The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-08-31
CONVENTION
FOR THE REGULATION OF TIE POSTAL INTER
COURSE BETWEEN THE UNiED STATES OF
AMERICA AND KINGDOM DENMARK

The Post Department Of the Unii States of America
and the Danish Post Department hive agreed upon EN-
poying the steamers IN regular sevice between their
| territories well a. the steamer engag between
Hamburg and Breren on the one side and Anne rican
ports on the other in order to establish an immediate
exchange of mails and have for tina purpose nted
| to the following articles;
ART /. Thee shall be immediate exchange of cor.
respondence between the United STATES of America nd
Denmark by means of the said steamers and this cor.
respondenc shall embrace letters newspapers, book
| packets pints of all kinds, comprising maps plans
engravins, drawings, photographs thographs and ali
other lille productions of mechanical sheets
music &c. and patterns or samples of merchandise and
such correspondence may be exchanged whether orgi
mating either of the said countries or originating in
countries to which these may respectively as in
| termediaries.
ART q The exchange of correspondence shall take
place between the to be hereafter designated
by the two post departments but either of the two off
ces so designated may at any time be discontinued and
others established by mutual consent
ART. g. The United States office shall make its own
arrangements for the dispatch of its mails to Denmark
and in like manner the Office of Denmark shall make its
own arrangements for the dispatch of its mails
United States The mails shall be reciprocay forward
ed by the regular routes of communication hreinbefoe
mentioned, and each Office SHALL at its cost, pay
the expense of the intermediate transportation sea and
terrora of the mails which it dispatches tohe other
1t is also agreed that the COST either in whoW in part
of the international and territorial transit of the
closed mails exchanged in both directions between the
respective frontiers SHALL upon application o. either Of
fee be first betrayed by that of the two Offices which
shall have obtained from the intermediates the most
favorable pecuniary for such conveyance ard
amount so advanced by for and aecouBt OF the
other shall be promptly re imbursed,
ART 4. The postage ordinary letters sen, from the
United states to Denmark, or from Denmak to the
United States, shall be respectively twelve III SHILLING
rigsmon, or seven ~ cents for single Letter. The
weight of single letter shall not exceed hftea gram
For every letter exceeding fifteen gramur there
shall be paid single rate of postage for every addition
al fifteen grammes fraction of fifteen gramm6. The
weight stated by the dispatching Office shall aays be
accepted except in cases of manifest error Tn maxi
mum weight of letters shall be two hundred al fifty
(250) grammes.
ART 8 The prepayment ofpostage on ordinar,i tiers
shall be optional. If they shall be forwarded upard,
nsuffcienty paid, they shall, in the first ase, be
charged besides the usual postage with an additional
postage Of respectively four (4 cents, six (6skng
rigsmont and in TIE last case besides the decn post
age, with similar additional postage
ART 6. On all other correspondence in the rt article
mentioned the rates shall be, for the mails satched
that which the dispatchng Office shall adopt dapted
to the convenience and habits of its interior aminis
tration. But each office shall give notice to the other
of the rate adopts and of any subsequent chang there
Of These articles shall be forwarded under regulations
OF the dspaching postofice but always including the
following
l. The postage shall be prepaid If, howeer, the
postage on the correspondence mentioned in h article
should not be wholly prepaid, the said correspondence
shall still be forwarded to the place of desnaton but
it shall. in that case, beside the deficient potage, be
charged with an additional postage not exceeding four
az cents in the United States, and six 10y skiing rigs
mont in Denmark.
2. No packet shall contain anything which shall be
closed against inspection any written conmunica
ton whatever except to state from whom ando whom
the packet Is SENT and the number and priie placed
upon each pattern or sample of merchandise.
8. No packet may exceed two feet in Length one
foot in any other dimension.
4. 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.
B. The customs duties that may be chargeabe i'll each
OF the Two countries may be levied for the use OF the
customs.
ART. 7. ANY correspondence mentioned il Article l
may be registered, and the postage chargeabe such
correspondence shall always be prepaid. Registered
correspondence shall in addition to the postage be sub
ject to an international registration fee exceeding
ten tlO) cents in the United States and egh (8) skill
ling rgSmont in Denmark and this fee shall always he
prepaid Each Office is at liberty to reduce this fee for
the mails it dispatches Each department shall use its
best exertons for the safe delivery Of registered
pondence but is not responsible pecunary for the loss
of any such correspondence.
ART. s. 1t is further agreed that no charge of any
kind, or on any account otherwise than 10 herein