Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-22
Postal Convention between the United
States md Bremen.

| and Post Roads of the House of Representatives
| Postal Convention between the United
States and Bremen.
Additional articles agrood upon between the
Post Office Department of the United States and
the Post Office Department of the Hanseatic Re-
public of Bremen, providing for the registration
of valuable letters, to be conveyed by the United
States and Bremen lines of steamers, direct, be-
tween New York add Bremen, haven.
ARTICLE L. Letters alleged to be valuable,
posted at any Post Office in the United States,
and addressed to any part Of the German, Aus
trian Postal Union, posted in the German
Austrian Postal Union, and addressed to the Uni
ted States, and deliverable at the respective Ex-
| change Offices Of New York or Bremen, to be
thence conveyed by the United States and
| Bremen lines of steamers, shall, from and after
the first day of August, 1855, be registered at the
Office Of mailing, on application of the person
| posting the same: Propided, That the full post
| age chargeable thereon to destination, together
with restoration fee of five cents each letter,
| to be prepaid at such mailing office; and pro-
| rided also, that such registration shall not be
| compulsory, and shall not render the respective
Post office Departments of the United States or
Bremen, or their revenues liable for the loss of
such letters or packets, or the contents thereof
| ARTICLE 2. All such letters or packets, mailed
| in the interior of the United States, or of the
| German, Austrian Postal Union, respectively,
shall be received, registered and recepted for,
directed in the General Regulations issued in
each country in regard to the registration of
valuable letters, and shall be sent to the Ex-
change Offices of New York, or Bremen, re-
| spectively for the purpose of being forwarded
thence by the next direct steamer.
ARTICLE 3. The respective Exchange Offices
NauV eha INN 10 rota
letter for each registered letter, or parcel of
gistered letters originally mailed at said Ex-
change Offices, or sent to them to be forwarded,
| as prescribed by the regulations referred to in
Article III, and shall enter therein, the name of
the person addressed, the Post Office to which il
is to be mailed for delivery, and the rate Of post
age for each letter. The Postmaster Of said Ex-
change Office will then mail each such letter, or
parcel of letters, in separate package from the
unregistered letters, and seal each PACKAGE after
tying it in the usual manner The letter bills
Of such registered letters shall not be enclosed in
the packages containing them; but shall be en-
closed in a separate wrapper, envelope, sealed
and addressed to the postmaster of the cores
ponding Exchange Office of Bremen or New
York.
ARTICLE A. On the receipt of registered letters,
for delivery distribution at either of the respec
tive Exchange Offices of Bremen New York,
the postmaster OF such receiving office will COM
pare the letters with the BILL and endorse il 'cor
rect, " if il is found SO, will note the error if
there be one, in the manner prescribed with
gard TO registered letters received from an Inland
Post Office. He will then fill up the correspond
ing return bill, noting upon il whether correct
otherwise, and will see that it is returned by the
first mail thereafter to the office of mailing, New
York or Bremen, as the case may be.)
ARTICLE 5. Registered letters received at New
York from Bremen, or received at Bremen from
New York. and destined for an Inland Post Of
fee, shall he forwarded in the same manner as
other registered letters originally mailed at either
office.
ARTICLE 6. The United States and Bremen
post offices shall reciprocally account to each
other upon such registered letters as shall be
changed between them, in the same manner as
prescribed in the Postal Convention concluded on
the 4th Of August, 1853; but the registration fee
Of FIVE cents shall accrue TO the United States
Post Office Department upon all registered let
tiers sent from the United States TO Bremen; and
TO the Bremen Post Office Department upon all
registered letters sent from Bremen to the United
States
In witness Whereof we have hereto set our
names and affixed the seals Of our respectivesof-
fees this seventeenth day Of May, one thousand
eight hundred and ffty-five, at the City Of Wash
ington.
IT,. 81 JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postmaster General.
IL. 81 r.. SCHLEIDEN,
Minister resident Of the Republic Of Bremen.