New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-28

| pEcTOy6lltCe, lMIuuulVltS, anu privilege
granted to functionaries of the same elias
Of the most favored nation.
ARTICLE XVI.
In case of the death of citizen of tn
United States in the Austrian Hungarian
monarchy, or Of citizen Of the Austrian
Hungarian monarchy in the United States
without having any known heirs or tesla
mentary executors by him appointed, tn
competent local authorities shall inform tn
consuls or consular agents Of the State t.
which the deceased belonged of the cir
| cumstance, in order that the necessary in
formation may be Immediately forwalde,
to the parties interested.
ARTICLE XVII.
The present convention shall remain il
! force for the space of ten years from thu
date of the exchange of the notifications
| which shall be made in conformity with thu
respective constitutions of the two coun
tries, and exchanged at Washington With,
the period OF ten N0) months, or sooner i
possible.
In case neither Of the contracting parties
give notice before the expiration of the sale
term of its intention not to renew this Con
ventiOn, it shall remain in force a yea,
longer, and SO on. from year to year. unit
the expiration of year from the day on
"AASA oAc VI eAAO POI tiCS bAGll nave given
such notice.
In testimony whereof the respective plen
pOtentiaries, have signed this Convention
and have hereuntO affixed their respective
seals.
Done in duplicate at Washington, this
eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
HAMILTON FISH.
LEDERER.
And whereas the Senate, by their resolu-
ton of the twelfth Of May, 1871, did advise
and consent that the period within which it
was stipulated in tine said Convention that
the ratification thereof should he exchanged
might be extended for u period of three
months:
And whereas the said Convention has
been duly ratified on both parts. and the re-
spective notifications of the same were ex-
changed. in this city. on the twenty-sixth
day Of June, 1871, by Hamilton Fish, Secre-
tary OF State Of the United States, and
Baron Lederer, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister PlenipOtentiary of His Majesty the
Emperor of Austria, etc, accredited to this
government OH the part of their respective
governments.
Now, therefore, be it known that l. Ulysses
5. Grant, President of the United States
of America, have caused the said conven-
ton to be made public, to the end that the
same, and every clause and article thereof.
may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens
thereof
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washin gton this TWEEN
ty-nlnth day Of June, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy one. and of the Independence of the
United States the ninety fifth.
L. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary OF State.
Additional article between the United
States of America and the German Em.
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 we'll as to the
additional convention of the 7-L3 April
1870.
AS regular steamship line between
port OF Germany and a port of the United
states of America can be employed for the
OF the German American
nails at such compensation that the en-
Ire cost OF transportation between the
boundaries of the two countries shall not
'Xceed One-half silbergroschen for each sin
lie letter: Now. therefore, the under
igned, duly authorized by their respective
governments, that is to say, the government
Il 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 I
ist of October. 1867, and to the additional |
on yeutinp of ha Anvil 1874
SOLE ARTICLE.
The single letter rate on correspondence
xchanged directly between the two ad-
by means of such steamship
ne shall be as follows, viz:
|. For letters from Germany to the
nited States:
a. When prepaid in Germany, sls sill
b. When paid iii the United States, II
=. Ror letters from the United States to
ermanv:
q. When prepaid in the United States,
cents.
b; When paid in Germany, 5 SLIDER
rOschen.
This additional article takes effect on the
ate OF the dispatch Of the first mail by
lch steamship line, and from that date
rward has the same duration as the con
.ntion.of October 81, 1867. and the addi-
onal convention of April 7-23, 1870
Done in duplicate, and signed in Wash
gtpn the thirty first day of March, one
ousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
I'd in Berlin the fourteenth day of Nav,
he thousand eight hundred and seventy
c. JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
General of the United States.
HEINRICH STEPHAN,
eneral Post Director of the German En-
pire.
l hereby approve the aforcgOing add-
NAL article, and in testimony thereof l
We caused the seal Of the United States
he affixed. L. S. GRANT. $
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary OF State
WASHINGTON. March 81, 1871.
by the President of {
the United States of America.
invention between the United States of
america and the Republic of Nicaragua.
Signed June %, 1870; rati-
led April II 1871; ratiicatio1s exchanged
Inne "A, ls7l; proclaimed September 10, O
81. a
Whereas a convention for the extradition a
criminals between the United States of t
,erica and the Republic of Nicaragua was a
lcluded and signed at Managua, by their u
pective PlenipOtentiaries, on the twenty
h day of June, 1870; which convention, be-
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