The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-03-19


Cleveland, Ohio. Port Stanley.
Article II. The mails exchanged between tho
Offices of New York, Albany, Buffalo and Boston,
on the one side, and Toronto, Kingston, and
Montreal, the other, to pass each way as
through mails, mot to be opened at any interme-
diate frontier office.
Article Ill The postage to be charged in the
United States, letter not exceeding half an
ounce in weight. to or from Canada, shall be FIVE
cents foa any distance in the United States. not
exceeding three thousand miles and exceeding
three thousand miles, within the United States,
ten cents the single rate. Each additional half an
ounce or additional weight of less than half
ounce, to be charged additional rate: the
rates in this section mentioned, having been ad-
opted and agreed upon by the Postmaster Gene
raj of the United States, by and with the advice
and consent of the President
Article ". The postage to be charged in Can
ada on letter not exceeding half an ounce IN
weight, to from the United States, shall be i've
cents for aEy distance in Canada Every addi-
tional weight IF half ounce, additional
weight of6aess than half an ounce, TO be charged
a additional rate.
Article V. Upon all letters posted in the
United States 10 be delivered in Canada, or post
ed in Canada to be delivered in the United States.
these rates shall be combined in one rate, OF
which payment in advance shall be optional IN
either country. Less than the whole combined
rate cannot be prepaid
Article VI The Post-ofice Department of
the United States will collect and keep all the
postages unpaid letters from Canada, as well
as the postages on letters to Canada, prepaid in
the T. s., and the Post Office Departmental Canada
will collect and keep all the postages the
paid letters from the United States, well the
postages on letters prepaid in Canada to the
United States.
Article VII. Each mail despatched from one
country to the other shall be accompanied by
letter post bill, showing the number of letters
posted, and Distinguishing the paid from the
unpaid, with their postage in separate columns
Article VIII. The postage newspapers,
pamphlets, magazines, and all other printed mat
ter, must be prepaid, sent free to the line in
the country where posted and any postage af-
forwards accruing thereon, beyond the line, is to
be collected and retained by the Post-Ofie De-
partment of the country in which it accrues
Article TX. The Offices designated for the des-
patch and receipt of Canada mails, on the side of
the United States, will stamp % u States 80 upon
all letters sent into Canada for delivery and the
Offices designated for the despatch aud receipt of
United States mails, on the side of Canada will
stamp S Canada" upon all letters sent into the
United States for delivery.
Article x The Post-Of6ce departments of the
United States and Canada shall each return to the
other all dead letters, unopened and without
charge, every three months, oftener, as may
best suit the general regulations of each depart
ment.
Article XII. The expenses of transporting the
mails between the frontier Offices, where the con-
yeyanee is by water, shall be borne equally by
the two departments; but when the transporta-
tion is by land, the expenses shall be borne hy
each in proportion to the distance Travelled ovel
tho territory of each country. All contracts fol
such transportation shall, before they 60 into op
GRAFTON, De approved by the Post-ofice Depart
ment of each country.
Article XII. This arrangement shall go int
operation the sixth of april next, and it MAJ
be modified from time to time, may be agreed
upon by the parties thereto and it may be an
nulled at the desire of either part5, upon thre,
months notice. --z~s
In witness whereof, the Postmaster General 0
the United States, and the Postmaster-Ge General o
Canada have hereunto set their hands and aft xet
their seals. respectively, this twenty-ffth day o
March, in the year of our Lord thousan,
eight hundred and ffty-one.
f.. s. N. K. HALL.
L. s. j. NORRIS.