New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-05

after proper. yer1ncation, shall IL uue Dy the
United States Office, be paid at London;
but if due by the British office, it shall be
paid at New York, and always N the money
of the country to which the payment is
made. IT, pending the settlement OF an
account, one of the two postal admlnlstra-
tons shall ascertain that il owes the othera
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 G, d 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 frem the execu-
ton of the present convention, the pound
sterling of Great Britain shall be coDsid-
cred as equivalent to four dollars and
eighty-six cents of the gold coin of the
United States.
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
odaversion 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, 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 (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, 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
Statements 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 in the quar-
terly account 1t is the province of each
postal administration to determine the
manner in which repayment to the reiritter
ia 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 Postofice- in each country
shall be authorized to adopt any add1(Onal
rules (if not repugnant to the feregoing)
for the greater security against fraud, or
for the better working of the system gem
orally. ALI 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 10 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
seventy one.
w. MOUSELL.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
hereby approve the afOregoing DOnyen-
ton and in testimony thereof, Ihaye 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-flrst 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 regular steamship line between
port of Germany and port of the United
States of America can be employed for the
transportation of the German-A American
mails at such compensation that the en-
tire cost Of transportation between the
boundaries of the two countries shall not
exceed one-half silbergroschen for each sin.
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.
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on correspondence
| exchanged directly between the two adj
/ mnistrations 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, 2lA sill
bergrosehen. N
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.
B. When paid in Germany, 5 silber-
| groschen.
This additional article takes effect on the
date of the dispatch of the first mail oy
such steamship line, and from that date
forward has the same duration as the con
van4;on of Octeber q, 1867, and the addi-