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POSTAL CONVENTION WITH ITALY. MAY 1 & 25, 1869. 102'( AMENDED ARTICLE. To replace Article X VI of the Detailed Regulations jbr the Execution of M°Y1& 25•l869· the Postal Convention signed at Florence the Sth dag of November, 1867. m$"*°· PP·1°H· In accordance with Article XVIII. of the postal convention between Italy and the United States, signed at Florence on the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the two administrations have agreed to replace Article XVI. of the detailed regulations of nineteenth day of March and second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, by the following article : — ARTICLE XVI. It is understood that the accounts between the two offices shall be estab- Foam W lished, in the respective letter-bills, in the proper money of the despatch- counts between ing office; but the international postages on the unpaid letters, or in- sufficiently prepaid letters, shall be computed in the money of the receiv- Smeg and Italy ing office. The reduction of these moneys shall be effected in the general to M in WW? accounts at the rate of five lire ten centesimi of Italy for one dollar of the m°°°y' United States. In entering the foreign charges on the letter-bill, in the money of the despatching office, the cent of the United States and five centesimi of Italy shall be taken as equivalent. It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be paid, respectively, in gold, and in the denomination of the money of the creditor office. Signed at Washington, the iirst day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and at Florence the twenty-fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. ' JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General. G. BARBAVARA, Director- General of Posts.