New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-10

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The maximum weight of letters shall be
two hundred and fifty grammes.
ARTICLE V.
The prepayment of postage on ordinary
letters shall be optional. If they shall be
| forwarded unpaid, or insutfcently paid,
| they shall. in the first case, be charged, be
sides the usual postage, with an additional
! postage of respectively four cents, or six
| SHILLING rigsmont, and in the last case, be
sides the deficient postage, with similar adj
diti0nai postage.
ARTICLE VI.
! On all other correspondence in the first
| article mentioned, the rates shall be, for the
mails dispatched, that which the dispatch
ing office shall adopt adapted to the con-
venience and habits Of its interior admins
tration. But each Office shall give notice to
| the other Of the rate it adopts, and of any
subsequent change thereof, These articles
| shall be forwarded under regulations OF the
dispatching postoffice, but always including
| the following
L. The postage shall be prepaid. IF, how
ever, the postage on the correspondence
| mentioned in this article should not be-
wholly prepaid, the said correspondence shall
| still be forwarded to the place of destina
| ton; but it shall, in that case, beside the
deficient postage, be charged with an adj
ditional postage, not exceeding four cents
| in the United States, and six shilling rigs
mont in Denmark
! 9 No packet shall contain anything which
! shall be closed against inspection, nor any
written communication whatever, except to
| state from whom and to whom the packet
| is sent, and the number and price placed
upon each pattern or sample of merchan-
! disc.
g. No packet may exceed two feet in
length, or one foot in any other dimension
a. Neither office shall be bound to deliver
any article the importation of which may
be prohibited by the laws or regulations OF
the country Of destination.
| 5. The customs duties that may be charge
| able in each of the two countries may be
| levied for the use of the customs.
| ARTICLE VII.
| Any correspondence mentioned in article
| one may be registered, and the postage
| chargeable on such correspondence shall
| always be prepaid. Registered CORE
! spOndence SHALL in addition to the postage,
| be subject to an international registration
| fee not exceeding ten cents in the United
| States and eight shilling rigsmont in Den
mark, and this fee shall always be epaid.
Each Office is at liberty to reduce this fee for
| the mails it dispatches. Each department
| shall use its best exertions for the safe de-
| livery of registered correspondence, but is
not responsible pecuniarily for the loss Of
any such correspondence.
ARTICLE VIII
1t is further agreed that no charge of any
kind, or on any account, otherwise than is
herein expressly provided. shall be levied
or collected in the country of destination
on the letters or other correspondence ex-
changed.
ARTICLE TX.
As to the correspondence originating in
one country and destined for the other no
account shall take place, and thus the post
Office of the United States shall retain the
whole amount of postage collected in the
United States upon international paid cor
respondenCe forwarded to Denmark, and
upon international unpaid or insufficienty
paid correspondence received from Den
mark: and in like manner the Danish post
office shall retain the whole amount Of post
age collected in Denmark upon interna-
tional paid correspondence forwarded to the
United States, and upon international uu-
paid or insutfcently paid correspondence
received from the United States.
However each of the two depaI tments
shall be at liberty to claim accounts to be
settled when 1t appears that in one country
for one year there is levied twenty per cent
more than in the other. If an account is
claimed, it shall be regulated ON the follow
ing basis:
FROM the total amount OF hostages anu
register tees collected by each office on let
tiers, added to the total amount OF prepaid
hostages and register fees on other cores
p0ndeuce which it dispatches the dispatch
Jag office shall deduct the amount required
tor the conveyance or the mails between
the two countries. and the amount OF the
two net sums shall be equally divided be-
tween the two offices.
The deficient and additional pos stages
mentioned in article six shall not be in
cluded in the account between the two
Offices. but. unshared, shall belong to the
Office by which thew are collected.
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The two postdepartments shall establish,
by agreement, and IL comic rnlty WITH the
arrangements IN force at the time, the con
dltions upon which the two offices may re
specuvely exchange IN open malis the cor
respondence originating in or destined to
other foreign countries to which they may
recIprOcaily serve as Intermediates 1t is
always understood, however, that such cor
respondence shall only be charged with the
Ameucan-Danlsh rate, augmented by the
postage due to foreign countries, or for
other exterior service
1t IS agreed that the account OF this CORE
spondence shall, as to the international
hostages ehargeable on the same, be regu-
lated on the basis mentioned IN the proceed.
ing artlcle, put that the amount OF the eX-
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