The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-15
(ORElCIALI
LAWS OF TaE UNITED STATES
Passed at tie First Session Of the Forty
fiYsf Congress.


kinb, teomprisis MAPS. plans. engravinss
drawings. ph txraPh,. ii'hugraphs, and all "the
Ike producticsi mechanical pr.ress-s, sheet
20 music. &c } and patterns OF samples II me,
chAndise, Including grains and seeds
And such correspondence may be exchanged
whether originating in either OF sAii countrie
and destined for the osher, originating in o
destined Eor foreign countries to which these ma
respectively serve ~ Intermediates.
ARTICLE III The Offices ter the exchage o
nails shall tie
Ia on the part Of the United States
est New York.
~. Boston.
81 Porrl md.
4:h. Detroit.
sth. Chicago.
(b) on the part of the North German Union
l-t- Aschen, (AlA La ChapeIle.)
IL. Bremen
81 Hamburg
The twY psf departments may At any time dis.
continue either Of said Offices of exchange, @,
establish others by mutual consent.
ARTICLE Ill. Each Office shall make its own
arrangements for the despatch # its mails To the
.ther office by regu ar Inns of Communication ;
and should AT its own cost pay the expense OF
such intermediate transportation.
The two Offices. however, mutually agree, that,
in making c,ntracrs fr the despatch of mails
from American ports, fr,m Eur-peaa ports,
tn.,se steamers AMI lines should always be en-
l.oyed, FIR Consistent with the Of post
sge, by wh the m nils de patched shall .riiest
arrive at their defamation: and whel the speed
Is Substantially the same, that the favorable
Iecuniary Conditions should be preferred. 1t is
also agreed that the co-t of International ocean
and territ aiAl transit the el,.ed mail, between
the respective frDn ier- shall De first def Ayed by
THAI one Il the two depsrtme-lt wh ch hal have
obtained from the inter rsediaries the 1T favor
able pecuniary terms f'r such convey .nce. sud
any amount 80 sdvauceti by for Of the
other shall be promptly reimbursed.
ARrIcLEIV The standard weight FIR the -in
gle rate 81 international Postage and rule Of pro-
erosion. shall be-
st, For letters. Is grammes-
II For all other correspondence mentioned in
paragraph two Of the first article that witch the
;e~psfching ONCE shall .dnpt ( r the m.,ls which
IL despatches to the other, adapted To the
venience and habits of Its interior adninistra-
ton But each Office shall give notice to the
other OF the standard weight it adopts, and Of
any subsequent change thereof.
The rule Of progression shall always he al
dtional single rate fnr each aatliti nal Standard
weight fraction thereof. The weight stated
by the dezpatching ufce shall always be acce p.ed
except in case Of manifest mistake
II is, h..w-ver understood that so long a. the
German ONCE npicys the 10 as its standard for
the single weight Of letters which il dispatches,
il shall aisp be accepte; by tie United States
20 the mails which it receives from the German
c:hce.
ARTIcIE T. The single rate Of portage On the
direct correspondence exchanged between Zee two
"A .nfHkstratlonS shall be follows,
lst- On letters from the United States a
direct line Of steamers to Hamburg and Bremen.
C nditioned that the rate in such shall
not exceed Eve cents FIR single letter and
ten cents por kilogram for other correspondence
ten GEMS
u On I-t,ers from the North German Union |
= ia said direct line, Subject TO same condirion)
four silber eroschen-
3D. On letters from TIE United States via
England, fifteen cents
4th- On letters from the North German Union
via England. six silber gr,~chen-
5th. OF the international letter Postage via
England, the ocean single letter rate shall not
Kceed eight Cents. shall. the English and
'selgian single letter transit rates exceed one
,ent each.
eth II is further agreed. that whenever any
ther regular line Of stem c n,municst'n. ac
-ptable u the two ctflces, NAV Ire employed
:irsctly between any IT Of the United States
.a1 any port of the north Of kurspe Mt such
-sfes that the entire cost OF transportation be-
ween the two frontiers snail exceed for
ach single letter rae five cents and for each
telegram Of other correspondence ten cents. in
hat case the international sInge Ia e Of letter
'cstAge by such Line shall be reduced to ten
elts.
9Th. On all other correspondence mentioned
u paragraph TWO Of The first article. the
hall be, fjr the mails despatched, TINT which
ne despstching flee shtiI ad t. adapted Ia the
,,rvenience and HABITS Of its Interior admnistra
ION. But each Office shall give rosic- {, the
ther Of the rate it adopts, and OF any subsequent
hsnge thereof.
AR IcLE W. I'll" prepayment of portage on
rjinary iette-s hail be cpti mi. suije;r t.
he conditions in Article WI nientiun-t: but
n registered letters. and oil c,ier CORE
porience mentioned in paragraph two Of the
-st article, it shall be obligatory
ARTIcLE VII If however. TIE r'stage on auv
"rTespondencs shall lie p'epaid insufiioiebfy, l,
hall nevertheless he forwarded {" its .iesti,ia |
i1r but charged with the d. fri-,if . stage
Irop the delivery of any uHDaid ar
az. letter, Of any ot7r iE>.if..centiy pad c'i
speudence, there shall lie levied ib- In te
lares a fine E.t exceeding five oe',t-. and III The
oTth German Uni,= an additional charge NOT ex
;eoiRg rwo siber grosC!en- This hue. or add
.ual charge rs well as the deficient p1-'sgC nn
/ other CO respond than letters. shall II ,
ter into the accounts between th- two otficrs
n shall be retained to the use of TIE collecting
lice
AkTIcIE VIII. The correspondence fnrniioned
paragraph t~0 ofihe first astItl- -haii lie DEE
;ched under regulations e. lie ss'abii-Let 10y tic ii
spatchiDs Office, tut aiways Including the fol- A
wing @.
FIRST No Jacket shall contain anything which I,
al he elusei against Inspection, NOT any VII ten
IT. :l.triCsftOn whatever. except TO siat- from =,
ron and VI hon, slts packet il sent. AMI the Il
lnlb-r and prize placed Ipon esch pattern OF
rnle Ger hsTSIse-
Second. No packet may exceed two feet ia length,
one fo,,; u any ofiie. di.l,E n
Thifd- Ne rher Office ssai. be hound 20 deliver
s-t.cle tee ii1 pOTtatioIi of Nci. HAY lie ptn
.iteti by tie law lioiIs Of tie cO1atry C.
lie -tiisaricn-
fourth 70 lors any customs ruty may he
,rgeahle Unsany articles n-need the Es:,iis.
n tu;y may De Ie.i-l icI IN. u, oi tie Gus
{ IL farther agreed, tia; exr.pt sina'! Local Y,
r.er' 5 charge, $50 loug ss il eEss- exisi il tie
al districts OF No, ih GernsLy no ch rye what ri
r. ettefwi<e than l. her els. x,,e is lrGsId g. -
tod srfr and her