Savings deposits bear interest commencing from the 1st or the 16th day of the month following the date of their payment, and the interest ends on the 15th or last day of the month preceding the arrival of the notice of the expiration of the agreement with the Post Office Savings Bank at Vienna.
Sums under a florin are not to bear interest.
The 31st of December, each year, the interests accruing are to be added to the capital and from that time forward they also bear interest.
In the calculation of interest each month is to be regarded as 30 days.
The officially prepared table of interest is to be publicly posted up in the receiving offices (post offices).
Article 10.
Any amount exceeding 1,000 florins to the credit of a savings deposit is not to bear interest.
Article 11.
The Post Office Savings Bank is obliged as soon as the deposits and capitalized interest of a depositor surpasses the figure of 1,000 florins, by a registered letter, to require the depositor to lessen his capital.
If during the month following the depositor has not lessened the balance to his credit, then at the expiration of the period, bonds of the state debt bearing interest in notes will in the course of the day be officially bought to the nominal amount of 200 florins, and the depositor is to be informed of the fact.