The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-25
LAWS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECoND
CONGRESS.
Postal Convention between the Uniteo
States and Newfoundland.

Postal Convention between the ohi'eu
States and Newfoundland.
Tho under.iyned. being thereunto duly au
thorized by their respective government 1h;n0
agreed upon the following artlcie eH'rrssnondence
ard reouIating the exchange OF correspondents
ana reguiatlnf r ,i States of America and
Newfoundland.
r,oro sb.l he an exchange of mails between
the limited States of America anu Ne"1ounu-
s PIC hv sncb means of transportation as are
n,r or sball be, established with the approval
ns,be respective Post Departments of tn. two
Countries. comprising letters, newspapers,
no ks. printed matter of every kind and pat
terns or samples of merchandise originating in
either country and addressed to aud deliverable
In the other country.
ARTICLE 2.
The post-offices of Boston and New York
shall be he exchange offices on the side of the
United States, and the post office of Saint
Johns shall be the sole Office of exchange on
the side of Newfoundland, for all mails trans
mitted between the two countries under this
arrangement; and all mail matter transmitted
in either direc ion, betw cen the respective of
fees of exchange, shall be forwarded in closed
bags or pouches under seal, addressed to the
corresponding exchange Office. Each mail
shall be accompanied by letter or post-bill,
showingin separate columns the number OF
ActtcIss ucWSpdpcrs,diiuo Uuci aitioioo eADAeiSS"
therein, and the postage thereon
ARTICLE 8.
No accounts shall be kept between the Post
Departments of the two countries upon the in
teruational correspondence. written or printed,
exchanged between them but each Department
shall retain to its own use all the hostages
which 1t collects thereon.
The single rate of international letter postage
in full, to destination shall be six cents on each
letter weighing half an ounce 10 grams) or
less and an additional rate of six cents for each
additional weight of half ounce Us grams)
or fractions thereof the prepayment of which
shall be compulsory at the office of mailing in
either country
Tho United States post office shall levy and
collect to its own use postal charge of two
cents on each newspaper mailed in the United
States ard addressed to Newfoundland; and
postage charge of two ceuts for each two
ounces or fractions thereof, on pamphlets, Pc
riodicas, books, other articles of printed mat
ter, and patterns or samples of merchandise
addressed to OF received from Newfoundla nd.
The post-office of Newfoundland shall levy
and collect to its own use postage charge of
two cents on each newspaper mailed in New
foundland and addressed to the United States
and the established rates of domestic postage
chargeable in Newfoundland, on pamph'ets,
periodicals, books, other articles of printed mat
ter, aud patterns or samples of mercha ndise
addressed to or received from the United
States.
Every international letter or newspaper shall
bt plainly stamped with the w rds paid all
In red ink, by the dispatching of exchange and
shall be delivered free Of any charge whatever in the
country of destination.
shall be subject to the laws and regulations of
each country, respectively, in regard to their la
bill ty TO be led with postage when contain
ing written matter or for any other specified in
said laws and regulations well in egard their
liability to customs du y under the revenue laws.
ARTICLE 4.
The two Post-Depar ments shall establish by agree
mont, and in conformity with arrangements in force
at the time, the conditions upon which the two offices
may recprocaly exchange in open mails the CORES
pondence originating in or estlned t other foreign
countries to which they may respectively serve in
termediaries.
Either country forwarding or receiving such cor
responience through he open mails of the other
shall account to such other country for such postage
chargeable thereon, for exterior service
by its laws and regulations, of its foreign postal
rangements.
ARTICLE g.
The two Post Departments may, by mutual agree
ment pro, for the transmission Of regis cred let
tiers In the mails exchanged between tue two coun-
tries and may settle by agreement between them all
of detail and arrangements required to car
the same in like manner, from tine to time, as the
exigencies of the service may require.
ARrIcLE6 6.
Dead letters which cannot be delivered, from what
cause, shall be mutually returne without
charge, monthly, more frequently, as the regula-
lions of the respective offices will ermir.
ARTICLE Z.
This convention shall come into operation the first
day of December, 1872, AMI shall be terminable at
any time on ,tce, by either party, of six months
Done IN duplicate and signed at Washington the
twentieth day of November, and at Saint Johns the
thirteenth day Of Nov -mber, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.
(SEALl j. W. MARSHALL.
Actinn Postmaster General
(SEAL1 JOHN DELANY,
POs master General.
hereby approve the aforegoing convention and
in testimony thereof, have caused the seal Of the
Unite States to be affixed.
U. S. GRANT.
BY the President
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State. [sEAL1
WASHINGTON, November 20, 1872.