Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-01-27
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Postal Convention between the Uni
ted states ard Prussia, signed at
washipGton, I7th July, and nc Ber-
Lin, 0edh August, 1852,

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General Poh once 81 Pruiiia, for he recipro-
cal Receipt and DsiipsrvoS LsfierS and PdeksfI
On closed Malf, 10 BE- conveyed through England
yndsr q, 50 Article ~ ias PoIai Trsatg e,istsn
December, lsAs, and through Belgium az ,seii IN
virtue Of a CONVENTION beireen PTt9fid and Bel
gtvT, 2, bsi,sesI Greet Briiain and Belgium,
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, q. sad sndsr re Auiaoriiy above eitsd
heeen hs Unitsd Natti and Pruisid are hereby
ARTICLE 1. The post-oGices Of New York
and Boston shall be the United States Offices
Of Exchange, and Aachen (Aix-la. Chapeiie)
shall be the Prussian ONCE Of exchange OF
all closed malls between tho two countries
bymeans Of the American and Engllsh, and
the English and Belgian mall lines. Ad-
diLional or different offices OF exchange may
hereafter be selected In either or both ooun-
tries by mutual agreement Of the two Post
Administrations
ARTICLE ii. The International correspond
ence, as hereinafter stated, between the
United States, or lts Territories, and Prussia,
including all tho States now belonging 10, or
which may hereafter join the German
Austrian Postal Union, will be subject 10
the following postal charges, Wig; The United
States postage on each letter or packet not
exceeding half an ounce In weight will be
cents the charge imposed 70 Ileet the
expenses Of the transmission In closed mails
between the two countries, including sea
and British and Belgian transit postage, will
DO 90 cents the Prussian postage cents,
or what iS practically equivalent thereto in
Prussian coin 30 cents.
Upon all letters originating and posted In
one country aud deliverable In the other,
these rates of postage shall DO combined
into one rate, OF which payment in advance
shall be optional In either country. It shall
not however, DO permitted to pay less than
the whole combined rate. II the letter is Of
the weight OF half an ounce or under, the
combined rate will be 80 cents. Above half
an ounce, aud not over ono ounce, 90 cents.
Above one ounce, but not exceeding two
ounnes, tl.20. And tho postage will In
crease In this scale Of progression, to witi
An additional 90 cents for each additional
ounce or fraction Of an ounce.
ARTICLE III. The United States Offices Of
exchange, In charging postage duo TO the
post offices Of Prussia, shall uniformly make
use Of weights, having the American ounce
for unit, with Its divisions into half and
quarter ounces, and the Prusslan Offices OF
exchange, In charging the postage due 10
the United States, shall uniformly make use
Of weights having the Prussian 10th for
unit, 1.-TWO 10th being considered equal 10
ono ounce American.)
ARTICLE ". On all letters originating
and posted In other countries beyond the
United States and mailed to ond deliverable
In Prussia, or In any other Of tho States
forming tho German Postal Unioni or orlgi.
| mating and posted In countries beyond the
states forming said German Postal Union,
and mailed 10 and deliverable In the United
States or Its Territories, the foreign postage
(othor than that Of the states belonging to
tho German Austrian Postal Union, and
other than that Of the United States) is "a
be added to the postage stated In Article H.
And the two POST Once Departments are
mutually to furnish each other with llsts
stating tho foreign countries, or place.
| In foreign countries, to which the foreign
postage and the amount thereof must bI
| absolutely prepaid, or must be LEFT unpaid
And until such lists are duly furnished
neither country Is to mall to the other
through the closed mails, any letter from
foreign countries beyond IL, or foreign
countries beyond the country to which TIT
closed mall Is sent.
ARTICLE V. Newspapers, not weighing
more than two ounces each, may DO sent 10
said closed malls, when the whole postage
Of six cents is prepaid thereon at the mall
Ing ONCE. The PruBsian charge will b,
two cents, or the nearest practicable equiya.
lent In Prussian coin, per newspaper,-tht
Prusslan office to account to Belgium for itI
tnnslt postage thereon, when the neWspa
per IL sent In closed mails from the United
states; and the United States charge o.
postage will be four cents pei, newspaper
the United States TO account with the Brit
lsh Post Once, both for the British transit
postage Of two cents thereon, (whother thu
paper is sent from or received In the Unitet
btates,) and for the Belgian transit postagt
Of one cent each on all newspapers sent In
said closed mails from Prussia. The Prus
alan newspaper charge Of two cents, and thu
American charge Of four cents, Is to be IL
all cases collected Of the sender and nj
| 10- sIalSoI siIssu HumItsou Ia puUu UiUsoG
malls unless the whole postage thereon shall
have been prepaid. Two-thirds OF sucl
newspaper postage shall be credited TO tn,
United States, and ono-third to Prussia
whether the same Is collected In Prussia o.
the United States. Said newspapers are Il
be subject TO the laws and regulations o
each country, respectively, in regard Il
their liability 10 be rated with letter postag
when containing written matter, or for an,
other cause specified In said laws and regu
latlons. They must be sent In marrow
bands, open at the sides or ends.
AKTIOLE VI. The PruBsian Post Once
TO account TO the United States Post. Oflic
In respect 10 all letter hostages collected b.
Prussia from tho closed mails, as follow
viz, On malls sent from the United Statei
for each unpaid letter Weighing half a
ounce or less, twenty-three cents. Aud ais
on mails sent from Prussia, for each pre-
paid letter Of half an ounce or under, twenty
i've cents. And, in addition thereto, I'll
Prussian ONCE is to account 10 Belgium 70
ita transit rate on all letters received In sal
closed mAils from the United States. III
United States Post-Ofnee, when II collect
the postage on letter. sent In said close
malls, 10 TO account TO the Prussian Post
once as follows, viz; On mails sent frol
the United States, for each prepaid lettS
weighing half On ounce or less, seven cents
And also on mails sent from Prussia, Il
each unpaid letter Of half an ounce or unde
I'VE cents. And tho United States Pos
Once Is TO account TO the British Post. on
for British transit postage at the rate Of lft
seven and one half cents per ounce when Il
, malls arc conveyed by the British packe
: across the Atlantic, and at the rate Of sove
teen and one half cent? per ounce when col
yeyed by the United States packets aero
the Atlantic, In either direction; In addltlC
to which the United States Post. Once Is
account 10 the British Post-0alce for Il
Belgian transit postage, at eight cents p,
. ounce on all letters sent In said closed NAL
. from PrusAiai that is, whenever, In all Il
!, above cases, the British and Belgian conve
. | hhONb NIc uueus
a ARTICLE VII. The United States engal
I: thatCin the event Of any future reduction
the United states and Great Britain OF Il
Z Atlantic sea postage on closed mails, &C
|. responding reduction shall at the same tin
i DO made In their charge against the Pru
q sian Office on account Of the Atlantic 81
; conveyance OF letters under this couventio
II ARTICLE VIII. The rates OF postage her
: In agreed on, being based on the supposltit
that four letters to the ounce will be Rbo
the average number, II 10 mutually BtlpulAt
Il and agreed, In order TO compensate to eth
u party the loss which might be sustained
!. case tho average should be less than four
e the ounce, that higher rates OF postage
}; sufficient TO prevent loss to either part
Il shall DO established by agreement betwe
the Post Department. Of the two countrii
as soon as practicable after the accounts
4 single year have been examined and settle
u and thereupon such changes shall be ma
Ia the sixth article Of this convention
shall be Just and equitable. r.I'. u
/, ARTICLE TX. The closed mails will
Il made up at the office OF New York or Bosto
" in the United States respectively, as the CO
= VeJance may be directed by the United Stat
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