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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. SEM. 26, 1867. 1069 It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be paid respectively in gold, and in the denominations of the money of the creditor office. Anricnn XVII. The quarterly accounts shall he prepared by the Q“t;"““'lY'°’ respective dcspatching offices of exchange. They shall be based upon the mm ` acknowledgments of receipt, and shall respectively be arranged according to the models hereto annexed, and marked E and F. 1bg;°“» PP· 1*1* A recapitulation of these accounts, showing the definitive results, alike ° for the debit and the credit, shall be prepared by the United States office, and shall then be transmitted, with the accounts on which it is based, for the examination of the N ctherland office. Done in duplicate and signed at Paris the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. J. P. HOFSTEDE, Chief Director of the General Post- Office of the Netherlands. JOHN A. KASSON, Special Commissioner, etc., etc. Pos?-OFFICE ZDEPARTMENT, Washington, January 21, 1868. The foregoing articles of detailed regulations for carrying into execution the postal convention of 26th September, 1867, between the United States and the Netherlands, are hereby ratified and approved. I Witness my band and the seal of the Post·Office Department, thts twenty-first day of January, A. D. 1868. [L. s.] ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmasler- General.