New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-09
OF the Uuited States-l. New York;

Chicago.
The respective postal administrations ar
authorized, if circumstances should re
qulre 1t, to discontinue any of the Office
designated for the exchange of mails, or t,
establish others in their place.
| ARTICLE III
The pOstoffices Of Sweden and Norwa,
snail make their own arrangements for III,
| dispatch Of mails to the United States: an(
| IN like manner the postotfice of the United
States shall make arrangements for the dis
| patch OF mails to Sweden and Norway. Thu
mails shall be forwarded by regular routes
OF communication; and each office shall. al
| It's own cost, pay the expense Of the inter
mediate transportation (sea and territorial
OF the mails which it dispatches to thu
other country. 1t is agreed that the cost o.
the International, ocean and Territorial
transit OF closed mails, exchanged in either
direction, between the frontiers of the re-
| spectlve countries, shall be first defrayed
by that one of the offices which shall have
obtained from the postofiices of the inter
meulary countries the most favorable terms
lor such conveyance, and any amount sc
advanced by one Office, for and on account
OF the other, shall be promptly reimbursed
ARTICLE ".
The standard weight for the single rate
OF postage shall be:
l. For letters, fifteen grammes.
:. For all other correspondence mentioned
IN the second paragraph of the first article,
that which each office adopts for the mails
which 1t dispatches to the other, adapted to
the regulations prescribed for such CORE
spondence in the dispatching country. Each
office shall. however, give notice to the
other OF the standard weight it adopts and
OF any subsequent change thereof
The rule of progression shall be an addi-
tional single rate tor each additional single
weight or fraction thereof.
The weight stated by the dispAtchinn
ofhce shall always be accepted except in
the case of manifest error.
ARTICLE v.
The single rate Of postage for letter cor
respondence exchanged in direct mails be-
tween the United Kingdoms and the Emitted
States shall be
l. By closed mail, via England, without
regard to the forwarding of the correspond
ence. whether to or from Swedish orP Nor
wegian seaport, or through Germany.
l. For letters from Sweden for the United
States
(a) When prepaid in Sweden, thirty six
ore.
(b) When paid in the United States, four
teen cents.
9. For Letters from the United States to
Sweden
.ta) When prepaid in the United States,
nine cents
tb) When paid in Sweden, fifty sin ore.
s. For letters from Norway for the United
la) When prepaid in Norway, twelve
shilling.
~ When paid in the United States, ff-
teen cents.
4. For letters from the United States for
Norway
(a) When prepaid in the United States
ten cents.
~ When paid in Norway, eighteen skill
ing.
IL. By direct regular steamship COM
munication between ports in the United
Kingdoms, whether the port be Swedish or
Norwegian on the one side, and ports in the
United States on the other side
l. For letters from Sweden for the United
States
ta) When prepaid in Sweden, twenty
four ore.
~ When paid in the United States. nine
cents.
2. For letters from the United States for
Sweden
(a) When prepaid in the United States,
six cents.
~ When paid in Sweden, thirty-six ore
3. For letters from Norway to the United
States
Ia When prepaid in Norway, seven
shilling.
~ When paid in the United States, nine
cents.
4. For letters from the United States for
TAI When prepaid in the United States,
six cents.
~ When paid in Norway, ten shilling.
Insutficiently prepaid letters shall be
charged with the postage for unpaid letters,
after deductlng the prepaid amount.
On all other correspondence mentioned in
the second paragraph Of the first article, the
rate shall be, for the mails despatched by
either route, that which the dispachiDg
office shall adopt. adapted to the regulations
prescribed for such correspondence in the
dispatching country. But each office shall
give notice to the other of the rate it adopts,
and of any subsequent change thereof.
ARTICLE vi.
The Atlantic sea rate on the cOrrespon-
dence sent in closed mails through England
shall not exceed six cents per ounce for
letter mails, and six cents per pound for
other correspondence; nor shall the charge
for the sea conveyance thereof, between
England and the United kingdoms, exceed
two cents per single letter rate. or six cents
per ounce net weight of letter mails, and
six cents per pound for other cores
pOndence.
1t is also agreed that the entire cost of
the sea transportation between the bounda-
res of the respective countries, by any di-
rect line of steamships adapted to the con-
veyance of mails, and employed by the re-
spective pOstoffices, shall not exceed two
cents for each single letter rate, or six cents
per ounce, net weight, of letter mails, and
six cents per pound of other correspond
ence.
1t is further stipulated that the Atlantic
sea rate on the correspondence sent in
closed mails through Germany shall not ex-
coed five cents per thirty grammes OF let
tiers, and ten cents per kilogramme Of other
correspondence.
1t is also understood and agreed that the
Norwegian postoffice shall be reimbursed
tor the closed mails sent through Germany,
which have been forwarded by the direct
steamboat line between Christanssand and
Hamburg, worked on Norwegian account,
by sum corresponding to the Swedish and
Danish rate of transit for closed mails sent
through Sweden and Denmark.
ARTICLE VII.
Ordinary letters may be sent prepaid or
unpaid, but on registered letters, and on all
other correspondence mentioned in the sec
Ond paragraph of the first article, prepay
ment shall be obligatory.
ARTICLE VIII.
Registered articles shall, in addition to
the postage, be subject to a. reg1ter fee OF
thirty ore in Sweden, of eight shilling in
Norway. and Of eight cents in the United
States This fee, as well as the postage,
shall always be prepaid. Each office is at
liberty to reduce this fee for the mails it
ARTICLE IN.