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


after proper verifeation, shall, il 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 admIn1strstr
tons shall ascertain that 1t owes the othera
balance exceeding one thousand pounds ster-
ling, the indebted administration shall
promptly remit the approximate amount
of such balanoet to the credit of the other
This account, and the letters which accom-
pany such intermediate remittanees shall
be in accordance with Ethe forms C, d and
annexed to this convention.
ARTICLE xIII.
Until the two General Postoffiees shall
consent to an alteration, il is agreed that,
in all matters OF. account relative to money
orders which shall result from the execu-
ton of TIE present convention. the pound
sterling Of Great Britain shall be consd-
cred as equivalent to four dollars and
eighty SIX cents of the gold coin of the
United States.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each exchange Office s1a11 certify
its orders to tho other, Mounts
designated in tho denomin&&bns of
the H2eaey 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
CONF aFsion, shall be checked at the receiving
office of exchange.
ARTICLE XIV.
Allpayments for money orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
l2ade 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 at the exchange office
3of. 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 lalso at New York ia
accordance with the premium en- 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, a detailed
statement of all orders included in the lists
dispatched fr9ql 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 renaitter
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 Postotfice in each country
shall be authorized to adopt any additional
rules (if not repugnant to the foregoingl
for the greater security against fraud, or
| for the better working of the system gen
orally. All such additional rules, however,
must be promptly communicated to the
postotfiee 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
Al L. at
| our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
! seventy-one, and in Washington on the
| twenty-seventh day of July, III the year of
! our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| seyenty-one.
W. MOUSELL.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
| Postmaster General of the United States.
hereby approve the aforegomg conyen,
ton, and in testimony thereof, have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
L. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, July o. 1871.
Additional article between the United
States of America and the German EN-
pire-Additiona article to the convention
for the amelioraton of the postal service,
concluded ON the twenty-tirst 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-!3 April,
1870.
As regular steamship line between a
port of Germany and port of the United
| States of America can be employed for the
transportation of the German-Ameriean
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
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
first of October, 1867, and to the additional
convention OF the 7-:l3 April, 1870.
+. SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on corresponding
exchanged directly between the two adj
ministrations by means of such steamship
line shall be as follows, viz:
|. For letters from Germany to the
United States:
a. When prepaid in Germany, 2lR sill
bergroschen.
b. When paid in the United States, l:
cents.
2. For letters from the United States tt
Germany:
a. When prepaid in the United States
6 cents.
b. When paid in Germany, silber
groschen
This additional article takes effect on th'
date of the dispatch of the first man d
| i from af