The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-03-04
sAnrrcIs II.

The post offices of New York, Boston
and San Francisco shall be the United
States Offices of exchange, and Aux
land and Wellington the Offices OF ex-
| hange of the colony of New Zealand,
rangement.
The single rate of international let
| ter postage shall be twelve cents in the
| Unitnd States, and sixpence in New
/ Zealand, on each letter weighing half
an ounce or less, and an additional
rate of twelve cents (six pence) for
i each ad ditional 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
he Office of mailing in either country.
Letters unpaid or prepaid less than one
full rate of postage shall not be for
warded, but insuficiently paid letters
on which single rate or more has
been prepaid shall be forwarded, and
charged with the deficient postage to
be collected and retained by the Post
Department of the country of destina-
lin either country from the other, ehaii
he delivered free of all charge what
ever.
The United States post Office shall
levy and collect to its own use, on
newspapers addressed to or received
| from New Zealand, a postage charge
| of two cents and on all other articles
| of printed matter addressed to or re-
ceived from New Zealand, q postage
! charge of four cents per each weight
| OF four ounces or fraction of four
ounces.
Tne post c cffice of New Zealand shall
levy and collect to its own use, on
1 newspapers and others articles of
printed matter, addressed to or re-
ceived from the United States, the reg
nlar rates of domestic postage charges
.ble thereon by the laws and regula-
tions of the colony of New Zealand.
Newspapers and all other kinds of
printed N after are to be subject to the
laws and regulations of each country
respectively, in regard to their liability
to be rated with letter-pOstage, when
containing written matter, or for any
other cause specified in said laws and
regulations, as well as in regard 10
their liability to custom duty under
the revenue laws.
ARTICLE w.
The United States Office engage to
transmit through the United States, as
well as the conveyance by United
States mail packets, of the correspon-
dence in closed mails which the New
Zealeand post Office may desire to trans.
NIT via the United States to British
Columbia, the British North American
Provinces, the West Indies, Mexico,
Central aud South American, and at
!, the following rates of United States
transit.postage, viz:
sL -sal
transit of closed malls from New Zpa-
land for British Columbia or other
British North American Provinces,
Mexico, Central and South America, !,
or the West India islands, when trans
mitted by sea, .wenty five cents per
ounce for letter mails, and twenty cents
per pound for all kinds of printed
3 matter.
The New Zealand post Office shall
E render an account 10 the United States
3 post Office, upon letssr-b bills to accom-
] pany each mail, of the weight of the
: letters, and also of the printed matter
r contained in such closed mails for
: warded to the United States for trans
: mission to either of the above-named
: countries and colonies !; and the &C.
counts arising between the two Offices
3 on this class of correspondence shall
f be stated, adjusted and settled quar-
j terly, and the amounts of the United
States charges found due on such
closed mails sh all be promptly paid
over to the United States post office,
in such manner as the Postmaster Gem
eral of the United States shall pre-
scribe.
ARrrcLE Y.
,, Prepaid letters from foreign coun-
tries received in and forwarded from
the United States to New Zealand, shall
be delivered in said colony free of all
charges whatsoever, and letters re-
ceived in New Zealand from the United
States addressed to New South Wales,
or Australia, will be forwarded to des-
tination, subject to the same conditions
az are applicable to correspondence
1 originating In New Zealand and adj
. dressed to those countries.
ARrIcLE VI.
Q In the event of any of the Austria
! lian colonies not agreeing with New
8 Zealeand to contribute to the mainten-
ance OF line of mail packets plying be-
tween. New Zealand and the United
States of America, and subsidized by
New Zsaland,7 the New Zealand post
Office may require the United States
post Office not TO forward by such sub
sidized packets any mails, letters, new
pspers, or other articles addressed 60
such COLONY, and the New Zealand post
Office may refuse to transmit CO their
destination all mails, letters, newspa-
pers or other printed matter addressed
! to such solony, and received In New
Zealand from the q zited States by such
Subsidized packets, and may refuse to
, forward TO their destination by such
} subsidized packets, an mails, letters,
} newspapers, or other printed matter
| receiyed In New Zea1and from anch