Evening star., 1869-11-02
OFFICIAL.
Postal COnventi0u with the Neither.
laM(lS.

lands.
Dste,Eed Regaations arranged eet'ce n the General
the General Post Office Of TIE Netherlands, for the
Erecution IF The CenreRtion g the 26th day Of
September, 1861.
ARTICLE 1. The exchange Office Of Moerdyk
shall make up closed mail for the exchange Of
flee of New York. The exchange office of New
York shall on its part make up closed mail for
MOerdyk. Until further notice the only eN-
change Office on the part Of the United States
shall be in New York.
ARTICLE III. Each mail exchanged between
the two offices shall be accompanied by letter
blu, showing the pOstages, the charges OF transit
the fees. ETC.. accruing to each office upon the
different kinds OF correspondence. The form of
this letter bill shall follow the models A and B
hereto annexed, and they shall cOnsecutively
be n,ml q ed by the despatching office during
each calendar year. The receiving Office shall
immc cdiately acknowledge the receipt.
ARTICLE Ill. The exchange offices shall Ill
vide the correspondence which they despatch
into a suitable number of separate packages, ac-
coItling to the letter bill. Each of these pack
ages shall bear the proper etiquette, and number
corresponding to the letter bill.
ARTICLE ~. When more than a single rate is
chargeable upon any letter or other article, the
indicated by the despatching Office by figure i'm
the upper lett corner OF the address.
ARTICLEV. Registered correspondence shall
be described in a register list, following the
model q, hereto annexed. All registered
letters shall be enveloped together in a
strong paper, securely fastened, and the
packet Inscribed with the word 4angeteekend
or Registered, and placed in the mail. The
blank in the letter bill for expressing the
number OF registered articles shall be filled by
letters expressing the number In case no regis
tered articles are sent, the proper blank of the
letter bill shall be filled with the word Niha or
vi.
ARTICLE VI. The registered letters des-
patched shall be acknowledged mm adiately by
the receiving office by the Irst mail following
the receipt. If the vericatiOn by the receiving
Office shall disclose Am error of any kind in the
register list, it shall be also, by the first mail,
notified to the despatchng Office.
ARTICLE VII. The two administrations mu-
tually engage to take nee,!ful measures for the
careful Transmission of registered correspond
ence, and for pursuing it when lost; but it is
peenniapy responsibiIify in case of loss. s ''' any
ARTICLE VIII. All letters exchanged between
the two Offices shall indicate by stamp writing
thereon the Office OF origin. Correspondence
fully paid to destination shall be stamped
Franco in the Netherlands, and Paid 4H in the
United States Registered articles shall be
stamped AdRgeteeEeRd in the Netherlands, and
in the United States, Registered. Correspondence
insnfficiently prepaid shall be stamped i'm the
Netherlands OntoereikeRd aud i'm the United
States Iasn5icienhy Paid, and the amount
on the face. Whenever different lines OF
communication shal be employed between the
two offices, the letters unpaid and nsufficiently
paid shall be stamped to Indicate the route by
which they are sent.
ARTICLE IN. The countries with which and the
conditions on which letters, ordinary and regis
tered, and also other cOrrespOndences, may be
exchanged in the open mails from the Neither
lands To the United States, are indicated i'm the
table marked ID, hereto annexed.
ARTICLE n The respective exchange offices
shall mark in Ted ink. i'll the upper right corner
of the address OF prepaid letters sent for transit
i'm the open mail, the amount of the postage due
to the foreign office of destination; and in the
same manner, but in tlock ink, shall mark the
amount OF the postage due to the foreign office OF
origin upon the unpaid letters sent in transit.
ARTICLE NJ. Correspondence under band
,; Thich does not conform to the condit0ns men-
winch are IN no part prepaid shall he retained
hy the administration OF origin. or, if sent, shall
not be subject to account.
AETIcLE MI. Letters originating in or des-
tined for foreign countries, sent in the open mail
through the United States, OF through the Meth
erlan.ls, and which are insuficiently prepaid,
shall be transmitted wholly unpaid, and
account taken of the amount prepaid between
the two administrations.
Article XIII. Letters and all registered ar
tcles not deliverable shall he respectively re-
turned to the dcspatching administration at the
end OF every month. The postage on unpaid let
ters so returned shall he deducted from the
cont against the Office originally charged there
with. The postage on prepaid letters ~ returned
shall remain in the accounts as originally en-
tered. The expense OF transit Of unpaid cores
pondence which has been transmitted by either
administration in closed mails and which shall
he returned TO the despatching Office as not de-
liyerable. shall be deducted from the original
amount charged for transit upon declaration of
the amount by the Office claiming the reduction
No charge will he made by either administration
for the transit Of correspondence returned as not
deliverable.
AETIcLE XIV. All correspondence wrongly
addressed or missent shall he returned without
delay by the receiving Office to the the exchange
office which despatched il. The receiving office
shall also correct accordingly, in the column of
veriicatiOn, the original entries Of the letter bill
relating to such correspondence. The articles
Of like nature addressed to persons who have
changed their residence shal! he mutually for
warded or returned, charged with the rate that
would have been I.aid at the first destination.
ARTICLE XIV. The despatching exchange Office
shall state on the letter bill to the intermediate
exchange offices the exact number Of single
rates OF letters Tor weight. if requiredD and the
total weight of the other correspondence which
shall be despatched in closed mails.
ARTICLE XVI Ii Is is understood that the ac-
counts between the two offices shall be estab-
lished On the respective letter bills, in the pro-
per money OF the despatching office. For the
international charges the reduction of these
moneys shall he effected in the general accounts,
at the rate Of i2-lOO guilders for one dollar Of
charges on the letter bill, in the money OF the
despatching office, the cent of the United States
and two and half cent. OF the Netherlands
shall he taken as equivalents. 1t i also. under
stood that the quarterly accounts shall he paid
respectively in gold, and in the denominations
Of the money of the creditor Orice.
ARTICLE NVII. The quarterly accounts shall
he prepared By the respective despatching offices
OF exchange. They shall be based upon the ac
acknowledgements OF receipt, and shall respectively
be arranged according to the models hereto an
nexed, and marked T. and F. A recapitulatiOn
OF these accounts showing the defintive results,
alike for the debit and the credit, shall be pre-
pared by the United States office, and shall then
be transmitted, with the accounts OH which it il
based, tor the examination OF the Netherland
office.
Done in duplicate and signed in Paris the
twcnty-sixth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
J.P EorsfEDr.
.n,J Director Of he Gen'roi
Post Office Of the Netherlands.
JOHN A. EAsSON,
Special CommissioaeT, ETC., etc.
PosT-OFPICE DEPARTMENT.