Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-03-19

Laws OF the United states Passed at
the First session of the FOrty-Third
Congress.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES OF AGREE
MENT
Between the Post Department Of the
Post ne51rtnIeHt Of the German EIn-
Pire, EstabIlshing an ~ e11-Sl 0A
tries.
ARTICLE I.-For the purpose of providing
additional facilities Of mail communication
between the United States of America
and the German Empire, it is hereby
mutually agreed that United States postal
cards mailed at any post Office
in the United States and addressed to Ger
many, and German pestal-cards mailed at any
post-ofiee in Germany and addressed to the
United States, the postage on which shall have
been fully prepaid to its destination, at the
rates hereinafter stated, can hencetorth be ex-
changed between inhabitants OF the United
States and Of Germany. But unpaid or IN
sufficiently paid postal cards will not be Tor
warded in the mails between the two eouh-
Z tries.
ARr1cLE 2.-PostaI cards shall be forwarded
exelusiyely bV means of such direct steamers
asshall from time to time be employed IN the
Recommendation of the direct German American
maiIs Each of the two post departments shall
nav the entire expenses OF the sea transport Tor
the postal cards which are sent from its terri
FOR the purposes Of this article, the charge
for the sea transportation across the Atlantic
of the postal cards sent by direct steamers
from the United States to Germany, is fixed at
one cent an ounce, (avOirdupois,) net weight.
e ARTICLE 3.-Fhe postage on postal cards
sent in each direction is fixed as follows:
1. At 9 cents when sent from the United
States of America.
2. At 1 silbergrosehen when sent from Ger
many.
Prepayment thereof to be made by afixing
to each United States postal card an ordinary
one-cent postage stamp in addition to the
stamp printed impressed on the card.
Each department shall retain to its exclu-
i've use the postage which it collects, at the
prescribed rates, on the postal cards sent from
ARTICLE 4.-The regulations and instruct
ions governing the and treatment of pos
tai cards in the domestic mails of the United
States and Of Germany, respectively, shall ap-
ply. equally to the postal cards mailed in
either country and addressed to the other coun-
try. ~,
ing articles shall, in like manner, apply to the
postal cards which are exchanged, through
the medium ofthe German mails, between the
United States of America on one side, and the
Empire of Austria Hungary and the Grand
DuchY of Luxemburg the other.
ARTICLE 6.-This agreement shall go into
effect on the lst of December, 1873, and shall
have equal duration with the postal conVen-
ton of 2lst October, 1867, and with the addi-
tiOnal conventions concluded thereunto.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washing
ton the 18th of November, 1873, and in Berlin
the 3lst October, 1873.
JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, II. 81
Postmaster-General of the United States.
STEPHAN, L. s.
Director General of Posts of Germany.
hereby approve the aforegoing convention,
and IN testimony thereof I have caused the
seal Of the United States to be affixed.
U. S. GRANT.
By the President
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State. a.
WARRINGTON, November Is, 1873.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES OF AGREE
FHENT
of the United states OF America and
Of New FOundland. EstabIishlng an
Ihe two Countries.
ARTICLE For the purpose of pro.
Yiding additional facilities of mail
States and Newfoundland it is hereby
mutually agreed that United States
postal cards mailed at any post-offiee i'm the
United States and addressed to Newfoundland,
anu NSWIOunQ1dnQ postal CardS malleQ at any
post-ohce In N ewfoundland and addressed to
the United States, VIXEN prepaid an additional
postage of one cent, by affiXing thereto Or
dinary Onecent pOstage-stamp of the country
of origin in 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 I.--The regulations and inatruc-
tions governing the 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 other
country.
ARTICLE III.--Each country will retain to
its own use the postage it collects at the pre-
seribed rate on postal cards forwarded to the
other country.
ARTICLE IV.--The present articles shall be
considered additional to those agreed upon be
tween the two offices on the 1920 of Noyem
Der, A. D. 1872, and shall come into operation
on the first of October, 1873.
In witness whereof the Postmaster Genera
of the United States of America and the Post
master General Of Newfoundland have herett
set their hands and affixed their seals, at tn
date set opposite t. each respectively.
SEAL JNO A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
August 81, 1873
JOHN DELANEY,
g 8 Postmaster-Genersl of Newfoundland.
September Is, 1873.
/ hereby approve the aforegoing convention
and in testimony thereof have caused the sea
OF the United States to be affixed.
By the President:
Acting Secretary of State. US.
WASHINGTON, September 26, 1873.