New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-13

one thousand eight hundred and seventy
two. HAMILTON FISH.
IGNO. MARISCAL.
And whereas the said convention, al
amended, has been duly ratified ON b0tl
parts, and the respective Publications of the
same were exchanged at Washington OF
the seventeenth instant:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ulysses
8. Grant, President of the United States Of
America, have caused the said convention
to be made public, to the end that the same
and eyerv clause and article thereof, may
be observed and fulfilled by the United
States and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof have hereunto sol
nv hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twenty-fourth day Of July, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three, and of the independence Of
the United States the ninety eighth.
U. s. GRANT.
BY the President:
j. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Secretary of State.
Additional articles of agreement between
the POstOfIice Departments of the United
States of America and of Newfoundland,
establishing an exchange of postal cards
between the two countries.
ARTICLE 1.
For the purpose of providing additional
facilities OF mail communication between
the United States and Newfoundland, it is
hereby mutually agreed that United States
postal cards mailed at any pOstOffice in the
United States and addressed to Newfound-
land, and Newfoundland postal cards
mailed at any postotfice in Newfoundland
and addressed to the United States, when
prepaid an additional postage Of one cent,
BY affixing thereto an ordinary one cent
postage stamp Of the country of origin in
addition to the stamp printed or impressed
on the card, shall be reciprocaiiy forwarded
and delivered in the country of destination,
free of charge. Postal cards not 90 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 other
country.
Each country will retain to ito 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 to those agreed upon between
the two offices on the thirteen-twenty of
November, A. y. 1872, and shall come into
operation on the first of October, 1873.
In witness whereof the Postmaster Cen
eral Of the United States Of America and
the Postmaster General of Newfoundland
have hereto set their handle and afi xed
Il. ~ dot nnf 20 nh
respectively.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELLa,
Postmaster General of the United States.
August 81, 1873.
Postmaster General Of Newfoundland.
September Is, 1873.
hereby approve the foregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal OF the United States to be aft xed.
y. S. GRANT.
BY the Presidenf:
w. HUNTER.
Acting Secretary of State.
Washington, September 26, 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 tho purpose Of providing additional
facilities of mail communication between
the United States of America and the Ger
man empire, it is hereby mutually agreed
any postoffice in the United States and ad-
dressed to Germany, and German postal
cards mailed at any p0stofice in Germany
and addressed to the United States, the
postage on which shall have been fully pre-
paid 70 destination, at the rates hereinafter
stated, can henceforth be exchanged be-
tween the inhabitants of the United States
and of Germany. But UNPAID or nsuffi-
GENTLY paid postal cards will not be for
warded in the mails between the two coun'
tries.
ARTICLE II.
Postal cards shall be- forwarded exclusive
ly by means of such direct steamers rs
shall from time to time be employed in 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 for the postal cards which are
sent from its territory.
For the purposes OF this article, the charge
for 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. lavoirdup0is).
net weight.
ARTICLE III.
The postage on postal cards sent in each
direction is fixed as follows:
l. At two cents when sent from the
United States of America.
9. At one silbergroschen when sent from
Germany.
Prepayment thereof to be made by affix-
ing 20 each United States postal card an or
binary ono cent postage stamp in addition
to the stamp printed or impressed ON the
card.
Each department shall retain to its exclu-
sive 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 tie 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 and 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 on the
other.
ARTICLE VI.
This agreement shall 60 into effet on the
first of December, 1873, and shall 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 IN
Berlin the thirty first October, 1873.
JOHN A. j. CRESSWELL.
Postmaster General of the United States.
STEPHAN,
Director General of Posts of Germany.
thereby approve the aforegoing conven.
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.