The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-04
OFFICIAL.
Laaos Passed ~ the Second Session Of
The Fortieth Congress.

the FOrttetb Congress.
Convention between the General Post
Office of the United States OF Amer
lea and the General POST Office of
the Netherlands.
The undersigned, being thereunto
duly. authorized by their respective
Governments, have agreed upon the
following articles for the amelloratIon
of the postal service of the United
States of America and the Kingdom
of the Netherlands:
ARTICLE I.
There shall be an exchange Of cor
respondence between the United
States of America and the Kingdom
of the Netherlands by means of their
respective Post Departments, and this
correspondence shall embrace:
l.. Letters, ordinary and registered.
2. Newspapers, Book packets, prints
of all kinds Comprising maps, plans,
engraVings, drawings, photographs,
Autographs, and all other like pro-
ductions of mechanical processes,
sheets of music, etc. and patterns or
samples of merchandise, including
grains and seeds.
nD 0GCh EpOAluGhGS may W
exchanged, whether originating in
either of said countries and destined
for the other, or originating 10 or
destinedf for foreign countries to which
these may respectively serve as inter-
m~ediaries.
ARTICLE II.
The Offices for the exchange of
mails shall be on the part of the
United States:
/. New York.
2. Boston.
On the part of the Netherlands:
The travelling Office M0erdjk.
Each Post Department may at any
time, after notice to the other, diseOn-
tinue either of the Offices Of exchange
on its side. always leaving one office;
and the two offices by agreement may
at any time establish additional offices
of exchange.
ARTICLE III.
Each Office shall make its own ar.
engagements 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.
Ii is also agreed that the cost
of international ocean aud terri
toriaI 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 intermedi-
aries the most favorable pecuniary
term for such c~onveyance; and any
amount so advanced by one for an ac-
count of the other shall be promptly
reimbursed.
ARTICLE w.
The standard weight for the single
rate of international postage and rule
of progression shall be-:
/. For letters, ID grammes.
?. For all other correspondence,
mentioned In the second paragraph
of the first article, that which the dis
patching office shall adopt for the
mails which it dispatches to the 9th
or, 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 always be an additional single
rate for each additional standard
weighto or fraction thereof. The weight
stated by the despatching office shall
always be accepted, except in case of
manifest mistake.
ARTICLE v.
The single rate of postage on the
direct correspondence exchanged be-
tween the two administrations, sub
ject to the reserve mentioned in arti-
Gle Viii, shall be as follows:
- N fzkAO-r 60, AL4 TT~sAo1
States, 10 cents Gu. s.
2. On letters from the Netherlands,
40 cents (Duteh.)
,. On all other correspondence mem
toned ia the second paragraph of the
first article, the rate shall be, for the
mails despatched, that which the des-
patching Office shall adopt, adapted
to the convenience and habits of its
interior administration. But each
office shall give notice TO the other OF
the rate it adopts, and of any subse-
quent change thereof.
ARTICLE VI.
Whenever a regular line of steam
communication, acceptable to the two
Offices, may be employed directly
between any port of the Ualted
States and any port of the North
Of Europe at such rates that the
entire cost of transportation between
the two frontiers shall not exceed
for each single letter rate ) cents
GU. 81 and for each kilograu
of other correspondence 10 cent;
GU. s.; in that case it Is agreed thai
the international single letter rate OF
postage by such line shall be reduced
t. 10 cents Gu. s. from the United
States and % cents (Duteh) from tn
Netherlands. And the two offices
shall by common accord fix the time
when this reduction shall take effect
ARTICLE VII.
The prepayment of postage on ordi
nary letters shall be optional, subjec
TO the conditions in article VIII, men
toned; but on registered letters, AM
on all other correspondence mention
ed in paragraph the second of tn
first article. it shall be obligatory.
ARTICLE VIII.
IF, however, the postage on an
correspondence shall be prepaidinsui
fcientiy, it shall nevertheless be fol-
warded to its destination, charge
with the deficient postage, adding fu-
amounts instead of fractions of l Ger
fU. 81 or 3 cent Dutch Upon tn
delivery of any unpaid or insufficient
" paid letter, or of any other insult
GENTLY paid correspondence, ther
shall be a fine in the United Stat
not exceeding 3 cents Gu. So in I'll
Netherlands not exceeding ID cen
Dutch.) This fine and also the d
ficient postage on all other CORE
pondence than letters. shall not emit
into the accounts between the tv