provisions of, "The Transfer Duty Act, 1884," of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

12. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Oaths and Declarations Ordinance, 1893."

God save the Queen!

Given at 19, St. Swithin's Lane, in the city of London, the head office of the Company, this 11th day of September, 1893. (Seal.)

GIFFORD,

GEORGE CAWSTON, Directors.

HERBERT CANNING, Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

J, A. B., of

do solemnly and sincerely declare [here insert the matter to be declared]. And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

Declared at

this

day of

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AGREEMENT between the Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office of the South African Republic, for the Exchange of Money Orders. Signed at London, October 15, and at Pretoria, November 20, 1896.*

ART. I. Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the South African Republic there shall be a regular exchange of Money Orders.

The maximum amount for which a Money Order may be drawn in either country upon the other shall be 101. sterling. No Money Order shall include a fractional part of a penny. The amount of each Order, whether issued in the United Kingdom or in the South African Republic, shall be expressed in sterling.

II. The amounts deposited by the Remitters for payment to the Payees of Money Orders shall be in gold coin, or other legal money of the same current value.

III. Each Money Order shall, upon issue, be delivered to

Signed also in the Dutch language.

the Remitter thereof, to be forwarded by him at his own. expense to the Payee.

Each administration shall furnish to the other administration specimens of the forms of Money Order and Advice which it proposes to use in carrying on the service.

IV. The Post Office of the United Kingdom shall have power to fix the rates of commission on all Money Orders issued within its jurisdiction, and the Post Office of the South African Republic shall have the same power in regard to all Money Orders issued in the South African Republic.

Each Office shall communicate to the other its tariff of charges or rates of commission which shall be established under the present Agreement, and these rates shall, in all cases, be payable in advance by the Remitter, and shall not be repayable.

V. Each Office shall keep the commission charged on all Money Orders issued within its jurisdiction upon the other Office, but shall pay to the other Office one-half of 1 per cent. on the amount of such Orders.

VI. Orders shall be drawn only on the authorized Money Order Offices of the respective countries, and each Administration shall furnish to the other a list of such Offices, and shall from time to time notify any addition to or change in such list.

VII. Every Money Order and Advice must contain the name of the Office at which it is intended that payment shall be made, and no Order shall be issued unless the applicant furnish in full the surname, and at least the initial of one Christian name, both of the Remitter and Payee, together with the address of the Remitter, except in the case of business firms or companies, when the usual designations will be sufficient.

VIII. The service of the Money Order system between the two countries shall be performed exclusively by the agency of Offices of Exchange. On the part of the United Kingdom the Office of Exchange shall be London, and on the part of the South African Republic the Office of Exchange shall be Pretoria.

Lists of Money Orders issued shall be despatched from each Office of Exchange, accompanied by Advices, each bearing an impression of the dated stamp of the Office of Exchange.

The form of list shall be in accordance with specimen "A" in the Appendix. The lists shall be numbered consecutively throughout the year, commencing with No. 1 at the beginning of the month of January in each year, and ending with the last number included in the transactions of the year.

In order to prevent inconvenience in case the original list should be lost, each Office must forward by the following mail a duplicate of the list sent by the preceding mail.

Should it happen that on the day when the list is to be

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despatched there are no Orders to be advised for payment, a blank list marked "Nil" must nevertheless be sent.

IX. As the issues of the South African Republic on the United Kingdom will, as a rule, be in excess of the issues of the United Kingdom on the South African Republic, the latter Administration shall forward to London a remittance on account by each mail to meet the payment of the Orders advised by that mail, such remittance to be the total amount so advised, less the amount of any list of Orders issued in the United Kingdom for payment in the South African Republic, which may have been received after the last remittance was made.

A statement explanatory of the amount remitted on account should accompany such remittance, addressed to the "Receiver and Accountant-General, General Post Office, London."

Until the remittances mentioned in this Article arrive, the British Office is not to be required to pay the corresponding Money Orders.

X. Money Orders issued either in the United Kingdom or in the South African Republic in the month of December, the relative Advices of which have failed to reach the respective Offices of Exchange until the month of January, shall be entered in supplementary lists of the year in which the Orders were issued.

XI. The Advices on their arrival at the Exchange Office in the country of payment shall be compared with the entries in the list, and afterwards stamped and despatched to the offices of payment.

XII. When the lists shall show irregularities which the Receiving Office shall not be able to rectify, that Office shall apply for an explanation to the Despatching Office, and such explanation shall be afforded without delay. Pending the receipt of the explanation, payment of Orders found to be erroneous in the list shall be suspended.

XIII. The Orders drawn by each country on the other shall be subject as regards payment to the regulations which govern the payment of Inland Orders of the country on which they were drawn.

The paid Orders shall remain in the possession of the country of payment.

XIV. Duplicate Orders shall be issued and transfer of payment made 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.

XV. Repayment of Orders to remitters shall not be made until an authorization of 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 Orders shall be duly credited to the former country in the Monthly Account to be prepared by the Postal Administration of the South African Republic. (Article XVII.)

The particulars of all repaid Orders, whether of those issued in the United Kingdom, or of those issued in the South African Republic, shall be entered under their respective headings in the place provided for that purpose in the Monthly Account.

XVI. Orders which shall not have been paid within 12 months from the month of issue shall become void, and the sums received shall accrue to, and shall be at the disposal of, the country of origin.

The Post Office of the South African Republic shall therefore enter to the credit of the British Post Office in the Monthly Account all Money Orders issued in the United Kingdom which remain unpaid at the end of the period specified, and shall enter the detailed particulars of such Orders in the space provided for that purpose in the monthly account.

On the other hand, the Post Office of the United Kingdom shall at the close of each month transmit to the Post Office of the South African Republic, for entry in the monthly account, a detailed statement (specimen B annexed) of all Orders issued in the South African Republic upon the United Kingdom, which under this Article become void.

XVII. At the end of each month the Post Office of the South African Republic shall prepare an account (specimen C annexed) showing in detail the totals of the lists containing the particulars of Orders issued in either country during the mouth, the totals of Orders which have been repaid or become void, and the balance resulting from such transactions.

This Account shall be transmitted in duplicate by the Post Office of the South African Republic to the Controller, Money Order Office, General Post Office, London, and after verification, one copy of the account shall be returned by the London Office, duly accepted.

XVIII. When the Post Office of the South African Republic has to pay to the Post Office of the United Kingdom the balance of the Money Order Account such balance shall be paid by the South African Republic at the same time that it sends the account, and a similar course shall be followed by the Post Office of the United Kingdom when it is indebted to the Post Office of the South African Republic in returning to Pretoria the duplicate of the Account accepted.

Such payments shall, in the absence of an agreement between the two Administrations as to the adoption of an alternative course, be made by means of Bills of Exchange payable on demand to the order of the Administration of the creditor country.

XIX. If the Post Office of the South African Republic should desire to send Money Orders to the foreign countries or British colonies named in the List "D" in the Appendix through the medium of the British Post Office, it shall be at liberty to do so, provided that the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a.) The Post Office of the South African Republic shall advise the amounts of such "Through Money Orders" to the Central Money Order Office in London, which will re-advise them to the Central Offices of the countries in which the Orders are to be paid.

(b.) The particulars of "Through Orders" shall be entered on separate Advice Lists, which shall be despatched to London with the ordinary Advice Lists; and the total amounts of the Through Orders" shall be added to the totals of the ordinary lists of Orders drawn on the United Kingdom.

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(c.) EveryThrough Order," excepting those noted below, must have a label of the following pattern attached to the face thereof:

IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC.

This Order is of no value except as a receipt for the amount paid in, and should therefore be retained by the remitter. The payee will receive a proper form of Money Order from the Chief Money Order Office of the country in which payment is to be made.

This portion of the form to be affixed to the back of the advice.

A gummed label was affixed to the Order.

The lower portion must be affixed to the relative Advice which latter must contain the full address of the Payee, and be forwarded to London with the Advice List.

(d.) The Post Office of the South African Republic shall allow to the Post Office of the United Kingdom the same rate of accounting on Through Money Orders as on Money Orders payable in the United Kingdom: the Central Office in London crediting the Country of Payment with the same rate of accounting for the Through Orders as for Orders issued in the United Kingdom, and deducting from the amount of the Orders a sum equal to one-half of the commission chargeable to the public in Great Britain on Money Orders drawn on places abroad. This deduction is at the under-mentioned rate :

[Note. In the case of Through Orders drawn on Constantinople, Smyrna, and Panama, no labels are to be used, but