New Orleans Republican., 1871-08-29

i after proper veriicatlOn, shall, 1t due by the
/ United States office, be paid at London;
butIif due by the British office, il shall be
paid at New York, and always In the money
| Of the country to. which the payment Is
made If, pending the settlement of an
account, one of the two postal administra-
i tions shall ascertain that it owes the other a
j balance exceeding one thousand pounds ster-
! ling, the indebted administration shall
promptly remit the approximate amount
of such balance to the credit of the other.
This account, and the letters which accom-
be in accordance with Ithe forms G, d and
E annexed to this conyen tion.osae tas lee.
Ii lsi ARHcLE xIII. te
| Until the two General. Postoffces shall
consent to an alteration, it is agreed that,
in all matters of account relative to money
4 orders which shall result from the execu-
| ton of the present convention. the pound
| sterling of Great Britain shall be consid-
cred as equivalent to, four dollars and
eighty-six cents of the gold coin of the
! United States. #k RI agtse
| o.t ARTICLE XIV. rf - ~ E.s
| Each exchange office shall certify
| its orders to the other, in amounts
| designated in the denominations of
| the money both of the dispatching
and receiving country, at the rate
| of conversion established upon the basis of
gold by article xiii of this convention. This
conversion shall be checked at the receiving
| office of exchanges. so : eae eGI H. i-5 ,
| "A "a 50 2a ARTICLE XIV. -5 largo
| All payments for money orders; whether
| to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
a. Tc+ r ARTICLE XVI. 7e 10y. s-.s f-r
The value, in gold coin of the United
| States, of deposits in paper money made IN
| that country for payment in Great Britain,
| shall be determined at the exchange Office
| of New York, according to the rate of pre-
| mium on gold, on the day of receipt at that
| office of notification of such deposits. On
the other hand the value, in United States
paper currency, OF money orders eertlfied
| in the lists sent from the exchange Office of
London to the exchange Office of New York,
shall be determined (also at New York; in
accordance with the premium on gold on
the day of the receipt of sach lists. K
| II - ARTICLE XVII. - ...-,'....-..,
, Orders which shall not have. been paid
| within twelve calendar months from the
month of issue shall become void, and the
| sums received shall accrue to and remain at
the disposal of the country of origin. The
British office shall, therefore, enter to the
credit of the United States, in the quarterly
account, all money orders entered in the
| lists received from the United States which
remain unpaid at the end of the period
specified. On the other hand the United
States office shall, 1t the close of each
| month, transmit 10 the British Office, for
entry in the quarterly account, detailed
statement of all orders included in the lists
| dispatched from the latter Office which,
| under this article, become void. -f-. b.
.-sr ARTICLE XVIII s,-.....e .--
Repayment of orders to remitte 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 were payable; and the
amounts of the repaid orders shall be duly
credited to the former country in the quar-
terly account. 1t is the province of each
postal administration to determine the
manner in which repayment to the remitter
is to be mades .vrs-.z g-- .----f- q
e--a --.- ARTICLE XIX. r o.. tt.-fl
The orders issued by each country on the
other shall be subject, as regards payment,
to the regulations which govern the pay
ment of inland orders of the country on
which they are drawn.
..-e--g ARTICLE Xxx. -s- .- rr..-. & 8
The General Postoffice in each country
| shall be authorized to adopt any additional
rules (if not repugnant to the foregoing)
for the greater security against fraud, or
| for the better working of the system gen
| erally.-Au such additional rules, however,
must be promptly communicated to the
postoffice Of the other country.
ARTICLE XXI. --..-..--.- .---.
| The present convention shall take effect
| on the first day of October next, and shall
| continue in force until twelve months after
| the date at which one of the contracting
| parties shall. have notified to the other its
| intention to terminate it. r9G.l en-
| Done in duplicate, and signed in London
on the thirtieth day of June, in the year of
| our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, and in Washington on the
| twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
| our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| seventy-one. s -.1I - lyT-
I w. tMOUSELL. 2. aa.
:34 JOHN A. j. CRESWELL, ~ s
| Postmaster General of the United States.
hereby approve the aforegOing conven-
| ton, and in testimony thereof, have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
-.en47 e esaru1 U. s. GRANT. ,
By the President: lEe-
HAMILTON Fish. Secretary of State.
Washington, July n, ISL.
Additional article between the United
| States of America and the German En-
pire-Additional article to the convention
/ LOT IuS VI tuo pOsOdA sCIfiCC3
| concluded on the twenty first of October,
| 1867, between the Post Departments of
| the United States of America and the
| North German Union, as well as to the
additional convention of the 7-23 April,
| 1870. --le a4-t
AS regular steamship line between a
| port of Germany and a port of the United
! States of America can be employed for the
| transportation of the German-American
mails at such compensation that the en-
| tire cost of transportation between the
boundaries of the two countries shall not
exceed onehalf silbergroschen for each sim
| gle letter: Now, therefore, the under
signed, duly authorized by their respective
| governments, that is to say, the government
| of the United States of America and the
| government of the German Empire, have
agreed upon the following additional arti-
Gle to the postal convention OF the twenty
| first of October, 1867, and to the additional
convention OF the 7-23 April, 1870.
a t1 SOLE ARTICLE. A---4a
The single letter rate on correspondence
/ exchanged directly between che two ad-
| fninistrations by means of such steamship
| line shall be as follows, viz:
l.. For letters from Germany to the
1 United States:
a, When prepaid in Germany, 2la sill
! bergroschen. .t..-.r...... =.
= 3. When paid in the United States, II
cents. ..-. 49,.
?. For letters from the United States to
/ Germany: