The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-06
CONVENTION
AGREED UPON.


Between the post departments of the United
States of America and of the North German
Union for the amelioration of the postal ser
vice between the two Countries.
ARTICLE l.
There shall be an exchange of correspondence
between the the United States of America and the
North German Union, by means of their re-
speciive post departments: and this correspond
cncc shall embrace
LIST. Letters ordinary and registered
I'd. Newspapers, book-packets, prints of all
kinds, Comprising maps, plans, engravings,
drawings, photographs, Autographs, and all 9th
er like productions of mechanical processes,
sheets of music, sc, y and patterns or samples
of merchandise, including grains and seeds
And such correspondence may be exchanged,
and destined for the other, or originating in or
destined for foreign countries to which these may
respectively serve as Intermediates.
ARTICLE H.
The offices for the exchange of mails shall be
(a.) on the part of the United States:
LIST. New York.
Cd. Boston.
Sd. Portland.
4th. Detroit.
5th Chicago.
o. on the part of the North Geman Union:
1st. AacheM, AK la Chapelle.
I'd. Bremen
Sd. Hamburg.
The two post departments may at any time
Others by mutual consent.
ARCIcLE III.
Each office shall make its own arrangements
for the despatch of its mai to the other office
by regular lines of communication; and shall at
its own cost pay the expense of such intermedi-
ate transportation.
The two offices. however, mutually agree that,
in making contracts for the despatch of mails
from American ports, or from European ports,
those steamers and lines should always be en-
I'D fnrn isfn ont TJIf rot nf
postage, by which the mails despatched shall
earliest arrive at their destination; and when the
speed is substantially the same, that the most
favorable pecuniary conditions should be prefer
red. 1t is also agreed that the cost OF interna-
tional ocean and territorial transit of the closed
mails between the respective frontiers shall be
first betrayed by that one of the two departments
which shall have obtained from the interme-
diaries the most favorable pecuniary terms for
such conveyance; and any amount so advanced
by one for account of the other shall be prompt
ly reimbursed
ARTICLE ~
The standard weight for the single rate of in
ternational postage, and rule of progression,
LIST. For letters, Is grammes
ID For all other correspondence mentioned
in paragraph two of the first article, that which
the despatching office shall adopt for the mails
which 1t dispatches to the other, adapted to the
convenience and habits of its interior administra
ton. But each office shall give notice to the
Quiet Oh the standard weight IL adopts, ana OF
any subsequent change thereof
The rule of progression shall always be an ad-
ditional single rate for each additional standard
weight or fraction thereof. The weight stated
by the Cespatching Office shall always be accept
ed except in case of manifest mistake.
1t is, however, understood that so long the
German office employs the 10th its standard
for the single weigh of letters which it des-
patches, it shall also be accepted by the United
States office Us the equivalent of Is grammes in
respect to the mails which it receives from the
German Office.
ARTICLE V.
The single rate of postage on the direct cor
respondence exchanged between the two admin
istrations shall be as follows:
1st On letters from the United States via di-
rect line of steamers to Hamburg and Bremen,
conditioned that the sea rate in such case shall
not exceed five cents for single letter rate and
ten cents per kilogram for other correspond
ence,) Ten cents
3D. On letters from the North German Union
via said direct line, (subject to same condition)
3d. On letters from the United States via Eng
land, fifteen cents.
18th. On letters from the North German Union
via England, six SLIDER groschen.
9th. OF the international letter postage via
England, the ocean single letter shall not exceed
eight cents, nor shall the English and Belgian
single letter transit rutes exceed one cent each.
9th. 1t is further agreed, that whenever any
other reg ular line of steam communication, &C
ccptaDle TO the two offices, may be employed al
rectly between any port of the United State ana
any port of the north of Europe at such rates
that the entire cost of transportation between
the two frontiers shall not exceed for eGch slhSl
letter rate five cents, and for each kilos ram oi
other correspondence ten cents, in that case tIS
international single rate of letter postage Dy SUCH
line shall be reduced to ten cents. -. -.
9TH. On all other correspondence nlehtlohCui
paragraph two of the first article, the rate shal
be, for the mails despatched, that which the de-
spatching Office shall adopt, adapted to the con-
venience and habits of its interior admlnlsttIitlo
But each office shall give notice to the other %
the rate it adopts, and of any subsequent change
thereof.
ARTICLE vi.
The prepayment of postage on ordinary letters
shall be optional, subject to the conditions ~, III
Article VII, mentioned; but on registered ieS
tiers, and on all other correspondence mcnt0hSSo
in paragraph two of the first article, 1t shal ~