisions of Articles LXV and XLVII of the Service Regulations above quoted.

V. The apportionment of the amounts received for telegrams of advice (Article III) shall accord with the regulations respecting the apportionment of amounts received for ordinary telegrams.

VI. As in the case of ordinary money orders, the Administration of the country of issue shall account to the Administration of the country of payment for one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of telegraph money orders paid. To this end the telegraph money orders shall be entered separately by the respective Offices of Exchange at the end of the advice lists for ordinary money orders, with the heading " Advised by telegraph."

VII. Telegraph money orders exchanged by one of the countries above named over the wires of the other with a third country are subject to the provisions of Article LXVI of the Service Regulations above quoted.

VIII. In 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 Hungarian 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

* Name of the remitter or remitters, in accordance with the regulations for ordinary money orders.

† Amount in figures and words in French currency of francs and centimes, so long as the Administrations do not arrange for the amount to be indicated in the money of the country of payment.

‡ Name and address in full of the payee or payees, in accordance with the regulations applying to ordinary money orders.

§ Text of message which the sender wishes to be communicated to the receiver of the order. This message may be in plain or secret language, in accordance with the provisions of Articles VI, VII, VIII, and IX of the Service Regulations appended to the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of Budapest).

any loss which may be incurred through a fraud or an error in connection with the transmission of a telegram of advice over the telegraph lines of an intermediate country or a cable company.

IX. In other respects telegraph money orders shall be subject to the same general conditions as ordinary money orders.

X. The provisions of the above Additional Articles shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1900.

Done in duplicate and signed at London, on the 17th day of January, 1900; and at Budapest, on the 24th day of January, 1900.

(L.S.) NORFOLK.

(L.S.) SZALAY PÉTER.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and France, regulating the Telegraphic Communication between the two Countries.Signed at Paris, February 17, 1900.

[Ratifications exchanged at Paris, April 2, 1900.]

HER Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the French Republic being desirous to secure, from the 1st April, 1900, the telegraphic relations between the two countries, the Undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have agreed as follows:

ART. I. The charge for ordinary telegrams exchanged directly between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Channel Islands, on the one hand, and France (Continent and Corsica), on the other hand, is fixed at 20 centimes per word, with a minimum of 1 fr. per telegram.

II. The charges relating to the number of words transmitted, collected by either country for the direct traffic ("limitrophe"),

LE Gouvernement de Sa Majesté Britannique et le Gouvernement de la République Française désirant assurer, à partir du 1er Avril, 1900, les relations télégraphiques entre les deux pays, les Soussignés, dûment autorisés à cet effet, sont convenus de ce qui suit :

ART. I. La taxe des télé

grammes ordinaires échangés directement entre le RoyaumeUni de Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande et les Iles Anglaises de la Manche, d'une part, et la France (Continent et Corse), d'autre part, est fixée à 20 centimes par mot, avec minimum de 1 fr. par télégramme.

II. Les taxes afférentes au nombre de mots transmis, perçues de part et d'autre pour le trafic limitrophe, les sommes payées

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