New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-03


The maximum weight of letters shall be
two hundred and fifty grammes
ARTICLE Y,
The prepayment of postage on ordinary
letters shall be optional. If they shall be
forwarded unpaid, or insufhCientIy paid,
they shall, Ia 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 ad-
ditionaI 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 cen
! 7enience 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
dispatohing post0thce, but always including
| the following:
1. The postage shall be prepaid. IT, 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
| diti0nal postage, not exceeding four cents
!
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.
| g. No packet may exceed two feet ia
! length. or 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.
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 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 fer the loss of
any 5uCu CUIIt5 pOAA6AiCC'
ARTICLE VIII.
It is further agreed that no charge of am
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
ono oolTT fry and dastinnG he ~
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
respondcnce 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 IN
paid or insutficiently paid correspondence
received from the United States,
However, each of the two departments
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
hostages and register fees on other cores
pondence which it dispatches, the dispatch
ing 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 he
tween the two offices.
The deficient aQd additional hostages
mentioned in article six shall not be in
Al, ,l,,,1 IL
Offices, but. unshared, shall belong to the
Office by which they are collected.
ARTICLE X.
The two post departments shall establish
by agreement, and in conformity with the
arrangements in force at the time. the con
diti0ns upon which the two Offices may re-
spectiyely exchange in open mails the cor
respOndence originating in or destined to
other foreign countries to which they may
recipr0cally serve as Intermediates. It is
always. understood, however. that such cor
respondenoe shall only be charged with the
American-Danish rate, augmented by the
postage due to foreign countries, or tor
other exterior service
1t is agreed that the account OF this CORE !
sp0ndence shall, as to the international
hostages chargeable on the same, be regu- |
lated on the basis mentioned in the pEeced~ |
ing article, but that the amount Of the ex-
tra-national postage, or other tax for exte-
rior service, shall be reciprocally accounted |
for at full rates. Such charges for paid cor
respODdence to and for unpaid correspond |
ence from foreign countries shall, therefore, |
be summarily entered on the respective let |
ter bills to the credit of the country through |
which the same is forwarded.
ARTICLE NJ.
The Postofice Of the United States shall |
be granted the privilege of transit of closed |
mails through the Danish territory, ex-
changed in either direction, to and from |
Sweden and Norway, for a payment Of four
shilling rigsmOnt Der thirty grammes
net weight Of letters, and tw0-thirds skill
ing rigsmont per forty grammes net |
weight Of prints, patterns, and samples Of |
Correspondence exempt from
postage, letters which can not be delivered,
as well as money orders, shall not be
charged with any transit rate.
grants to- the Office of Denmark the priv
lege Of transit of the closed mails exchanged
in either direction between The latter and
any country to which the former may serve
as intermediary, by its usual means of mail
whether on sea or land, and
the terms of transit shall be agreed upon
when the exercise Of the privilege is re-
luired.
ARTICLE XII.
The postal accounts between the two
offices shall be stated and transmitted
quarterly, and verified az speedily as posi-
0le and the balance found due shall be
paid in the coin of the creditor country.
The rate for the conversion of the money
If the two countries shall be one dollar for
me rigsdaler, eighty-fve shilling rigsmoTt.