Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 16.djvu/1071

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POSTAL CONVENTION WITH SWITZERLAND. Oor. 11, 1867. 1037 It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be paid, respectively, in gold, in the denomination of the money of the creditor office. Amrcmz XVIII. The accounts mentioned in Article XV. of the C¤¤`*¤i¤ M- convention shall be prepared by the respective despatching offices of ex- gglwu t° b° P"' ohange. They shall be based upon the acknowledgments of receipt, and P t 0 9 shall, respectively, be prepared according to the models hereto annexed 10;,1(i8’pp` 1 4 ’ and marked F and G. A recapitulation (or summary) of these accounts showing the definitive result, alike for the debit and the credit, shall be prepared by the United States office according to the form hereto annexed and marked H, and Pvst,p·1053. shall then be transmitted, with the accounts on which it is based, for the examination of the Swiss office. The latter office shall advise the United States office of the result of the verification, and any differences ascertained after mutual discussion shall be embraced in the next quarterly account. Amroms XIX. The convention and these regulations shall take effect t_ Thi=L¢°¤'°¤· on the 1st day of April, 1868. tiigzgggt? Signed at Paris this 28th day of November, 1867. JOHN A. KASSON, Special Com., etc., ctc. L. M. FUCHS, Uontroller- General of Swiss Posts. Posr—OrFrcE DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 25, 1868. The foregoing articles of detailed regulations for carrying into execution the postal convention of 11th October, 1867, between the United States and Switzerland, are hereby ratified and approved. Witness my hand and the seal of the Post-Oilice Department this 25th day of January, A. D. 1868. [L. s.] ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster- General.