New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-30

United States Office, be paid at London
but if due by the British office, it shall bt
paid at New York, and always il the money
Of the country to which the payment
made. If, pending the settlement of an
account, one of the two postal administra,
tions shall ascertain that It owes the other
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-
pany such intermediate remittances. shall
be in accordance with ithe forms c, d and
E annexed to this convention.
! ARTICLE XIII.
Until the two General Postofices shall
consent to an alteration, it is agreed that
in all matters of account relative to money
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.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each exchange office shall certify
it's orders to tGe 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 exchange.
sARTICLE XIV.
All payments for money orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
ARTICLE XVI.
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-
MUM 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 certified
in the lists sent from the exchange Office of
London to the exchange Office of New York,
shall be determined talso at New York; in
accordance with the premium on gold on
the day of the receipt of such lists.
ARTICLE XVII.
Orders which shall rot 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, at the close of each
month, transmit to the British Office, for
entry in the quarterly account, detailed
statement of all orders included in the lists
from the latter Office which,
under this article, become void.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Repayment of orders to remitters shall
not be made until an authorization for such
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-
postal administration to determine the
in which repayment TO the remitter
is to be made.
ARTICLE xix.
The orders issued by each country on the
to the regulations which govern the pay
ment of inland orders of the country on
which they are drawn.
ARTICLE Xxx.
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.
must be promptly communicated to the
postofice 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
TO terminate it.
Done in duplicate, and signed in London
on the thirtieth day of June, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
and in Washington on the
day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy one.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
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.
U. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH. Secretary Of State.
Washington. July q, 1871.
Additional article between the United
States of America and the German En-
pire-Additional article to the convention
for the ameEoration of the postal service,
concluded ON the twenty-first of,Oetober,
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.
AS regular steamship line between a
port of Germany and port of the United
States of America can be employed for the
of the German-American
mails at such a compensation that the en-
tire cost of transportation between the
boundaries of the two countries shall not
exceed one-half silbergroschen for each sin
lie letter: Now, therefore, the under
signed, duly authorized by their respective
governments, that's to say, the government
If the United States of America and the
government of the German Empire, have
agreed upon the following additional arti-
lie to the postal convention of the twenty
irst of October, 1867, and to the additional
convention OF the 7-23 April, 1870.
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate ON correspondence
directly between the two ad-
by means of such steamship
inc shall be as follows, viz:
l. For letters from Germany to the
United States:
q. When prepaid in Germany, 21a sill
oergroschen.
b. When paid in the United States, II
cents.
9. For letters from the United States to
Germany:
a. When prepaid in the United States,
cents.
b. When paid in Germany, 5 silber-
yroschen.
This additional article takes effect on the
date of the dispatch of the first mail by