The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-12-02
oFFIOIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES;
PASSED AT THE
FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY.
FIRST CONGRESS.

I
FIRST CONGRESS.
! Convention agreed upon betweca the Post
/ Departments of he United Staies Of
America.Gnd of North German Union
for The AmeliOration Of Postal Service
5etrreen the twQ couHrites.
ARTICLE l, There shall be an exchange
OF correspondence between the United
States of America and OF the North
German Union. by means Of their rssprc.
rive Post Departments, and this CORES,
poudencs shall embrace:
| lst. Letters, ordinary and registered.
81, Newspapers, book packets prints
Of all kinds, Comprising maps, plans, en-
cravings, drawings, photographs, liIho
graphs, and all other like productions Of
mechanical proceSsps, sheets of muSic,
&C. and patterns or samples Of mer-
cLandise, including grains and seeds,
And such correspondence may be eI.
changed whether originating in either OF
said countries and destined for foreign
countries TO which these may respective
J serve ss Intermediates.
ARTICLE II, The Offices for the ex-
change Of mails shall be,-(D on the
part Of the United States,
lst New York.
end, Boston.
3rd. Portland.
4th. Detroit.
9th. Chicago,
(b) On the part of the North German
Union;
1sG Aachen, Air-la Chappelh)
9nd. Bremen.
3rd. Hamburg.
The Two Post Departments may at any
time discontinue either of said offices Of
exchange or establish others BY mutual
consent
ARTICLE Ill. Each Office shall make
its own arrangements for the despatch
of lis mails TO the other office by regular
lines Of communication, and shall, at itS
own cost, pay the expense oiisuch intsr
mediate transportation,
The Two Offices, however, mutually
agree. that, in making contracts for the
despatch of 10 ii, from American ports,
or from Europfen portss those steOmeis
aud AiUeS sb6efd slwEys srbs'UHpt ptgysdssp
lar as consistent with the rates .of post.
age, by which the mails despatched shall
earliest arrive at their destination; and
when the speed is substantially the came.
that tie most favorable pecuniory con-
dhions should be preferred. It's also
agreed that the cost Of international
ocean and territorial transit Of The closed
mails. between The respective frontiers,
shall be 6rst Delayed by that one Of the
two Departments which shall have OBJ
tanned from The Intermediates the most
fayorab" pecuniary terms for such con.
veyancc; and any amount so advanced
by one for account Of the OF er shall be
promptly reimbursed,
ARTICLE ". The standard weight for
the single rate of iulernational postage,
and rule of progression, shall be:
lst For letters. Is grammes.
2d For all other correspondence
msnroned in paragraph two Of the first
article. that which the despstching of
fce shall adopt for the mails which it
dispatches 10 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 il adopts, and Of any subsequent
changes thereof.
The rule of progression shall always
be an additional single rale for each Od'
di,ional standard weight or fraction
thereof. The weight stated by the deS>
patching office shall always be accepted
except in cases OF manifest mistake.
II is, however, understood that so
long, as the German Office employs the
10th as its standard for the single weight
Of letters which il dispatches, It slialI al
so be accS ptsd by the United States Of.
fee as ,he eqiivulen, Of 10 gromhes in
respect TO the mails which it receives
from'tbe German office.
ARTICLE V The single rate of post
age OIL the direct correspondence ex.
changed between the two odminiSlra,
tions shall be "a follows:
lst On letters from he United States
via direct line oil steamers to Hamburg
and Bremen, Conditioned that the sea
rate in such case shall not exceed FIVE
cents for single letter rate aud ten cents
per kilogrSm for other correspondence
ten cents
ID. On letters from the North Ger
man Union via said direct line (SuhjeCl
TO tho same condition four siIber grOI-
chen.
Sd. On letters from the United States
via England, fifteen cOnIs,
4Ib On lctlers from the North Ger