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 CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. MAY 23 & JUNE 15, 1870. 1093 AMENDED ARTICLE, T0 replace Article Sixteen of the detailed Regulations for the Execution of May 23 the Postal Convention signed at Ute Hague, the twentgsiscth dag of Sep- Wl tember, in the year 1867. In accordance with Article XIX. of the Postal Convention between · The Netherlands and the United States, signed at The Hague on the A”t°¤ P·1°65* 26th of September, 1867, the two administrations have agreed to replace Article XVI. of the Detailed Regulations of the 26th of November, 1867, by the following article : -—- Anrrcm XVI. It is understood that the accounts between the two ofiices shall be Accounts1m- established on the respective letter bills in the proper money of the g'é‘;‘;';t2:;",g dispatching office; but the international postages on the unpaid letters bg mébigshed, or insufficiently paid letters shall be computed in the money of the receiving country. The reduction of these moneys shall be effected in the general accounts at the rate of 2,*02,, guilders for one dollar of the United thllguiyalent of States. ° ° “'? In entering the foreign charges on the letter bills in the money of the of the cent. dispatching office, the cent of the United States and two and a half cents of the Netherlands shall be taken as equivalents. It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be paid respec· Acqoqnn to tively in gold, and in the denominations of the money of the creditor b§lg¤£i;¤0§_h:h° Office- greditor 0E06- Signed at Washington, the 23d day of May, 1870. [L. s.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General. Signed at the Hague on the 15th June, 1870. J. P. HOFSTEDE, Ohief Director of Posts. L5