New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-04

| postmaster General.
Signed at the Hague, on the fifteenth OF
| June, 1870. j. P. HOFSTEDE,
| Chief Director of Posts.
POSTAL CONVENTION between the
| United States of America and the Colonial
Government of New Zealand. Signed at
Washington, the fifth of October, 1870,
and at Wellington, New Zealand, the
third of August, 1870, and approved by
| the President of the United States, Octo-
| Der ), 1870. a,e
The undersigned, being thereunto duly
| authorized by their respective govern
| ments, have agreed upon the following arti-
| cles establishing and regulating the ex-
| change of correspondence between the
| United States OF America and the colony of
| New Zealand: u
ARTICLE I. There shall be an exchange of
| correspondence between the United States
| of America and New Zealand, by means of
| the direct line of colonial mail packets ply
| ing between San Francisco and said colony,
| as well as by such other means of di-
| rect mail steamship transportation
| between the United States and
New Zealand as shall hereafter
be established, with the approval of the
respective Post Departments of the two
| countries, comprising letters, newspapers
ating in either country, and addressed to
and deliverable in the other country, as
well as correspondence in closed mails orig
mating in New Zealand and destined for
foreign countries by way OF the United
States.
ARTICLE ii. The postoffices of New York,
Boston and San Francisco shall be the
United States offices OF exchange, and AUX
land and Wellington the offices of exchange
of the0lony of New Zealand, for all mails
transmitted under this arrangement.
ARTICLE III. No accounts shall be kept
between the Post Departments of the two
countries upon. the international CORES
pondence, written or printed. exchanged
between them, but each country shall re-
tain to its own use the hostages which it col
lects.~
The single rate of international letter
postage shall be twelve cents in the United
States and six pence in New Zealand, ON
each letter weighing half an ounce or less,
and an additional rate of twelve cents (six
pence) for each additional weight of half an
ounce or fraction thereof, which shall, in
all cases, be prepaid at least one single rate,
by means of postage stamps, at the office
OF the mailing in either country. Letters
unpaid or prepaid less than one full rate of
postage shall not be forwarded, but INSULT
GENTLY paid ietters onNwhich single rate
or more has been prepaid shall be forward
ed, charged with the deficient postage, to
be collected and retained by the Post De-
partment of the country of destination.
Letters fully prepaid, received in either
country from the other, shall be delivered
free of all charge whatsoever.
The United States postotice shall levy
and collect to its own use, on newspapers
addressed TO or received from New Zealand,
postage charge of two cents; and on all
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to or received from New Zealand, a postage
charge OF four centSper each weight of four
ounces or fraction of four ounces.
The postotfice of New Zealand shall levy
and collect to its own use, on newspapers
and other. articles of printed matter adj
dressed to or received from the United
States, the regular rates of domestic post
age chargeable thereon by the laws and
regulations of the colony of New Zealand.
Newspapers and all other kinds of printed
matter are to be subject to the laws and
regulations of each country respectively, in
regard to their liability to be rated with let
ter postage, when containing written mat
ter, or for any other cause specified in said
laws and regulations, as well as in regard
to their liabnlIty to customs duty under the
revenue laws.
ARTICLE " The United States office en-
cages TO grant the transit through the
United States, as well as the conveyance by
United States mail packets, of the cor
respondence in closed mails which the New
Zealand postOffice may desire to transmit
via the United States to British Columbia,
the British North American provinces, the
West Indies, Mexico, Central and South
America, and at the following rates of
United States transit postage, viz:
For the United States territorial transit
of closed mails from New Zealand for Mex
leo, British Columbia, Canada or other
British North American provinces, when
transmitted entirely by land routes, SIX
cents per ounce for letter mails and sixteen
cents per pound for all kinds of printed
matter.
For the United States territorial and sea
transit of closed mails from New Zealand
for British Columbia or other British North
American provinces Mexico Central and
South America or the West India Islands,
when transmitted from the United States
by sea-. twenty-five cents per ounce for
letter mails, and twenty cents per pound
for all kinds of printed matter.
b. The New Zealand postotfice shall render
an account TO the United States postotfice,
upon letter bills to accompany each 1nail
OF the weight of the letters and also OF the
printed matter contained in such closed
mails forwarded to the United States for
transmission to either of the above named
countries and colonies; and the accounts
arising between the two offices on this class
of correspondence shall be stated, adjusted
and settled quarterly, and the amounts OF
the United States transit charges founddue
on such closed mails shall be promptly paid
over by the New Zealand postofice to the
United States postoffice, in such manner as
the Postmaster General of the United States
shall prescribe.
ARTICLE V. Prepaid letters from foreign /
countries received in and forwarded from
the United States to New Zealand shall be |
delivered in said colony free of all charges
whatsoever, and letters received in New
Zealand from the United States addressed
to New South Wales or Australia; will be
forwarded to destination, subject to the
same conditions as are applicable to CORE
spondence originating in New Zealand and
addressed to those countries.
ARTICLE VI. In the event of any OF. the
Australian colonies not agreeing with New