New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-09

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| Detailed regulations agreed upon between
the Postotfice of the United States and
the postal administration of Sweden for
the execution of the convention of the
fifteenth of March, 1873, between the
United States of America and the King
doms Of Sweden and Norway:
ARTICLE L.
The American exchange offices of New
York and Chicago shall make up mails for
the Swedish exchange Offices of Goteborg.
the travelling postoffice No. between Cote
borg and Stockholm, and the travelling
postotfice No. 2 between 'MalmO and Fal-
kOping.
The latter shall make Up Ilails fop the
exchange offices Of New York and Chicago
Table A, hereto annexed. indicates the
correspondence to be distributed to each
exchange Office.
ARTICLE II
Eachm exchanged between the respec-
tive offices shall be accompanied by let
ter-bill showing the postages and the
charges of transit. the fee,. etc, accruing
to each office upon the different kinds Of
correspondence.
The form of this letter-hll shall follow
the models 81 and b., hereto annexed, and
shall be consecutively numbered by tbedis-
patching Office during eacl quarter of the
calendar year.
The receiving Office shall acknowledge its
receipt by the next disparcl.
ARTICLE Ill
The exchange offices shall divide the COP
respondence which they dispatch into a
suitable number of separate packages, &C
cordiEg to the letter bill.
Each OF these packages shall Dear the
and mum tRrs
Ing to the letter bill.
When more than a single rate is charge
able upon any letter or oher article, the
number of rates to which tits subject shall
be Indicated by the dspstchng Office by
figure il tho upper lett conner of the ad-
dress.
ARTICLE r.
Registered correspondence shall be de
scribed in 2 register list, following the
models CT and G., hereto annexed.
All registered letters and he register list
shall be enveloped togsthe', in strong pa
per. and securely fastened, and the packet
plainly inscribed with the word 'regis-
tered" or "sekoMpendaras,' and placed in
the mail.
Che blank in che registered letter Int for
expressing the number of registered articles
shall be filled in letters and figures express
ing the number. in case no registered arri.
Giles are sent, the proper blanh of the letter
bill shall oe 6lled with the w)r6 ''aihile or
"nu."
ARTICLE VI.
1he register lists dispatched shall be re-
tanned by the receiving Otfics, which Office
shall acknowledge by the irst mail the
registered articles, nuperiealy, from No. -
to No.
IF the veri6cation BY the exchange Office
disclose an error u any kindin the register
receipt of the list, it shall te also, by the
first mail, notified to the dishtching office.
ARTICLE VII.
The two administrations mutually engage
to take all needful measures FOR the careful
transmission of registered correspondence,
and for pursuing it when los; but it is I'M
derstOOd that neither assumes toward the
other sny pecuniary responsibility in case
OF loss.
ARTICLE VIII.
All letters exchanged between the sew
eral offices shall indicate by ,tamp or writ
ing thereon the Office of Origin, and the I'M
paid letters 80 exchanged shall also be
stamped with the name of tie dispatching
Office of exchange.
Correspondence fully paidto destination
shall be stamped in the Unitei States paid
all and IN sweden "frankO
Registered articles shall be stamped
"registered' in the United Safes, and re
kommenderas' in Sweden.
Correspondence insuficienly paid shall
be stamped in the United states 'insutfi-
GENTLY paid :" and in Sweder "ofullstandig
frankerad," and the amount of deficient
postage expressed in figures tolaek) on the
face.
Correspondence dispatched by direct
line between the respective Countries shall
be stamped "direct SERVICE )r service di-
rect"
When dispatched via England or via Ger
many and Denmark it shall De stamped to
indicate British or German and Danish
transit.
ARTICLE TX.
The respective postal administrations are
mutually to furnish each otler with lists
stating the foreign countries to which the
foreign postage, and the amount thereof
must be absolutely prepaid Or can be left
unpaid, and until such lists are furnished
neither country is. to mail to the other any
correspondence for foreign countries be-
yOnd the country to which thu mail is sent.
Such lists shall also indicate the foreign
countries with which registered correspond
ence may be exchanged in tie open mails
between the several offices, aud the scOndi-
tons thereof.
ARTICLE x.
The respective exchange Offices shall
mark, in red ink, III the upper corner OF the
address, at the right hand, If prepaid let
tiers sent for transit in the open mail, the
amount OF the extra national postage due to
the country through which thesame are for
warded; and in the same manner and place,
but in black ink. shall mark the amount of
tho avfr no tinral &,a RI fha for.
warding country upon the unpaid letters
sent i'll transit.
ARTICLE XI.
Articles under band which do not con-
form to the conditions mentioned in article
eleven OF the convention, or which are in
no part prepaid, shall be retained by the
administration of origin, and shall remain
subject to its disposal.
ARTICLE XII.
Letters originating in or destined for for
eign countries, sent in the open mail, for
transit through the United States or through
Sweden, and which are insutfciently paid.
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and
no account taken between tie respective
administrations OF the amount prepaid.
ARTICLE XIII.
Letters and all registered articles not de-
llverable shall be respectively returned to
the dispatching administration at the end
of every month (see exhibits Dl and DE-,
but all other articles of correspondence, not
registered, which from any cause can not
be delivered, shall be retained at the dispo
sition of the receiving country
The unpaid hostages on the letters so re-
turned shall be deducted from the account
against the office originally charged there
with.
The prepaid hostages on the letters so re-
turned shall remain in the account as
originally entered.
The expense of transit of unpaid CORES
pondendce which has been transported by
either administration in closed mails, and
shall be returned TO the disna ching Office