New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-11

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The maximum weight of letters shall b
two hundred and fifty grammes.
ARTICLE V.
The prepayment of postage on ordinar7
letters shall be optional. If they shall b.
forwarded unpaid, or insuthciently paid
they shall, in the first case. be charged, be
sides the usual postage, with an additional
postage of respectively four cents, or si1
SHILLING rigsmont, and in the last case, be
sides the deficient postage, with similar ad
ditional postage.
ARTICLE VI.
On all other correspondence in the frs
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 tC
the other of the rate it adopts, and of any
subsequent change thereof. These articles
shall be forwarded under regulations of the
dispatching postofice, but always including
the following;
[. 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 add
| ditienal postage, not exceeding four cents
| in the United States, and six shilling rigs
! mont in Denmark.
| 2 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.
3. No packet may exceed two feet in
T1r, IL. j.
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.
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
chargeabe 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 prepaid.
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 tie 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 insufficiently
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 un-
paid or insutticiently 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, 1t shall be regulated on the follow |
ing basis:
From the total amount of hostages and |
register fees collected by each office on let
tiers, added to the total amount of prepaid
hostages and register fees on other cores
pOndence which it dispatches, the dispatch
Jag 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 divided be-
tween the two offices.
The deficient and additional
in article six shall not be in
GUIDED in the account between the two
,fices, but, unshared shall belong to the
'tfice by which they are collected.
ARTICLE Y
The two postdepartments shall establish,
by agreement, AID in conformity with the
in force at the time, the CON
LltIOnS upon which the two offices may re-
pecuyely exchange in open mails the cor
dependence originating in or destined to
Dther foreign countries to which they NAV
serve as Intermediates. 1t is
Llways understood, however, that such cor
dependence shall only be charged with the
American Danish rate, augmented by the
postage due to foreign countries, OF for
ther exterior service.
1t is agreed that the account OF this CORE
pOndence shall, as to the international
hostages chargeable on the same, be regu-
ated on the basis mentioned in the proceed
lg article, but that the amount of the eX-
ra-national postage, or other tax for exte-
Tor service, shall be recipr0calIy accounted
Or at full rates. Such charges for paid cor
espondence to and tor unpaid correspond
nee from foreign countries shall, therefore,
e summarilT entered on the respective let
er bills to the credit of the country through
hitch the same is forwarded.
ARTICLE xT
The Postotfice of the United States shall
e granted the privilege of transit OF closed :
aiIS through the Danish territory, ex-
ranged In either direction, to and from
weden and Norway, Tor a payment of four ,,
i1lllng rlgsm0nt per Thirty grammes
It weight OF letters, and two-thirds skill :
g. ugsmont per forty grt5In-s net
elgnt OF prints, patterns, and samples of y
trchandlae. Correspondence exemp from =
)stage, letters which can not be delivered. :
"eli as money orders, shall Ict be !
iarged with any transit rate.
ReclprocallT, the United States Office
ants to the office Of Denmark the privi-
&c OF transit Of tae closed mails exchanged Il
either direction between the latter and Z
~ country to which the former may serve {
intermediary. by its usual means of mail
ansportatlon, whether on sea or land, and c
g terms Of transit snail be agreed upon v
tired. y
ARTICLE XII.
The postal account. between the gwo
ices shal! 10 stated and transmitted
arte1l y, and verified as speedily as posi-. 8
e, and the balance found due shalt Be : Il
Id IN the coin 0t the creditor sountlyo ii
Inc rate fox tho conversion of the money 81
the two countries sHaiH be one dollar Tor | n
e HgSda!eE. eightgtiye SHILLING rigsmoDt Il
e two offices shall. inUpvao No.. Ia, ! ~,