The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-07

(0) on d part OF the United
States:
l. New York.
2. Boston.
3. Portland.
4. Detroit.
3. Chicago.
~ on the part Of the North Ger
man Union: f-EfHe
l. Aachen. (Aix la Chapelle.)
2. Bremen.
3. Hamburg.
The two post departments may at
any time discontinue either of said
offices of exchange or establish others
by mutual consent
nualE3gBw ARTICLE III.
Each Office shall make its own ar
rangements for the despatch of its
mails to the other office by regular
lines of communication; and shall at
its own cost pay the expense of such
intermediate 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
employed, SO far as consistent with
the rates of 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 cOndi
tons should be preferred. 1t is also
agreed that the cost of international
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 the most.
favorable pecuniary terms for such
couyeyance; and any amour so ad-
vanc8d by one for account of the
other shall be promptly reimbursed.
4aau ARTICLE ".
The standard weight for the single
rate of international postage, and
rule of progression shall be-
LIST. For letters, Is grammes.
I'd. For all other correspondence
mentioned In paragraph two of the
first article, that which the despatch
ing Office shall adopt for the mails
which it dispatches to the other,
adapted to the convenience and habits
of its interior administration. But
each office shall give notice to the
other of the standard weight it adopts,
and of any subsequent change thereof.
The rule of progression shall al
ways be an additional single rate tor
each additional standard weight or
fraction thereof. The weight stated
by the d~espatching Office shall always
be accepted except in cases Of mani
fest mistake.
1t Is, however. understood that so
long as the German Office employs the
10th as its standard for the single
weight of letters which it dispatches,
it shall also be accepted by the United
States Office as the equivalent of 10
grammes, ia respect to the mails
which it receives from the German
Office.
ARTICLE v.
The single rate Of postage on the
direct correspondence EXCHANGED be-
tween the two administrations shall
be as follows:
1st. On letters from the United
States via direct line Of steamers to
Hamburg and Bremen, Conditioned
that the sea rate in such case shall not
exceed Eve cents for single letter rate
and ten cents per kilogram for other
correspondence ten cents.
2 On letters from the North Ger
man Union via said direct line. Sub
ject to same condition,) four sIlber
%groschen.
3. Ga letters from the United States
via England, fifteen cents.
4. On letters from the North Ger
mau Union via England, six SLIDER
groschen.
8. OF the international letter post
age via England, the ocean single
letter rate shall bot exceed eight
cents, nor shall the English and Bel
gian single lettes transit rates exceed
cent
6. 1t is further agreed, that when
ever any other regular line of steam
eommun; cation, acceptable to the two
offices, may be employed directly be-
tween any port of the United States
aud any port of the north Of Europe
at such rates that the entire cost Of