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

The Post Department of the United States OF
America and the Danish Post Department having
agreed upon employing the steamers in regular
service between their territories, as well as the
steamers engaged between Hamburg and Bre.
men on the one side, and American ports on the
other, in order to establish an immediate ex-
change of mails, and have, for that purpose, con-
santed to the following articles
" ARTICLE /.
There shall be an immediate exchange of cor
respondence between the United States of Amer
lea and Denmark by means of the said steam
ers, and this correspondence shall embrace let
tiers, newspapers, book packets, prints of all
kinds, Comprising maps, plans, engravings,
drawings, Photographs, Autographs, and all 9TH
er like productions of mechanical processes,
sheets Of music, &e.,l and patterns or samples
of merchandise and such correspondence may
be exchanged, whether originating in either of
the said countries, originating in countries to
which these may respectively serve as interme-
diaries.
ARTICLE
The exchange of correspondence shall take
place between the post-offices to be hereafter
designated by the two post departments; but
either of the two offices SO designated may at any
time be discontinued, and others established by
mutual consent.
ARTICLE 3.
The United States Office shall make its own ar
rangements for the dispatch of its mails to Den
mark, and in like manner the office of Denmark
shall make its own arrangements for the the dis
patch of its mails to the United States. The
mails shall be reciprocally forwarded by the re-
gular routes Of communication hereinbefore
mentioned, and each office shall, at its own cost,
pay the expense of the intermediate transporta-
ton (sea and territorial Of the mails which it dis
patches to the other. 1t is also agreed that the
cost, either in whole or in part, of the interna-
tonal ocean and territorial transit of the closed
mails exchanged in both directions between the
respective frontiers shall, upon application of
either Office be first betrayed by that one of the
two offices which shall have obtained from the
Intermediates the most favorable pecuniary
terms for such conveyance, and any amount so
advanced by one for and on account of the other
shall be promptly reimbursed
ARTICLE L.
The postage on ordinary letters sent from the
United States to Denmark, or from Denmark to
the United States, shall be respectively twelve
d2) shilling rigsmont, or seven (7) cents for
The weight Of q single letter shall not e2ceed
fifteen grammeg.
For every letter exceeding fifteen grammes
every additional fifteen grammes or fraction of
fifteen grammes The weight stated by the dis
patching office shall always be accepted, except
In cases of manifest error.
The MAXIMUM weight of letters shall be two
hundred and fifty (26O grammes.
ARTICLE 8.
The prepayment of postage on ordinary letters
shall be optional. II they shall be forwarded
unpaid, or insuffciently paid they shall, in the
first case, be charged, besides the usual postage,
with an additional postage Of respectively four
!4 cents, or six !e) shilling rigsmont, and in the
last case, beside5 the deficient hostages, with
similar additional postage.
ARTICLE 6.
On all other correspondence in the first article
mentioned, the rates shall be, for the mails dis
patched, that which the dispatching office shall
adopt, adapted te the convenience and HABITS of
its interior administration. But each office
shall give notice TO the other of the rate 1t
adopts and of any subsequent change thereof.
These articles shall be forwarded under regula-
tions of the dispatching pest-otiiee, but always
including the following
l. The postage shall be prepaid IT. however,
the postage on the correspondence mentioned in
said correspondence shall still be forwarded to
the place or destination; but it shall, in that
case, beside the deficient postage, be charged
with an additional postage not exceeding four
az cents in the United States, and six 6) shilling
rgsmont In Denmark.
q No packet shall contain thing which
shall be closed against inspection, nor any writ
ten 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 merchandise
g. No packet may exceed two feet in length, or
one foot in any other dimension,
4. Neither Office shall be bound to deliver any
article the importation of which may be prohibi.
ted by the laws or regulations of the country of
dest nation.
8. The customs duties that may be charge
able in each of the two countries may be levied
for the use OF the customs.
ARTICLE 7.
Any correspondence mentioned In Article ]
may be registered, and the postage chargoabe on
such correspondence snail always be prepaid.
Registered correspondence shall in addition to the
postage, be subject to an International registra-
ton fee not exceeding ten (0) cents in the United
States, ana eight ts) shilling rigsmont in Den
mark, and this fee shall always be prepaid Each
Office is at liberty to reduce this fee for the mails
it dispatches. Each department shall use its
hast ritz fort a "a liz 1aliyprU
correspondence. but is not responsible pecl,narily
for tha loss OF any such eorresnondence,
r... ARTICLE 8.
1t is futher agreed that no charge of any kind,
or on any account otherwise than is herein ex.
pressly provided, shall be levied or collected in
the country Of destination on the letters or other
correspondence exchanged.
ARTICLE 3.
As to the correspondence originating in one
country and destined for the other, no account
shall take place. and thus the t.efflce OF the
United States shall retain the whole amount of
postage collected in the United States upon in.
ternational paid correspondence forwarded to
Denmark, and upon International unpaid or in
sufficiently paid correspondence received from
Denmark; and IN lik manner the Danish post
office shall retain the whole amount of postage
collected in Denmark upon international paid
correspondence forwarded to the United States
and upon International unpaid OF insufiiciently
paid correspondence received fIgnI9 the united
| STATES. az '
However, each of the two departments shall
| BIO at liberty to claim accounts to be settled
when 1t appears that In one country for ene year
there Is levied 20 per cent mQre than in The other
II an account is ella med it shall be regulated on
| the following basis ..-.-
| From the total amount of hostages and regis
| ter fees collected by each office on letters,
| added to the total amount of prepaid hostages
| and register fees on other correspondence which
| it dispatches, the dspatching office shall deduct
| the amount required for the conveyance of the
| mails between the two countries, and the amount
of the two net sums shall be equally diylded be-
! tween the two offices, -.
| Toe deficient and additional hostages men
| toned In Article shall not be included in the
| account between the two offices but, unshared
| shall belong to the Office by which they are col
| lected.
| ARTICLE TO- ... . 81"
The two post departments shall establish, by
agreement, and in conformity with the arrangs
ments In force at the ting, The G9naltlonS upon
which the two offices may respectively exchange
| in open mails the correspondence originating II
i or destined to other foreign countries to which
| they may rsciprocally serve as intermedlarles
4 1t is always understood, however, that such cor
respondence shall only be charged with tht
| American Danish rate, augmented by the pest
age due to Foreign eenntries, or fnr ether este
| 1t Is agreed that the account Of this CORES
pondence shall, as to the interna tiopai postage
chargeable on the same, be regulated on the ba
sis mentioned in the preceding article, but tina
/ the amount of the extra-nation postage, O
other tax for exterior service shall be reciprocal
ly accounted for at full rates. Such charges TO
paid correspondence to, and for unpaid CORES
pondence from, foreign countries, shall therefor
be suflfnariIy entered OF. the respective letter
bills To the credit the country Through whic
the same Is forwarded, = -9E sa4ga