New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-23

a1tor proper 0ff0cottOn, shall, II due by tn
United 6tates ONCE, be paid ct Lond O
but If due by the British Office, it shall b<
paid at New York, and always in the money
made. If, pending the settlement Of an
account, one Of the two postal administers
lions shall ASCERTAIN that Il owes the othera
balance exceeding one thousand pounds ster-
ling, the indebted adninistrationT shall
promptly remit the Approximate amount
q such balance to the credit of the other.
This account, and the letters which accom-
pany such intermediate remittances, shall
0e IN accordance with 1.-THE forms C, D and
Z annexed to this convention.
ARTICLE KIN.
Until the two General Postoffices shall
consent to an alteration, it il 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 comsiil-
cred as equivalent to four dollars and
eighty-six cents of the gold coin of tlrB
ARTICLE XIV.
Each exchange office shall certify
it's orders to the other, in amounts
designated in the denominations Of
and receiving country, at the rats
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.
ARTICLE ".
; All payments for money orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall b
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
ARTICLE XVI.
The value, in gold com of the United
States, OF deposits in paper money made IN
that country for payment in Great Britain,
shall be determined 1T the exchange office
Of New York. according to the rate of pre-
MUM on gold, on the day of receipt at that
ONCE 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 (also 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 1T
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, q 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 tho
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 made.
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 P0stoffice 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 EN-
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
<lo< l.: sokl >E =
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy one, and in Washington on the
twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
Dur Lord one thousand eight hundred and
w. MOUSELL.
JOHN A. j. .CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
I hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
lion. and in testimony thereof, I have caused
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-frst of October,
1867, between the Post Departments of
the United States of America and tho
North German Union, as well as to tho
additional convention Of the 7-23 April,
1870.
As regular steamship line between q
port of Germany and port of the United
States of America can be employed for the
of the German-American
ire cost of transportation between tho
boundaries Of the two countries shall not
exceed one-half silbergroscheu for each sim
lie letter: Now, therefore, the under.
igned, duly authorised by their respective
governments, that is to say, the government
# the United States Of America and the
government Of the German Empire, have
greed upon the following additional arti-
lie to the postal convention of the twenty
irst of October, 1867, and to the additional
OF the 7-2S April, 1870.
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on correspondence
exchanged 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:
a. When prepaid in Germany, ~ sill
b. When paid in the United States, u
ents.
2. For letters from the United States to
a. When prepaid in the United States,
cents.
b. When paid in Germany, 5 silber-
groschen.
This additional article takes effect on the
late of the dispatch Of tho first mail by
uch steamship line, and from that date
Onward has the same duration as the con.
'ention Of October 81, 1867, and the addi-
ional convention of April 7-23, 1870. s1