548 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 18, 1867. rated in general forthwith be paid, in the money of the country to which the payment is to ""°°“’“"‘ be made, by that onlce which is found to be indebted to the other. Fagiiynlent of In converting United States currency into sterling, or sterling into g:m:‘g°:gM United States currency, four shillings and two pence shall be considered ` as the equivalent of a dollar. Omcialcom- Anr1cL1·:_XVII. Official communications addressed by the United
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0m,,, nom, be lice to the United States Post·Ofiice, shall not give rise to any account accounted. between the two Post-Oiiices. Regutattonsto Aivrrcnm XVIII. The two offices shall, by mutual consent, make ggxzazgle detailed regulations in accordance with the foregoing articles, such regu- ' lations to he terminable on a reasonable notice by either office. Eatsnng con- ARTICLE XIX. All the conventions which now regulate the ex-
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effect from the date of the day when the present convention shall be put into execution. t_‘gll;¤¤ ¤¤i<=l¤¤ Am‘1cr.r1 XX. Articles one, Eve, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, gon tsk?;';;;; twelve, fittcen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen, shall come into operation Sn the lsigggtober next, and the remaining articles on the lst day of anuary, . Convention ARTICLE XXI. This convention shall be terminable at any time on
- °L’"l¤¤b]° ¤P°¤ a notice by either office of one year; and Article V. (except so far as
W °°°°°°°' relates to newspapers) shall be terminable on a notice of three months. Execution. Done in duplicate and signed in London, the 18th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. MONTROSE, L. s. JOHNEA. I§ASSON, Special Oom., qc., qc. [ J L. s. P`($$'1‘-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, } ashington, July 8, 1867. 9<>¤*¢¤¢i¤¤ Having examined and considered the foregoing articles of a new Iwgfg Q;;,?,?` Postal Convention between the United States of America and the United l2‘ostmaster-Gen- Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which were agreed upon and °"°l$ signed in duplicate at London on the eighteenth day of June, one thou~ sand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by the Hon. John A. Kass0n, Special Commissioner, &c., &c. on behalf of this Department, and by His Grace the Duke of Montrose, Postmaster—General of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, on behalf of his Department, the same are by me hereby ratified and approved, by and with the advice and consent of the President of the United States. In witness whereof, I have caused the seal of the Post-Office Depart- [L, S-] ment to be hereto atiixed, with my signature, the day and year first above written. Amex. W'. RANDALL, Postmaster- General, II S. spxpmrstt by I hereby approve the foregoing Convention, and in testimony thereof E: Ugigtlt of I licnve cgused the seal of the United States to be affixed. sum L. s. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: Winnuu H. Sirwimn, Secretary of State. Wrtsnmorou, July 8, 1867.
