The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-23

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tsRAL.l FREDERIC,
Prince Royal.
Countersigned o. d. RoRsESoRN-LEHS. ..
DETAILED REGULATIONS.
ARRANGED BETWEEN
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND THE PosT-OFFICE DEPARTMENT
OF DENMARK, FOR THE EXECUTION
AT WASHINGTON THE lST DAY OF
DECEMBER, 1871, AND AT COPENHAGEN
THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1877.
ARTICLE l.
The offices for the exchange of the mails shall
be- On the part of the United States, az New
York; ~ Chicago. On the part of Denmark:
q Copenhagen; (2) the travelling office between
Korsoer and Kiel
The exchange offices of New York and Chicago
shall make up closed mails for the exchange
offices OF u Copenhagen, (2 the travelling office
between Korsoer and Kel; and these Danish
exchange offices shall make up closed mails for
New York and Chicago.
ARTIcLE2.
Each mail exchanged between the two admin
trations shall be accompanied with a letter bill,
showing the hostages, &C., accruing to each office
upon the different kinds of correspondence. The
form of this letter-bill shall follow the models
be numbered by the dispatching office during
each calendar year.
The receiving office shall acknowledge its re-
ceipt by The next dispatch.
ARTICLE 8.
The exchange offices shall divide the cores
pondence which they dispatch into suitable
number of separate packages, according to the
letter-bill. Each of these packages shall bear
the proper etiquette and number corresponding
to the letter-Dili
AsTICLE 4.
When more than single rate is chargeable
lntt nth or inla fhn ,har Of
rates to which it is subject shall be indicated by
the dispatchng Office, by figure in the upper
left corner of the address.
ARTICLE ).
Registered correspondence shall be described
in regiser-list, following the models O and d,
hereto annexed.
All registered letters shall be enyeloped toge-
Their in strong paper, securely fastened, and the
package inscribed with the words Registered"
or "RecOnmdrderet" and placed in the mail
The blank in the letter bill for expressing the
number OF registered articles shall be filled by
letters and figures expressing the number,
In ease no registered articles are sent, the pro-
per blank Of the letter-bill shall be filed with the
word ''HihiP or "Rtk''
ARTloLB6
The registered letters dispatched shall be ac-
knowledged Immediately by the receiving office.
If the yerfication by the receiving Office shall
disclose an error of any kind in the ragisterlist,
it shall be also by the first mail notified to the
dispatching office.
ARTICLE 7.
All letters exchanged between the two offices
shall indicate, by stamp or writing thereon. the
office of origin and the unpaid letters so exchan-
ged shall also be stamped with the name of the
dispat ching office OF exchange.
Corrssponaeln3es fuzzy paid to destination shall
and "Franko," in Denmark.
Registered articles shall be stamped REGIS
tered" in the United States, and "Recomn,aqlde-
ret" in Denmark Correspondence insufticiently
The United States, and "UtitST@kkIig ytrankeret,"
in Denmark, and the amount of the deficient
postage expressed in figures on the face.
Correspondence dispatched by the direct line
between the respective countries shall be STAN
ped 'Direct 8eTUice,'' or 'SeT0ice direct"
When dispatched pia Germany it shall be stam-
ped to indicate German transit.
AaTIeLR 8,
The two post departments are to mutually furnish
each other with lists stating the foreign countries
to which the foreign pos a5e, and the amounts
thereof inust be absolutely prepaid, or can be
left unpaid; and until such lists are furnished,
II ither country is to mail to the other any cor
respondence for foreign countries in transit
through the country to which the mail Is sent.
Such lists shall also indicate the foreign eoun-
tries with which registered correspondence may
be exchanged in the open mails between the re-
spectlye offices and the conditions thereof.
90 . ARTICLE g We.
The respective exchange Offices shall mark, in
Dress Of prepaid letters sent for transit in the
open mail, the amount OF the postage due for ex
terror service to the country through which the
same are forwarded, and in the same manner
but in black ink, shall mark the amount due fol
postage to the forwarding office upon the unpaid
letters SO sent in transit,
ARTIeLE 10.
l4atters originating in or destined fol-
foreign countries, sent in the open, mails
Denmark, and which are insufficiently paid
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and NJ
account taken between the tive administration
correspondence originating in foreign countries
and addressed to the United States or to Denmark
respectively, on which the foreign and interna
tional postage charges are fully prepaid, shall
when forwarded through the mails of eithe
country to the other, be delivered in the countr,
| of destination free of charge.
| ARTIGLEn.
The letters and all registered articles mutual,
returned as not deliverable shall be aceoJgpanie,
| by statement exhibiting the number of ordiua
/ ny letters and the number and addresses of tn
registered articles so returned, and the aggregat
amount reclaimed thereon from the dispatchn
/ Office, which statement shall be verified and &C
knnwledged as early as practicable.
| The expense of transit of unpaid correspon
/ dence which has been transmitted by eithe
/ administration in elaoed mails, and which shal
be returned to the dispatching office as not deli,
cradle, shall be deducted from the origina
of the amount by the office claiming the redut
ton. .e
No charge shall be made by either administra
tion for the transit OF correspondence returne
as NOT deliverable.
ARTICLE IL.
All correspondence wrongly addressed or mi
sent shall be returned without DELAY by the II
ceiving Office to the exchange office which di
patched it. The receiving office shall, also co
rect accordingly. in the column of verificatioi
tn original entries of the letter-biil relating
such correspondence, The articles of lii
nature addressed to persons who have change
their residence shall be mutually Forwarded
charged with the rate that would have been pal
at the first destination, or returned for IL
amount, If any, originally charged against tt
receiving office,
~ ARTICLE 10. ..... .s.
The dispatching exchange office shall state c
the letter-bils to the intermediate exchange of
ees the exact number of single rates of letters
weight, ifrequired, and the total weight of Il
other correspondence, which shall be dispatch'