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 POSTAL CONVENTION- GERMAN EMPIRE. Mancn 31 & MAY14. 1871. 859 ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Between the United States of America and the German Empire. I;[iarch43gg_pii ay,. Additional Article to the Convention for the Amelioration of the Postal Service, concluded on the 21st October, 1867, between the Post Departments of the United States of America and the North German Union, as well as to the additional Convention of the 7-23 April, 1870. As a regular steamship line between a port of Germany and a port of Preamble. the United States of America can be employed for the transportation of the German-American mails at such a compensation that the entire cost of transportation between the boundaries of the two countries shall not exceed one half silbergroschen for each single letter: Now, therefore, the under- contracting signed, duly authorized by their respective governments, that is to say, the P°”i°B~ government of the United States of America and the government of the German Empire, have agreed upon the following additional article to the postal convention of the 21st October, 1867, and to the additional Vol. xvi. pp. convention of the 7-23 April, 1870:- W9: 1003- Soms Axrrctn. The single letter rate on correspondence exchanged directly between the Single me of two administrations by means of such steamship line shall be as fol- 1****** P°”°“€“· lows, viz. : -— 1. For letters from Germany to the United States: a. When prepaid in Germany, 2Q silbergroschen. b. When paid in the United States, 12 cents. 2. For letters from the United States to Germany: a. When prepaid in the United States, 6 cents. b. When paid in Germany, 5 silbergroschen. This additional article takes edect on the date of the dispatch of the first When this artimail by such steamship line, and from that date forward has the same dura- "1° “k“ °f"°t‘ tion as the convention of the 21st October, 1867, and the additional convention of the 7-23 April, 1870. Done in duplicate, and signed in Washington the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy·0ne, and in Berlin the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. [san,.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General if the United States. [SEAL.] HEINRICH STEPHAN, General Post Director of the German Empire. I hereby approve the aforegoing additional article, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. [sean.] U. S. GRANT. By the President = HAMILTONV Frsu, Secretary of State. Wnsmuexrou, March 31, 1871.