New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-16

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my hand and caused the seal Of the Unite,
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, thi
fifth day of February, in the year 0
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, and of the independence o
the United States the ninety fourth.
Q. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
AMENDED ARTICLE To replace Articl.
Sixteen of the detailed Regulations fol
the Execution of the Postal Convention
signed at the Hague, the twenty-sixtl
day of September, in the year 1867.
\ In accordance with article XIX. of the
Postal Convention between the Netherland.
and the United States, signed at the Hapuf
on the twenty-sixth of September 1867
the two administrations have agreed to re-
place article XVI. of the detailed regula
lions of the twenty-sixth of November. 1867
by the following article:
ARTICLE XVI.
1t is understood that the accounts between
the two Offices shall be established on the
respective letter bills in the proper money
of the dispatching Office; but the interna-
tional hostages on the unpaid letters or in
sufficiently paid letters shall be computed
| in the money of the receiving country.
| The reductions of these moneys shall be
| effected in the general accounts at the rate
of 2 42-I00 guilders for one dollar of the
| United States.
| In entering the foreign charges on the
| letter bills in the money of the dispatchiDg
| office, the cent of the United States and two
| and half cents of the Netherlands shall
| be taken as equivalents.
1t is also understood that the quarterly
| accounts shall be paid respectively in gold.
and in the denomination of the money of
| the creditor office.
Signed at Washington, the twenty third
| day of May, 1870.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General.
Signed at the Hague, on the fifteenth of
June, 1870 j. p. HOFSTEDE,
Chief Director of Posts.
POSTAL CONVENTION between the
United States of America and the Colonial
Government of New Zealand. Signed at
Washington, the fifth of October 1870.
and at Wellington, New Zealand. the
the President of the United States, Octo.
Der 5, 1870.
The undersigned, being thereunto duly
authorized by their respective govern
ments, have agreed upon the following arti-
cles establishing and regulating the ex-
change of correspondence between the
United States of America and the colony of
New Zealand:
ARTICLE l. There shall be an exchange of
correspondence between the United States
of America and New Zealand. by means of
the direct line of colonial mail packets ply
ing between San Francisco and said colony.
as well as by such other means of di-
rect mail steamship transportation
between the United States and
New Zealand as shall hereafter
be established, with the approval of the
respective Post Departments of the two
countries, comprising letters, newspapers
and printed matter OF every kind, origin
ating in either country, and addressed to
and deliverable in the other country, as
well as correspondence in closed mails orig
mating in New Zealand and destined for
foreign countries by way of the United
States.
ARTICLE III. The postofices of New York,
Boston and San Francisco shall be the |
United States offices OF exchange, and AUX
land and Wellington the offices of exchange
of the colony of New Zealand, for all mails |
transmitted under this arrangement
ARTICLE III No accounts shall be kept |
between the Post Departments OF the two |
countries upon the international CORES |
pondence, written or printed. exchanged |
between them, but each country shall re- |
tain to its own use the hostages which it col |
lects.
The single rate of international letter |
postage shall be twelve cents in the United |
States and six pence in New Zealand, on
each letter weighing half an ounce or less,
and an additional rate of twelve cents (six
pence) for each additional weight of half an
ounce or fraction thereof, which shall. in
all cases, be prepaid at least one single rate,
by means of postage stamps, at t6e Office
of the mailing in either country. Letters
unpaid or prepaid less than one full rate of
postage shall not be forwarded, but INSULT
GENTLY paid letters on which single rate
or more has been prepaid shall be forward
ed, charged with the deficient postage. to
be collected and retained by the Post De-
partment of the country of destination.
Letters fully prepaid, received in either
country from the other, shall be delivered
free of all charge whatsoever.
The United States postoffice shall levy
and collect to its own use, on newspapers
addressed to or received from New Zealand
a postage charge of two cents; and on all
other articles of printed matter addressed
to or received from New Zealand, postage
charge of four cents per each weight of four
ounces or traction of four ounces.
The pOstotfice of New Zealand shall levy
and collect to its own use. on newspapers
and other articles of printed matter, adj
dressed to or received from the United
States, the regular rates of domestic post
age chargeable thereon by the laws and
regulations of the colony-of New Zealand.
Newspapers and all other kinds of printed
matter are to be subject to the laws and
regulations of each country respectively, in
regard to their liability to be rated with let
,er postage, when containing written mat
er, or for any other cause specified in said
avs and regulations, as well as in regard
% their Liability to customs duty under the
'evenue laws.
ARTICLE ". The United States Office en-
RACES to grant the transit through the
United States, as well as the conveyance by
United States mail. packets, of the cor
i'll closed mails which the New
Zealand postotfice may desire to transmit
ia the United States to British Columbia,
he British North American provinces, the
Vest Indies, Mexico, Central and South
america, and at the following rates OF
United States transit postage, viz:
For the United States territorial transit
II closed mails from New Zealand for Mex
co, British Columbia, Canada or other
british North American provinces, when /
transmitted entirely by land routes, six
ents per ounce for letter mails ani sixteen
ents per pound for all kinds of printed
natter.
For the United States territorial and sea
ranslt oil closed mails from New Zealand