The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-22

LAWS OF TaE UNITED STATES
Passed at the First Session of tie Forty
FIRST Congress-.

Convention between the General Postonice Of Il
Usiied States of America and the General Post
osice of the Netherlands
Tho Undersigned, being thereunfo duly author
lied by their respective Governments, hav
s,reed upon the following Articles for the ane
iorAtion Of the postal service between the Unite
States of America and the Kingdom of the Meth
erlAnds.
ARTICLE I. There shall be exchange Of CORE
spondence between the United States of Americ'
and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by means o
their respective post De. artments, and this Cor
respondence shall embrace:
/. Letters ordinary and registered
Id Newspapers, book packets, prints Of al
kinde, (comprisirg maps, plans, engravings
<ssawings, photographs. Autographs, and all Other
Ike production, OF mechanical processes, sheet.
Of music, &c y and patterns or samples Of mer
chandiss, including grains and seeds.
And such correspondence may be exchanged,
whether originating in either Of said countries
and destined for the other, or originating in or
destined for foreign countries to which these may
respectively serve Intermediates.
ARIlcLE II. The Offices for exchange of mails
shall be, on the part of the United States:
l. New York.
2 Boston.
On the part Of the Netherlands:
The travelling Office Moerdyk.
Zach Post Department may at any time, after
notice to the other, discontinue either of the OFF,
ces Of exchange on its side, always leaving one
osice aud the two Offices by agreement may at
ARTICLE I'll The principle is agreed, that each
once shall make its own arrangements fF the
dispatch Of its mails to the other Office by regular
lines Of communication, and shall at its own cost
pay the expense of such intermediate transporta-
tion. 1t Is also agreed that the cost Of interna-
tionAl ocean and territorial transit of the closed
mails between the frontiers of the two Countries
shall DO first betrayed by that one Of the two de-
Intarnsdiaries the must favorable pecuniary
terms for such conveyance,
and any amount 90 advanced by one for account Of
the other shall be promptly reimbursed.
Article ~. The standard weight for the sim
gle rate Of international postage, and rule Of pro-
gressiun, shall be-
LIST, For letters, Is grammes.
Il For all other correspondence mentioned in
paragraph two Of the first article that which the
dsspatching ofice shall adopt for the mails which
it dispatches to the other, adapted to the con-
venience and habits of the interior administra-
tioa. But each ONCE shall give notice to the
other OF the standard weight it adopts, and of
any subsequent change thereof.
The rule Of progression shall always be an adj
d:tiOnal single rate for each aiditi nal standard
weight or fraction thereof. The weight stated
by the despatching Office shall always be accepted
except in case Of manifest mistake
ARTICLE v. The single rate Of postage on the
direct correspondence exchanged between the two
administrations, subject to the reserve men
ts0ned in Article VIII shall be rs follows:
On letters from the United St.tes 15cents. U s.
3 On letters from the Netherlands, 40 cents
[Duteh)
ID. On all other correspondents mentioned
in paragraph two of the first article, the rate
shall be- FIR the mails despatched, that which
tine despatching Office shall adopt, adapted to the
convenience and habits Of its interior admin istra
sion- But each ONCE shall give notice to the
other Of the rate it adopts and OF any subsequent
change thereof
eonmunication acceptable to the two Offices may
10 employed directly between any port of the
Caitod States and any port OF the north Of Eu-
rupe ut such rates that the entire cost Of trans
essa for each single letter rate cents 90. Sd
and for each kiiogram Of other correspondence 10
cents ~. y in that it is agreed that the in
ternational single letter rate Of postage by snch
United States and 25 cents Dutch from the |
Nesherl&nds- And the two Offices shall by COM
mon accord ix the time when this reduction shall 1
take effect
ordiaary letters shall be optional, subject to
the conditions in Article VIII, mentioned; but
% registered letters, and On all other CORE
epcadence mentioned in paragraph two Of the
6rse article, It shall be obligatory.
Article VIII II however. the postage on any
shall be prepaid insufIicientiy, IL
hall nevertheless be forwarded to its destina-
aioa, charged with the deficient postage adding
faH sno1nts. instead Of fractions, Of ore cent
10. a-) or i've cents Dutch
4
- letter, o. Of any other insuhciently paid cor
dependence, there shall be levied in the United
Beaaes . fine not exceeding Eve cents, 20. 4 \
I'D in tie Netherlands not exceeding Is cents
IDutch). This fine. and also the deficient
preage % al other correspondence than letters,
lhsn net enter into accounts between the two
sDees bat shall b retained to the use Of the col
lsetlng o0ce. II
Asmn. TX Registered correspondence shall.
in addition to the postage be subject to . regis
lraSoa fse not exceeding ten cents (U. g. in the
Baited States, and not exceeding 8 cents
'Datch) = the Netheriands and this fec shall
Asays b. Rrspaid-
Isesred - we'll international correspondence -
hat ssixinafine In or destined fr other countries
10 which these two administrations may respect
vsly serve ~ Intermediates in either direction
fr Tie transmissson Of such registered articles
.oantriss TO which il may thus serve ., inferno j
liaFy.
AH1sclR XI. Accounts between the two osf>es Z
hill - regulated on the following baeis: Frum
he toesl amount Of postazes and register fees col
scesA b each once Letters, added tn the total .
noant q prepaid portage and reg ster f-es On I
der eoerespo1dence which il dispatches, the de-
patching oGlee shall deduct the amount required,
the agreed rate, for the cost Of the intermediate
faasit shsreof between the twoffontiers, and the
nnant ofthe two net sums shall be divided be- c
xesa TIE tv0 OG3cea in the proportion Of three n
fths Is Sths) to the United States Office and two
fths r. sths) to the Office Of the Netherlands. d
AnalcLI XII. The correspondence mentioned
etched under regulations to be estabished by the c
s-pstching ONCE. hut always including the fol-
,1inG - g
Pirsf. No packet shall contain anything which Il
,al be closed against inspection. any written
'0aunication whatever, except to state from
hm and TO whom the packet is sent. and the n
lDb-r and price placed upon each pattern or p
1Pae ofmerrhandse. q