The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-19
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES.

Agreed upon between the Post Office Department
of the United States and the Post Office Depart
ment of the Hanseatic Republic of Hamburg,
providing for the registration of valuable Let
tiers, to be conveyed by the United States and
Bremen Lines of Steamers, direct, between New
York and Hamburg.
Article L. Letters alleged to be valuable,
posted at any post-ofce in the United States, and
addressed TO any part of the German Austrian
Postal Union, posted in the German Austrian
Postal Union, and addressed to the United States,
and deliverable at the respective exchange offices
of New York or Hamburg, to be thence conveyed
by the United States and Hamburg lines of steam
ers, shall, from and after the first day of Deccm-
Der, 1868, be registered at the Offices of mailing.
on the application of the person posting the
Prorided, That the full postage chargeable there
on to destination, toge her with registration fee
of five cents each letter, be prepaid ut such
mailing office: And prorided also, That such
registration shall not be compulsory, and shall not
render the respective postofce departments of the
United States or Hamburg, their revenues, liza
bic for the loss of such letters packets, the
contents thereof.
Article II. All such letters or packets mailed
in the intee:or of the United States, of the Ger
man Austrian Postal Union, respectively, shall be
received, registered, and receped for as directed
in the general regulations issued in each country
in regard to the registration of valuable letters,
and shall be sent to the exchange offices of New
York or Hamburg, resp ectiyey, for the purpose
of being forwarded thence by the next direct
steamer.
Article III. The respective exchange Offices of
New York and Hamburg shall make separate
letter bill for each registered letter. or parcel of
registered letters, originally mailed at said ex-
change offices, sent to them to be forwarded
prescribed by the regulations referred to in Art
icle L., and shall enter therein the name of the
person addressed, the post-ofice to which it is
be mailed for delivery, and the rate of postage for
each letter. The postmaster of said exchange office
will then mail each such letter parcel of letters
in separate package and seal each pa after
tying it in the usual manner. The letter bills of
such registered letters shall not be enclosed in the
packages containing them, but shall be enclosed
in separate wrapper envelope, sealed, and ad-
dressed to the postmaster of the corresponding
exchange Office of Hamburg New York
Article ". On the receipt of registered letters
for delivery distribution either of the respect
i've exchange offices of Hamburg New York
the postmaster of such receiving office will com
pare the letters with the bill and endorse it "cor
rect, if it is found so, will note the error if
there be one, in the manner prescribed with re-
gard to registered letters received from an inland
post-ofce. He will then fill up the corresponding
return bill, noting upon it whether correct or 9th
erwise, and will see that it is returned by the first
mail thereafter to the sfice of mailing New York
or Hamburg, as the case may be-
Article 5. Registered letters received atNe
York from Hamburg, and destined for inland
post-office, shall be forwarded in the same manner
as other registered letters originally mailed at
either office.
Article VI. The United States and Hamburg
SoSt-OmceS suall TeclpfOcally account 10 eacn
other upon such registered letters shall be ex-
changed between them in the same manner as pre-
scribed in the postal convention signed at Wash
ington on the 18th day of June. and at New York
on the 30th day of June, 1857 but the registra-
ton fee of five cents shall accrue to the United
States Post Office Dep frtment upon all registered
letters sent from the United States to Ham burg,
and to the Hamburg Post Office Department upon
all registered letters sent from Hamburg to the
United States.
In witness whereof, have hereto set our
names and affixed the seals of our respective off,
ces. this eleventh day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty three, at the city of
Washington.
lsEAL.1 M. BLAIR,
Postmaster General, U. 8.
GsEAL.] r. SCHLEIDEN.
Minister Resident of the Hanseatic Republics
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE
Agreed upon between the Post Office Department
of the United States and the Post Office Depart
ment of the Hanseatic Republic of Hamburg
providing foi the Conveyance ofthe Intern ational
Correspondence in time of War or threatening
- War N@ .
Whenever, in consequence of war, or threatenine Q
war, the International correspondence between the
United States and Hamburg cannot be convened
by United States or Hamburg steamers it NAV
be convey ed by steamers under neutral flag sub
Ject to all the stpalations rules and regulations