The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-29
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LAWS OF Tue UNITED STATES
Pcs.eS at TIE First Session of the Forty
FIRST Congress-.


Gxited States of America and the General Post
office of the Netherlands
Tue Undersigned, being thereunto duly au: hcr.
fzei by their respective Governments, have
agreed upon the following Articles for the amel
io-ati0n of the postal service between the United
States of America and the Kingdom OF the Meth
erlsnds-
AsrIcLs l. There shall be exchange Of CORE
spOnience bet seeu the United States of America
and the Kingdom OF the Netherlands by means Of
their respective post De- artments, and this COR
respoudence snail embrace:
1. Letters ordinary and registered
ID Newspapers, book packets. prints Of all
kind, Comprising MAPS, plans, epgravinss,
drawings, PHI tograPhs. iithograrhs, and all other
like production; o mechanical processes, sheets
If music &c > and patterns or samples of mer-
chardise, including grains and seeds
And such correspondence i,ay be exchanged
whether originating in either of said countries
sai destined for the other, originating in
destined for foreign countries to which these may
respectively Intermediates.
ARTICLE III. The Offices for exchange of mails
shall be. on the part Of the United States:
l. New York.
. Boston
On the part # the Netherlands:
The travelling Office Noertiyk-
Zach Post Department may at any time, after
notice to the other. discontinue either Of the OH
If exchange its side, always leaving one
otice, and the two Offices by agreement may at
any time establish additional offices of exchange.
ARTICLE Ill The principle is agreed that each
ohce shall make its own arrangements fr the
dispatch of its m tils to the other office By regular
lines of communication, and shall at its own cost
pay the expense Of such informed ate tIau>porta-
tiol. II is also agreed thIt the cost Ut interna
uoHal ocean and territorial transit IF the closet
nails between the fir 'ntiers Of the two countries
shall be first defrayef by that one % the two de-
partments which hail have obtained from the
Intermediates the most favorable pecuEiary
terms FIR such conveyance,
and any amount 80 advanced by one for account OF
the other shall be promptly reimbursed
ARTICLE W. The standard weight for the sin
gle rate of intern ,tiona postage AMI rule of pro-
erosion, shall be-
lst, For letters. Is grammes-
IL For all other correspondence mentioned in |
paragraph Of the first article. that which the
iespstching Office shall adopt for the mails which
70 despa;c to the other, adapted to the con- |
tion. But each ufh;- shall give notice to the |
other of The standard weight it adopts, aud of |
any subsequent change thereof.
The rule If progression shall always be an ad-
citional single rate for each aiditi nal standard
weight fraction thereof The weight stated
by the iepatching Office shall always be accepted,
except in case of manifest mistak.
AsrIcLg v. The single rate of postage on the
direct correspondence exchanged between tie two
administrations, subject u the reserve men
tson.d in Article VII shall be AS follows:
On letters from the United ST ties, 15cents, US.
9. On letters from the Netherlands, 20 cents
(Oatch-)
Sd. On ali other correspondence mentioned
in paragraph two of the first article, the rate
-hali be, for the mails despatched, that which
the despstching flee shall adopt, adapted to the
and habits If its interior aiministra-
tion- Bat each office shall give notice to the
other of the rate it adopts, and OF any subsequent
change thereof.
Article vi Whenever a regular line of steam
acceptable to the two Offices, may
be employed directly between any port of the
United States and any port of the north Of Eu-
rope at suca rates that the entire cost of trans
,,ortation between the two frontiers shall ex-
coed for each single letter rate cents (U. SD
and for each kiiogram Of other correspondence 10
c-nta U j in that it is agreed that the in
single letter rate of postage by such
line sh al be reduced to 10 cents fU S from the
United States and 25 cents Dutch from the I
Sethc l,nds. And the two offices shall by COM I
mon accord fix the time when this reduction shall
take effect {
An IcLz VII. The prepayment of postage on v
.riinary letters shall be optional, subject to '
he conditions in Article VIII, mentioned; but
N re .is.ered letters, and all other CORE
pondence mentioned in paragraph two of the
inst article, il shall be obligatory il
ARTICLE VIII. If however. the postage on any u
shall be prepaid insuficiently, it
hall nevertheless be forwarded to its destina-
ion, charged with the deficient postage, adding
nil amounts. instead of fractions. Of ore cent
j. g. or five cents Dutch.
Upon the delivery of any unpaid or insufficiently
aid letter. OF of any other insufficenty paid cor
es,,o ijsnce there shall be levied in the United
,sates a fin. not exceeding five cents, (U- },
md in the Netherlands not exceeding Is cents
Dutch). This fine and also the deficient
,1stage on all other correspondence than letters,
hell OF enter into accounts between the two
iFices but shall b. retained to the use of the col
eoting Office. 81
ARTICLE TX Registered co-respondence shall, Of
n addition to the postage be subject t. resis
ration fee exceeding ten cents ~. s.. in the VI
Jaited s aies, AMI not exceeding p cents
Dufcfl the Netherlands and this fee shall ii
ix,ys be prepaid
ARTICLE X. any correspondence may be reg ty
stored. vel! iuiernati nal correspondence as le
hat originating in destined for other countries
which these two adm -nistsatioas may respect th
yely serve a intermediates in either direction
n the Transmission If such registered articles Ell
ZACH department sh II notify the other Of the Ii
"urtries - which il may thus serve interme in
isry-
ARTICLE XII Accounts between the two Off es ed
hall be regulated on the following basis From
hs tot. amount If p-tages and register fees col I'll
cted by each Office letters, added to the total
mount Of prepaid po-tage and register fees IN til
ther correspondence which il dispatches, the de-
ostchin Office shall ded=ct the amount required, eft
the agreed rate, for the cost Of the intermediate bi
-.ssit thereof between the two frontiers, and the
m 1rn. of the net shall be divided be- oh
the two Offices in the proportion of three nu
hs IS 5ihs) to the United States office AMI two d
fths Y 5tiisl 10 the office Of the Netherlands VI
ARTICLE XII The correspondence men'inned
paragraph tro # he first article shall be des- de
,tched Under regulations To be established by the co
patching Office, hut always including the fol-
wing &c
Rir.t No packet shall contain anything which tn
all he closed against inspection. any Wi ten
mnu.1icaton whatever. except to state from
hom and 70 whom tho packet is sent. and the M
Imb and prize placed upon each pattern or pr
mpie ofnler b nlise- Gle
Sec nj. Sopsek-f may exceed two feet in len -th sh
one fn4t n any other dimension the equiva