The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-04

CURED, at the agreed rate TOT TIC Gust
Of the intermediate transit thereo.
between the two frontiers; and the
amount of the two net sums sinai be
divided between the two offices, IL
| the proportion of three .fiiths to the
United States Office and two-ffths to
the Office of the Netherlands.
ARTICLE XII. M
The correspondence mentioned in
the second paragraph of the first ar
ticle SHALL be despatched under regu-
lations to be established by the de.
spatching office; but always including
the following:
/. No packet shall contain any.
thing which shall be closed against in
spection, nor any written communi-
cation whatever, except to state from
whom aud to whom the packet is
sent, the numbers and the prices
placed upon patterns or samples OF
merchandise.
2. No packet may exceed two feet
Ia length or one foot in any other d.
mensIon, or the equivalent IN Dutch
measurement.
8. Neither office shall be bound to
deliver any article the importation of
which may be prohibited by the laws
or regulations of the country of des-
tination.
4. So long as as any customs or
stamp duty may be ehaTgeable on any
articles exchanged II the mails, such
duty may be levied for the use of the
customs or stamp revenue.
s.. Except as above no charge what
ever, otherwise than is herein ex
pressly provided, shall be levied or
collected on the correspondence X
changed.
ARTICLE XIII.
The two Post Departments shall
establish by agreement and In con
formity with the arrangements in
force at the time. the conditions upon
which the two offices may respectively
exchange in open mails the CORE.
spondence originating in or destined
to- other foreign countries to which
they may reciprOcally serve as inter
mediaries. Lie is always understood,
however, that such correspondence
shall only be charged with the rate
applicable to direct international cor
respondence augmented by the post
age due to foreign countries, and by
any other tax for exterior service.
ARTICLE XIV.
Each office aceords TO the other the
privilege uf transit of closed mails cx-
changed in either direction, between
the latter and any country to which
the other may serve as an intermedi-
airy, by its usual means of mail trans
-o.AA- -LafL1n an ao- ~ IanI
Such territorial transit shall be re-
ciprocally free of expense.
For such transit by sea the United
States office shall receive as follows:
/. For transit across the waters OF
the Atlantic ocean, pr between the
two frontiers by sea: (a) For letters,
8 cents Gu. 81 per single letter rate:
(b) for other correspondence, IL cents
Gu. So per k~ilogramme. net,
2. For transit across the waters OF
the Pacific ocean (a) For letters, 10
cents GU. 50 per single letter rate (b)
for other correspondence, 20 cents
Gu. 81 per ~kilogramme, net.
For such transit by sea, the Mother
land Office shall receive as follows:
For transit across the waters of the
Atlantic ocean or between the two
frontiers: (a) For letters, S cents
GU. 50 per single letter rate; (b) for
other correspondence, II cents GU. 50
per k~ilogramme, net.
ARTICLE XIV.
The postal accounts between the
two offices shall be stated quarterly,
and transmitted and verified as speed
lily as practicable, and the balance
found due shall be paid to the credi-
| tor office, either by exchange on Lon
don or at the debtor office. as the
creditor office may desire. The rate
| for the conversion oil the money oil
the two countries shall be fixed by
common agreement between the two
offices.
ARTICLE XVI.
When in any port of either coun.
try a closed mail is transferred from
one vessel to another without any ex-
pense to the Office of the couatry
where the transfer is made, such
transfer shall not be subject to any
postal charge by one Office against the
other. IS
ARTICLE XVII
Official communications between thu
two offices shall not be the occasion
of any accounts on either side.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Letters wrongly sent or wrong ~ All
dressed, or not deliverable for what
ever cause, shall be returned TO the
originating Office at its expense, ifan.
expense is incurred. Registered cor.
respondence of all kinds not de
liverable for any cause shall
also be returned IN like man.
ner. All other correspondence whic
cannot be delivered shall remain q
the disposition of the Receiving Office
ANY hostages upon correspondent
returned, which shall have bee
charged against the office of destins
ton. shall be discharged from the a,
count.
ARTICLE XIX.
The two Offices shall by mutual cor
sent establish detailed regulations 70
carrying these Articles into execution
and they may modify such regulation
: in like manner from time TO time, {
the exigencies of the service may II
quire.
ARTICLE Xxx.
This Convention shall take efe,
on the first day of January next, an
shall continue in force nutil termin;
ted by mutual agreement; or otheI
{ wise until one year from the dat
when one office shall have notifie
: the other of its desire to terminate
But the two offices may by comma
3 accord modify it at any time, as Il
s e~xigencies of the service may requir
e IL is subject to approval On the oil
8 part by the POstmaster-Genera of ii
; United States, on the other by ii
Minister of Finance Of the Nethe
r lands.
Executed in duplicate at the Hagu
tha S~weDtv-sjxth dav Of Santamhar