New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-02

dIIer proper Verfnedtiony Snaiiy IL u ub Dy tAe
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 u
made. If, pending the settlement of an
account, one of the two postal administrar
tons shall ascertain that it owes the Others
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 1.-THE forms G, ID and
E annexed to this convention.
ARTICLE XIII
Until the two General Postoffices 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
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
conversion shall be checked at the receiving
| office of exchange.
ARTICLE 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, oz~1he day of receipt at that
office of notified of such deposits. On
the other hand, tAovalue, 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 at
! the disposal of the country of origin. The
| British Office shall, therefore, enter to the
| credit of the United States, i'll 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, foy
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.
| ARTICLE XVIII.
| Repayment of orders to remitters shall
| not be made until an authorization for such
| g oh
| 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 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 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 geil-
erally. All such additional rules, however,
must be promptly communicated TO the
pGstoffice 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
seyenty-one, and in Washington on the
twenty seventh day of July, in the year o.
our Lord one thousand eight hundred anc
| seVenty-one.
w. MOUSELL.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
/ hereby approve the aforegoing conven
ton, and in testimony thereof, i have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
q. S. GRANT.
Bv the Presidents:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, July y, 1871.
Additional article between the United
States of America and the German En-
pire-AdditiOnal article to the convention
for the ameloration of the postal service
concluded on the twenty-first OF October
1867, between the Post Departments o.
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North German Union, as well as to tbs
additional convention of the 7-23 April
1870
AS regular steamship line between
port of Germany and port OF the United
, States of America can be employed for tn
TRANSPORTATION of the German-Americai
!. mails at such a compensation that the en-
tire cost of transportation between tn
boundaries of the two countries shall no
exceed onehalf silbergrosehen for each sin
gle letter: Now, therefore, the under
signed, duly authorized by their respectiv
governments, that's to say, the government
of the United States of America and tn
government of the German Empire, hav
agreed upon the following additional arti
Gle to the postal convention of the twenty
first of October, 1867, and to the additions
convention OF the 1893 April, 1870.
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on correspondent
exchanged directly between the two ad
J rninistratiOns by means of such steamship
line shall be as follows, viz:
3 |. For letters from Germany to tn
United States:
r a. When prepaid in Germany, 2lR sill
bergroschen. :,
! b. When paid in the United States,
D cents.
?. For letters from the United States 7
Germany:
G. when prepaid In the United States
l cents. m.
: b. When paid in Germany, 5 siIbei
groschen. Oh
This additional article takes effect on tn
r date of the dispatch of the first mai D