New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-08

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one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
two. HAMILTON FISH.
| IGNO. MARISCAL.
! And whereas the said convention, az
amended, has been duly ratified on both
/ parts, and the respective ratiticatiohs OF the
! same were exchanged at Washington on
! the seventeenth instant:
Now. therefore, be it known that /, Ulysses
| S. Grant. President Of the United States OF
I America. have caused the said convention
| 20 be made public, to the end that the same,
! and every clause and article thereof. may
! be observed and fulfilled by the United
| States and the citizens thereof.
I II witness whereof I have hereunto Sc:
| my hand, and caused the seal of the United
| States to be affixed.
Done a. the city Of Washington thi.
| twenty fourth day Of July, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three, and OF the independence Of
tie United States the niaesy.eighth;
L. 5. GRANT.
By the President:
J. G. BANCROFT DAVIS.
Acting Secretary Of State.
Additional articles of agreement between
the Yostotice Departments Of the United
States O: America and Of Newfoundland,
establishing an exchange OF postal cards
between the two countries.
ARTICLE I.
Fo. the purpose of providing addition al
facilities OF mail communication between
the United States and Newfoundland. it is
hereby mutually agreed that United States
postal caYds mailed at any postofiice IN tie
United States and addressed to Newfound-
land, and Newfoundland postal cards
mailed at any postotiice in Newfoundland
and addressed p the United States. when
prepaid an add lonal postage OF one cent,
by atiixing thereto an ordinary one cent
postage stamp OF the country OF origin m
addition to the stamp printed or impressed
on the card, shall be reciprocally forwarded
and delivered in the country OF destination.
free of charge. Postal cards not SO prepaid
Will not be forwarded in the mails between
the two countries.
ARTICLE II.
The regulations and instructions govern.
ing the use and treatment of postal cards
in the domestic mails Of the United States
and Of Newfoundland, respectively. shall
apply equally TO the postal cards mailed in
either country and addressed to the otner
country.
Each country will retain to its own use
the postage it collects at the prescribed rate
on postal cards forwarded to the other
country.
The present article shall be considered
additional 10 those agreed upon between
the two offices on the thirteen-twenty of
November, 4. D. 1872, and shall come into
operation on the first of October, 1873.
In witness whereof the Postmaster Gen.
eral of the United States Of America and
the Postmaster General of Newfoundland
have hereto set their hands and affixed
their seals, at the date set opposite to each
respectively.
Postmaster General OF the United States.
JOHN DELANEY.
Postmaster General OF Newfoundland.
september Is, 1873.
l hereby approve the foregoing conven.
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
tie seal OF the United States to be affixed.
l.. S. GRANT.
By the President:
w. HUNTER.
Acting Secretary Of State.
Washington. September 20, 1873.
Additional articles Of agreement between
the Post Department of the United States
Of America and the Post Department of
the German empire, establishing an ex-
change OF postal cards between the two
countries.
ARTICLE I.
For the purpose of providing additional
facilities Of mail communication between
the United States of America and the Ger
man empire. it is hereby mutually agreed
that United States postal cards mailed at
any postofice in the United States and ad
dressed to Germany, and German postal
cards mailed at any postoffice in Germany
and addressed to the United States, the
postage on which shall have been fully pre-
paid 10 destination. at he rates hereinafter
stated, can henceiUrtM be exchanged be-
tween the inhabitants of the United States
and of Germany. But UNPAID or nsuiti-
GENTLY paid postal cards will not be tor
warded il the mails between the two coun.
tries.
ARTICLE II.
Postal cards shall be forwarded exclusive
IL by means of such direct steamers as
shall from time to time be employed III the
transportation of the direct German-Amer-
lean mails. Each Of the two post depart
ments shall pay the entire expenses OF the
sea transport tor the postal CARDS when are
sent from its territory.
For the purposes of this article, the charge
tor the sea transportation across the Allan
tic OF the postal cards sent by direct steam
ers from the United States to Germany. is
fixed at one cent an ounce, tavoirdupo1s).
net weight.
ARTICLE III.
The postage on postal cards sen: in each
direction is fixed as follows:
|. At two cents when sent from the
United States OF America.
,. At one silbergroschen when sent from
Germany.
Prepayment thereof to be made by affix-
ing to each United States postal card an or.
binary one cent postage stamp in addition
to the stamp printed or impressed en- the
card.
Each department shall retain 70 its exclu.
s;ve use the postage which it collects at the
prescribed rates, ON the postal cards sent
from its territory.
ARTICLE ".
The regulations and instructions govern.
ing the use and treatment OF postal cards IN
the domestic mails of the United States and
of Germany, respectively, shall apply
equally to the postal cards mailed in either
country anG addressed to the other country.
ARTICLEv.
The regulations in the foregoing articles
shall, in like manner, apply to the postal
cards which are exchanged, through the
medium of the German mails, between the
United States of America on the one side,
and the Empire OF Austria Hungary and
the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg OF the
other.
ARTICLE VI.
Tiais esreement shall go into effet on the
first Il December 1873 and ehall have equal
duration with the postal convention of
twenty first October, 1867, and with the ad-
ditlonal conventions concluded thereto.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washing
ton the eighteenth November. 1873, and Ia
Berlin the thirty first October, 1873.
JOHN A. j. CRESSWELL.
Postmaster General Of the United States.
STEPHAN,