New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-19
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TREATIES AND PRoCLAuAT1oNs.


The Post Department of the United States
of America and the Danish Post Depart
ment have agreed upon employing the
steamers in regular service between their
territories, as we'll as the steamers engaged
between Hamburg and Bremen on the enc
side, and American ports on the other, IN
order to establish an immediate exchange
of mails, and have, tor that purpose, con-
scented to the following articles;
ARTICLE /.
There shall be an immediate exchange OF
correspondence between the United States
of America and Denmark by means OF the
said steamers, and this correspondence shall
embrace letters, newspapers. book packets,
prints of all kinds comprising maps, plans,
engravings, drawings, photographs, Iltho-
graphs, and all other like productions of
mechanical processes, sheets of music, etc.,,
and patterns or samples of merchandise;
and such correspondence may be exchanged,
whether originating in either of the said
countries, or originating in countries to
which these may respectively serve as IN
termediaries.
ARTICLE II.
The exchange of correspondence shall
take place between the poBtotfices to be
hereafter designated by the two post depart
ments; but either of the two offices SO deeig-
mated may at any time be discontinued, and
others established by mutual consent
ARTICLE III.
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 ar
rangements for the dispatch of its mails to
the United States The mails shall be re-
ciprocalIy forwarded by the regular routes
of communication bereinbefOre mentioned,
and each office shall, at its own cost, pay
the expense of the intermediate transporta-
ton isea and territorial) of the mails which
it dispatches to the other. 1t is also agreed
that the cost, either in whole or III part, OF
the international ocean and territorial
transit of the closed mails exchanged III
both directions between the respective
frontiers shall, npon application Of either
office, be ticst betrayed by that one OF the
two offices which shall have obtained from
the Intermediates the most favorable pc
cuniary terms for such conveyance, and
anv amount so advanced by one for or on
account of the other shall be promptly re-
imbursed.
ARTICLE ".
The postage on ordinary letters sent from
the United States to Denmark, or from Den
mark to the United States, shall be respec-
lively twelve shilling rigsmont, or seven
GSuL9 lUE IL SLilSlt ISlGCI'
The weight OF a sing lie letter shall not ex-
coed fifteen grammes.
For every letter exceeding fifteen grammes
there shall be paid a single rate of postage
for every additional fifteen grammes or
fraction of fifteen grammes. The weight
stated by the dispatching Office shall always
be accepted, except in case Of manifest
error.
The maximum weight of letters shall be
two hundred and fifty grammeS.
ARTICLE Y,
The prepayment of postage on ordinary
letters shall be optional. II they shall be
forwarded unpaid, or insutfciently paid,
they shall, in the first ease, 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 ad-
ditiOpal postage
ARTICLE vi.
On all other correspondence in the first
article men toned, 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 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
whollyprepaid, 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 ad-
ditional postage not exceeding. four cents
in the United States. and six shilling rigs
mont in Denmark.
g 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
ia sent, and the number and price placed
upon each pattern OE sample OF Tnerchan-
disc.
3. No racket 2naY exceed swo feeS in
length. or one foot in any other dimension
!. 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 dutes 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 10 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 PR paid
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 che loss OF
any such correspondence.
ARTICLE VIII.
It 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
re8pondenc8 forwarded to Denmark, and
upon international unpaid or insuficiently
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 I'M
paid or insuficiently paid correspondence
received from the United States.
However, each of the two depar 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 and
register fees collected by each Office on let
tiers, added TO the total amount OF prepaid