New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-08

mitted by the Office at London, exhibiting
the balance found due on the exchanges of
orders during the quarter; which balance,
after proper verification, shall, If due by the
United States office, be paid at London;
but if due by the British Office, it 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-
tons 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 Ethe forms c, ID and
Z 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
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 exchange.
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 com of the United
States, of deposits in paper money made Ia
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 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
cfeulb OF Ine United States III bne 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 hard, the United
States Office shall, at the close of each
month, transmit to the British Office, for
entry in the quarterly account, a detailed
statement of all orders included in the lists
dispatched 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
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 i'll the quar-
terly account. 1t is the province of each
postal administration to determine the
manner in which repayment to the reIpitter'
is to be made.
ARTICLE XIX.
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.
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 gem
orally. All such additional rules, however,
must be promptly communicated to the
postotfice 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.
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
seventyOne.
w. MOUSELL.
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 amelioration of the postal service,
| 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.
As a regular steamship line between q
| port of Germany and port of the United
| States of America can be employed for the
| TRANSFORMATION 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
| Gle to the postal convention of the twenty
first of October, 1867, and to the additional
convention OF the 7-23 April, 1870.
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on correspondence
exchanged directly between the two adj
ministrations by means of such steamship
| line shall be as follows, viz:
l. For letters from Germany to the
United States:
a. When prepaid in Germany, 2l3 sill
bergroschen.
b. When paid in the United States, II
/ cents.
2. For letters from the United States to
| Germany:
a, When prepaid in the United States,
cents.
ftar,nopr ciIbar.