The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-11-20
OFFICIAL.
POSTAL C0NV ENTI0N WITH
 BELGIUM.
BELGIUM.

BGAGI U El- Convention for the Regulation Of the Postal Con-
 vcntion between She United States of America and Bel guIo
 The Post-0lice Departments of tho United States Of America and Of Belgium. being de- sirous to regulate by new Convention the postal intercourse between the two countries, the undersigned, being duly authorized by their respective Governments, have agreed upon the following articles - ARTICLE l. There shall be an exchange of 1 correspondence, by means of their respective Post Departments between the United States ! of America and Belgium, and this corresponc- enee shall embrace:
 l. Letters, ordinary aud registered.
 2 Newspapers, book-packets. prints of all kinds. (comprsiag maps, plans, engrayings, drawings, phoJograE hs, litographs, and all oth- CT Ike productions Of mechanical processes, shests of muajc, etc. and patterns or sam ples of merchandise, including grains and seeds.
 And such correspondence may be exchanged, whether originating h either of said countries and destined for the other, or originating in or destined for foreign countries to which tn ey may respectively servo as intermediates,
 ARTICLE IT. The offices for the exchange of mails shall be (a) on the part of the Unt ed states;
 l. New York,
 Boston
 (b) on the part of Belgium
 l. Antwerp.
 2. Ostand (rravelling Ofice)
 3. OGttnd, (IocaL)
 The two Post Departments may at any ime discontinue either ol said pllcoa of exchange CT establish others.
 ARTICLE III. Each office shall make it's own arrangements fer the dispatch of ita mails ;c the other cf.ic9 by regular lines or commap~ c4tion, and shall, at its own cost, pay the sx- pensa ot such intermediate transportation. 1t iB also agreed that tha cost O. international ocean and territorial transit of tue closed mails, between the respective frontiers, ghaii be first defrayed by that ona of the tw. de partments which shall have obtained from tho intermediates the most favorable pecuniary terms for such conveyance; and any amount 50 advanced hy ono for account of Lh0 other shall be promptly reimbursed.
 ARTICLE ", The standard weight for the single rate of postage and rule of progression shall be:
 l. For letters, b gr2mmes
 ? For all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first artic.er that which each Departmnnt shaI adopt for the mails which 1t dispatches to ahf oeher. adapted to the convenience and habitS of is interior administration.
 But each office shall give notice to the other of the standard weight it adopts, apd of any subsequent charges thereof.
 The rule of progression shall Always be an additional single rate for each additional sinEie weight or fraction thereof.
 The weight stated by the dispatchinE office shall always be accepted, saving the case of manifest mistake.
 ARTICLE V. The single rate oi poatago On the direct correspondence exchanged between the United States and Belgium shall be as fol- lows:
 l. On prepaid letters from tho United States, 15 cents
 ?. On paid letters from Belgium, 80 cen times.
 g. On all othar correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article the rate shall be, for the msiis sent, that which the despatching office shail adopt in conformity with the convenience and hapits of its interior administration But each office shall give no- tlCe 10 the otner oI tao E".e U auOpts' anu ct any subsequent change thereof
 ARTICLE VI Whenever tbero shall be estab~ hshed direct line of steam communication between the ports ot the United States and of Belgium, adapted to the regular transportation of the mails between the two countries and ac- ceptible to the two departments, 1t IS agreed that the international singe letter rate ap- pEcabe to th s route shall be reduced to ten cents in the United States and fifty centimes in Belgian, of which SIX cents (30 eentimes) shall represent She maritime rate; and for the other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article the maritime rate in such case shall be 10 cents (50 centimes) per kilogramme.