The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-28
lOFFICIAI
T Avs OF THE UNITED STATES
russell at the Second Session Of the F6rtieth
Congress-
PUBLIC ACTS.
CONVENTION
PUBLIC ACTS.
CONVENTION
FOR

CONVENTION
FOR
Tile Ameti0r0ti0n of tile Postal Eote,.o,,nao
6etreen tile United States of A,uer;co oo5
the ISaoiss Confederation.
ARTICLE XII.
The two post departments shall establish h.,
agreement, and in conformity with the arran~:y,
mcnts in force at the time, the conditions mon
which the two offices may respectively EXCHANGE
in open mails. the CORES pOndcnce originatin,,,
in, or destined to- the other foreign countries 70
which they may reciprocally serve as inferno.
diaries 1t is always understood, however tLot
such correspondence shall only be charged With
the rate applicable to direct international CORE
pondence, augmented by the postage due ia foS
eign countries, and by any other tax for exterior
service.
ARTICLE XIII
Each Office accprls to the other the privileco
of transit of closed mails exchanged in either
direction, between the latter and any country tn
which the other may serve as an intermediary Inv
its usual means OF mail transportation wbcther
ON or land. Such transit across its own ter
ritory shall be reciprocally 1rec of expense
For such transit by sea the United States office
shall receive as follows:
l. For transit across the waters of the Atlantic
ocean:
a. For letters, cents per single letter rate
b. For other correspondence, II cents ner
k1lOSfaInHc, net.
2. For transit across the waters of the Pacific
ocean.
a. For letters, 10 cents per single letter rate
o. For other correspondence 20 cents per
For such transit by sea the Swiss office shall
receive as follows:
For transit across the waters of the Atlantic
ocean:
a. For letters, cents per single letter RATE
b. For other correspondent, u cents per XIII
ogramme, net.
For intermediate territorial transit each office
shall receive the amount it actually discusses for
such transit.
ARTICLE XIV.
The postal accounts between the two offices
shall be stated quarterly, and transmitted and
verified as speedily practicable, and the BAL
ancc found due shall be paid to the creditor of
flee either by exchange on London or Paris or
at the debtor office, as the creditor office NAV
desire.
The rate for the conversion of the money of
the two countries shall he fixed by common
agreement between the two offices.
ARTICLE XIV -....
When, in any port OF either country closed
mail is transferred from one vessel to another
without any expense to the Office of the country
where the transfer is made, such transfer shall
not be subject to any postal charge by one office
against the other
ARTICLE XVI
Official communications between the two Off
ces shall not be the occasion of any accounts on
either side.
ARTICLE XVII
Letters wrongly sent or wrongly addressed or
not deliverable for whatever cause shall be re-
turned to the originating office, at its expense
if any expense is incurred. Registered CORES,
pOndeuce OF all kinds, not deliverable for any
cause, shall also be returned i'm like manner All
other correspondence which cannot be delivered
shall remain at the disposition OF the receiving
office.
Any hostages upon CORES pondcnce returned
which shall have been charged against the Office
of destination, shall be discharged from the ac-
count
ARTICLE XVIII
The two offices shall, by mutual consent es-
tabsh detailed regulations for carrying those ar
ticles into execution, and they may modify such
regulations, in like manner, from time to time,
as the exigencies of the service may require
ARTICLE XIX
This convention shall take effect at n time +o
be fixed by common accord of the two admins
trations anC shall continue in force until termin-
ated by mutual agreement or otherwise until
one year from the date when one office shall have
notified the other OF its desire to terminate IT.
Executed in duplicate at Berne, this eleventh
day of October, a. D. 1867.
[sEAL.l JOHN A. KASSON,
Special Commissioner &c. DC
lsEAL.l DIR. j. DUBS.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Washington, November - 1867
Having examined aud considered the aforego-
ing articles of a convention for the ameliorution
of the postal intercourse between the United
States of America and the Swiss Confederation,
which were agreed W on and executed in dupli-
cate at Berne on the eleventh day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, by Hon.
John A Kasson, special commissioner, &C., &c,
ON behalf of this department. and by DR.. Jaques
Dubs, yice-presdent of the federal council and
chci of the federal council OF the Swiss Confed-
Grafton, the same are by me hereby ratified and
approved, by and with the advice and consent of
the President of the United States.
In witness whereof, have caused the seal of
the Post Office department to be hereto affixed,
with my signature, the day and year first above
written. E4.
IL. 5. ALEX. W RANDALL
Postmaster General.
hereby approve the aforegoing convention,
and in testimony thereof l have caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
IL. S. ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
WILLIAM IT. SEWARD
Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, November II, 1867.