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 690 CONVENTION-GERMAN EMPIRE. OCTOBER 9, 1879. ter having given notice of its inten- nachdem derselbe dem andern 12 tion to that eiicct to the other. Monate zuvor von seiner hierauf beziiglichen Absioht Kenntniss gegeben hat. Executedin duplicate and signed Geschehen in doppelter Ausfertiat Berlin the 9th October, 1879. gung und unterzeichnet zu Berlin Signatures. C. F. MACDONALD W. GUNTHER. (1611 9. October, 1879. C. F. MACDONAID. W. GUNTIIER. BERLIN, W., 6. December, 1879. BEB.L1:N, W., 6 December, 1879. Imperial German General Post De- Kaiserlieh Deutsches General-Post partment : amt : The General Post Department Dem Post Office Department has the honor to communicate beehrt sich das General-Postamt hereby,veryrespectfu]ly, to thePost ganz ergebenst mitzntheilen, dass Office Department, that the Oonven- das zwischcn Vcrtretern der tion, concluded at Berlin on the 9th deutschen Reichspostverwaltung of October, 1879, between the re- undderjenseitigenPostverwaltung spcctive Representatives of the unterm 9. October, 1879, zu Berlin German Imperial Post Department abgeschlossene Uebereinkornmen, and the Post Office Department of betreiiend den Austausch von Postthe United States of America, con- anweisungen, - diesseits an massoerning the exchange of Postal gebender Stelle genehmigt Worden Money Orders, has been duly ap- ist. proved by the proper authorities. WIEBE. WIEBE. POST Orrron DEPARTMENT, POST Onrron DEPARTMENT, Washington. Washington. 38323. 38323. POST Onrron DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES or AMERICA, Washington, D. O. Having examined and considered the foregoing articles of a convention for the establishment of an exchange of post office money orders between the United States of America and the German Empire, which articles were agreed upon and executed in duplicate at Berlin on the 9th of Oetober, A. D. 1879, by Mr. G. F. Macdonald, Superintendent of the Postal Money-Order System of the United States, and Special Commissioner, &c., &c., on behalf of this Department, and by Mr. W. Gunther, Privy Oouncellor of the Post Department of the German Empire, on behalf of the latter 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 testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the Post Office Department vo be hereto aiiixed, with my signature this nineteenth day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine. [sEA1. on THE POST—0F]E¤‘ICE DEPART- D. M. KEY, MENT on THE UNITED sTATEs.] Postmaster- General. I hereby approve the foregoing convention, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. [SEAL on THE UNITED STATES.] B. B. HAYES. By the President: WM. M. EVARTS, Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dewmber 19th, 1879.
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