The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-18

CORRIC1ALl
Passed At GRe First Sessions Of tie Forty
f6ss Congyess.

Convention agreed upon between the Post Depart
ments Of the United States of America and @
the North German Unkn for the Aneliorafiol
Of the Postal Service between the two Ccun
tries.
ARTICLE l. There shall be an exchange Of cor
re.poudeuce between the United States Of Amer
and the North German Union, by means O
their respective post departments; and this
r-spondence shall embrace
I-t Letters ordinary and registered
ID Newspapers. ook-packets, prints of al
kind, Comprising MAPS plans, engravings
drawings. phi tagraph-. iiihegraphs and all other
Ike productions o. mechanical Processes sheet.
f music. &c y and patterns or samples Of mer
chaudIse. including grains and seeds
And such correspondence may be exchanged;
~hether ori-inating in either OF said countrie,
AMI destined for the othe-, organizing IN OF
destined for foreign countries which these NAV
.espectIyeiy serve Intermediates.
AETICLE III The Offices fOr the exchase Of
mails shall tie
(ol on the part of the United States:
ist- New York.
~. Boston.
Sd POrtl md.
lth. Tetr,it-
9Th. Chic,se-p-
90 on The part of the North German Union:
lst. AacEen, ak la Chapeile.)
.. Bremen.
- Hamburg
The two st departments may at any time dis
continue either Of said Offices of exchange, or
establish others by mutual consent
ARTICLE III Each office shall make its own
arrangements Tor the despatch Of its mails t. the
"sher office by regu ar lines Of communication
and sh ,ui ar it, own cost pay the expense of
such intermediate transportation
The two Offices however mutually agree, that,
II making contracts for the despatch of mails
from American ports. or from European Ports,
t1oss steamers ami lines should always be EN-
Jloyei far consistent with the of post
age, by which the mills de patched shall EARLIEST
arrive at their destination: and whei, the speed
= Substantially the same, that the favorable
pscunilry conditions should be preferred. 1t is
also agreed that the cost of international ocean
and territ fil transit # the closed mails between
the respective from iers shall be first defayed by
that one If the two departments which -hal have
obtained from the Intermediates the most favor
able pecaniary terms for such conveyance; and
any amount 50 advanced by one for account of the
ether shall he promptly reimbursed.
ARIIcLEIv The standard weight for the Elm
gle rate ef international postage and rule Of pro-
erosion. shall be-
ist, For letters. Is grammes.
81 For all other correspondence mentioned in
paragraph TIVE of the first article that which the
office shall adopt FIR the mails which
ii dispatches to the other, adapted to the con- |
venience and habits of its interior administra- |
ton But each office shall give notice TO the |
other of the standard weight il adopts, and of |
Any subsequent change thereof.
The rule Of progression shall always be an ai- |
ditionsl single for each additi nal standard |
ly the deSpa;ching Office shall always be accepted
except in case of manifest mistake
1t is. however. understood that so long the |
German Office employs the ioh its standard for /
the single weight of letters which it dispatches,
il shall also be accepted by the United States
of'ice the equivalent If Is grammes in respect |
20 the mails which it receives from the German
ofiice-
ARTICLE v The single rate Of postage on the
firect correspondence exchanged between the two
I shall be as follows
ist- On letters from the United States via
direct line of steamers to Hamburg and Bremen.
conditioned that the sea rate in such cases shall
not exceed Eve cents for single letter rate and
ten cents por kilogram for other correspondence
Ten cents.
ii On letters from the North German Union
: Ia said direct line, Subject to same condi'ion)
four silber groschen.
81. On letters from the United States via
England, fifteen cents
4th. On letters from the North German Union
ria England. six silber grUschen.
Sth. Of the international letter postage via
England, the ocean single letter rate shall not
xceed eight cents. nor shall! the English and
Belgian single letter transit rates exceed one
,ent each.
9TH. 1t is further agreed, that whenever any
,ther regular line of steam communication. &C
'ertsble 10 the two Offices. may be employed
iirectly between any port of the United States
.hd ANY port of the north of Europe at such
rates that the entire cost OF transportation be-
ween the two frontiers shall not exceed for
-sch single letter rate FIVE cents. and for each
.ilogrsm If other correspondence ten cents. in
hat case the international single rate of letter
-Setage by such line shall be refused to ten
a.nts.
tn. On II other correspondence mentioned
n paragraph two Of the first article, the rate
'rsll be. for the mails dispatched, that which
he despstching office shall adopt. adapted to the
.'nyenience and habits Of its interior admin stra
ion. Bat each Office shall give notice 10 the
heT Of the rate il adopts, and OF any subsequent
lang- thereof. III
AR IcIE VI. The Prepayment Of postage on a
Urinary letters shall he optional, sutject TO
he conditions in Article WI mentioned: but
= registered letters, and an other CORE I
pon;rnce mentioned in paragraph two Of the '
Inst article, il shall be obligatory
Article VII If however. the postage on any
Jurisprudence shall be prepaid insufiiciently, it
hail nevertheless he forwarded to its destina
is.n. but charged with the deficient postage
Upon the delivery of any uapaid or insufHciently
sid letter, of any other insuthcently paid cor
as;,oudence, there shall be levied in the United
.ares a fine not exceeding five cents and in the
0rtb German Uniob additional charge not ex-
.eCiing two siter croscten. This fine, OF addi-
1rlal charge as well as the deficient postage on
! other ca re-pond-nc- than letters. shall not :,
,ter into the accounts between the two Offices,
1t shall be retained to the of the collecting
ice |
ARTICLE VIII The correspondence mentioned
Paragraph two ofrhe first article shall be des-
;ced under regulations to be established by the ii
spatching Office, tut always including the fol- A
wing OF
First. No packet shall contain anything which n
all be closed against inspection, nor any written
whatever. except to state from al
,orn and whom the packet is sent. and the 81
lmber and price placed Dpon each pattern or
mple ofmer handise.
Second No packet may exceed two feet in length,
one foot IN any other diinen-itn.
r,f7ic sJla he hCVYn To l