The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-02-22
tOFFICIAL-l
LAWS OF TIE UNITED STATES
Passed at the First Session of the Forty
FIRST Congress.
[OFFIcIALI


AErICIx 1. There shall be an exchange Of cor
rs-pondence between the United States Of Amer
ia and the North German Union, b. means o
their respective post departments; and this Cor.
respondsnce shall embrace
Ist- Letters ordinary and registered
ID Newspapers, book packets, prints of al
iincs comprising maps plans. engravings
drawings, photographs. iiIhosrsphs aud all other
like PRODUCTIONS OF mechanical processes, sheet:
II ransic, &c y and patterns or samples Of mer
cnAndlse, including grains and seeds
And such correspondence may be exchanged;
whether originating in either OF SAID countries
ssi destined for the other. originating IN oT
d-,tined for foreign countries to which these ma,
respectively serve "a Intermediates
sKrIcLk III. The Offices for ;ue exchase Of
ca on the pSrt OF the United States
lst- New York
-. Boston.
81 HUrtlsni.
5th- Chiclso-
% On The part Of the North German Union:
lst. Aachen, tAlx Ia Chapelle.)
81 Bremen.
I'll HIubuTg.
The two post departments may at any time dis
,-ratinue either Of said Offices Of exchange, OF
establish others BY mutual consent
ARTICLE Ill. Each Office shall make its own
arrangements for the despatch OF its mails To- the
cthsr Office by regular Inns of communication
and should AZ its own cost pay the expense OF
such intermediate traHspOrtati0n-
The two Offices. however, mutually agree. that
II making contracts for the despatch Of mails
from American ports, or from European ports,
rno-s steamers AMI lines should always be EN-
II5yei. far consistent with the rates Of post
ago. By which the mails de- patched shall earliest
arrive at their destination; aud When the speed
i Substantially the same that the most favorable
I,-egnisry conditions should lie preferred. 1t is
also agreed that the cost of international ocean
and territlrial transit # the closed mails between
the respective frontiers shall be first betrayed by
that Of the two departments which shall have
obtained from the Intermediates the most favor
able pecuniary terms for such conveyance; and
snS amount 50 advanced BY one for account of the
ether shall be promptly reimbursed
ARTICLE " The standard weight for the sin
Gle rate eff international Postage, and rule Of Pro-
,r-ssion. shall be-
LIST. For letters. 10 grammes-
- For all other correspondence mentioned in
paragraph two of the irst article. that which the
de-patehing office shall adopt FIR the mails which
IL dispatches TO the other, adapted To the con-
veEielcs and habits If its interior aiminstra-
ton Bat each office shall give notice To the
"ther CT the standard weight it adopts, and Of
any subsequent change thereof
The rule ef progression shall always be an adj
weight or fraction thereof. The weight stated
by the despatching office shall always be accepted,
except in case of manifest mistake
lis, however. understood that long as the
German Office eu,pioys the ioh its standard for
the single weight OF letters which it dispatches,
II shall also be accepted by the United States
'ftce the equivalent Of Is grammes, in respect
TO the mails which it receives from the German |
Ofice.
AaIIcLEy The single late of postage on the |
direct correspondence exchanged between the two |
I, administrations shall be : follows,
LIST. On letters from the United States via /
direct line Of steamers 10 Hamburg and Bremen,
r.rditioned that the rate in such cases shall !
1z--
ten cents por kilogram for other eorrespondeLce,)
Ten GEMS
II On letters from the North German Union
via said direct line, subject to same condition)
IGur silher grcscheu-
Sd On letters from the United States via
n iani fifteen cents
eth. On letters from the North German Union
VIA England, six SLIDER groschen-
9Th 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. II is further agreed, that whenever any
ltheT regular line Of steam Communication, &C
-epIsble 70 the two Offices. may be employed |
Iilscriy between any part of the United States
md asy pert If the north Of Europe at such
7,tes that the entire cost of transportation be
Se-n the two frontiers snail not exceed for
.arh single letter rate five cents, and fer each
.iiogrtn OF other correspondence ten cents, in
hat Case the international single rate Of letter
-nt,.
.th- On ali other correspondence mentioned
n paragraph TWO Of the first article, the rate
mali BE-, for the mails dispatched, that which
he Lespstching flee shall adopt. adapted to the
,invenlence and habits of its interior admin istrs
ion But each Office shall give notice to the
rher Of the rate il adopts, and oi any subsequent
LanCe thereof u
AR IcLz VI. Thu prepayment of postage on :
primary letters shall be optional, subject to
he conditions in Article VII, mentioned; but
Ia registered letters, and On all other core
pontence mentioned IN paragraph two OF the
lr-t article, il shall be obligatory.
AEIIcLE VII. If. however, the postage on any
shall be prepaid insufficiently, il
hall nevertheless be forwarded to its testIug- !
ion, hut charged with the deficien: postage
Upon the delivery of any unpaid or insUficiently
aid letter ur of any other insuciently paid cor
.spoudeuce, the-e shall lie levied in the United
tstes a line not exceeding tve cents, and in the |
orth German Uni11 an additional charge not ex-
ee!ina, ii Der grusci.en. This hue, or addi-
,DsI charge well as the deficient postage on
4 other CO respond, nee than letters, shall not
inter- into the accounts between the two Offices. :
ct shat be retained 10 the use Of tie collecting
lCe
AkTIcfE VIII The correspondence mentioned
paragraph t<o otthe inst article shall be des-
.;chet I'm. er regulations 70 be established by the
'<patcaing Office, hut always including the fol A
wing q
FIRST No packet shall contain anything which :
hii tt titS7'i -ttii@t GttitiA- AA ANY
whatever. except to state from a
hon and whom the packet is sent. and the s.
lumber and prize placed rTUn each pattern or
rnple ofIieT htutIse-
Second % packet may exceed two feet in length,
one f,Ot IN amy cfEer dIHIcu~I n.
Third Neither office shall be bound to deliver
= Article the Importation ut which may lie pro
bitej By the laws or regulations Of the country C
Ge>tiBaIiDn.
Fourth 20 long - any customs duty nay be
srg-aI.Ie Cnsany Articles exchanged IL the mails