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CONVENTION

CONVENTION
FOR THE REGULATION OF THE POSTAL IN
TERCoUReE
BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND
THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK.
[ooNoLUDRDl
The Post DEPARTMENT OF the United States Of
America and the Daniah Post Department have
agreed upon employing the steamers In regular SER
vice between their territories, e. well as the steam
era engaged between Hamburg and Bremen on the
side. and American ports on the other, in order
to establish an immediate exchange OF mails, aud
have, for that purpose, consented to the following
ARTicLRX.
The two post departments shall establish BY agree
ment, and In conformity with the Arrangements In
two ofices may respectively exchange In open
malls the correspondence originating In or destined
TO other foreign countries TO which they may reclp
r0cay serve as Intermediates. II s always under
stood however, that such correspondence shall only
be enlarged with the American-Danish rate, aug
mented by the postage due to foreign countries or
1t is agreed that the account of this correspond
ence shall, as TO the international postages charge
able on the same, be regulated on the basis men-
toned in the preceding article; but that the
amount of the extra national postage, other tax
for exterior service, shall be recprocally accounted
for at full rates Such charges for paid correspond
ence to, and for unpaid correspondence from, for
eign countries shall therefore be summartly entered
on the respective letter bills TO the credit OF the
country to which the same is forwarded
ARTICLE Xl
The rost-oilce of ina United States shall be
granted the privilege Of transit OF closed mails
through the Danish territory, exchanged In either
direction, to aud from Sweden and Norway. for q
payment OF four skilllng rigament per thirty Coy
ersmmes net weight of letters, and twothirds skill
Ing rgsmont per (a0) forty grammes net weight OF
prints, patterns, and samples OF merchandise Cor
respondence exempt from postage, letters which
cannot be delivered, AZ well as money orders, shall
not be charged with any trarat rate
Reciprocaly, the United States oiiice grants to
the once Of Denmark the prlvilegeof transit OF the
closed mails exchanged in either direction between
the latter and any country to which the former may
transportation, whether on sea or land, and the
terms OF transit shall be agreed upon when the ex-
erclso of the privilege Is required
ARTICLE XII.
The postal accounts between the two onices shall
be stat ed and transmitted quarterly, and verified
speedily az possible, and the balance found due
shall be paid In the coin OF the creditor country
The RUE for the conversion OF the money OF the
TWO countries shall be dollar for flRsdaler,
eighty-nve smiling rgsmoht The two ofiices shall
rate for the conversion
ARTICLE XIII
ANY ordinary correspondence wrongly addressed,
or wrongly sent, shall without delay, aud registered
correspondence of all kinds, as well as ordinary let
ters not deliverable for any other cause than the
aforesaid, within the issue OF every month, be mu-
Lually returned ut the expense OF the originating
office. All o'her correspondence which cannot be
delivered shall remain ut the disposition OF the re-
celving Ofire
II any returned correspondence shall be charged
with postage debited the office OF destination the
said correspondence shall be returned for the
amount OF postage which was originally charged by
the dspatchng once
ARTICLE XIV
When, in any port OF either country, closed mail
Is transferred from one vessel to another, without
any expense TO the 0fnce of the country where the
transfer ia made, Ggch transfer shall not be- sub
Ject to any postal charge by one office against the
other
ARTICLE XIV
Ofical communications between the two ofiicea
shall not bo the occasion OF any accounts on either
side
ARTICLE XVI
The two oflices shall, by mutual consent aestab-
toexecutlon of the articles included In the conven-
tlon may require
The present convention shall be carried into ef-
feet the day on which the two offices shall agree
and shall continue in force until one OF the two
within the issue of calendar yearsits Intention to
AIT Gle XVIII
The present Convention is to be ratided aud the
ratincatiOas are to be exchanged as soon as poss-
BILE
Tth day OF November A. ID. 1911, and Vt Wash.ng.
ton, this lst day OF December 1871
ILsl INO A CRESW ELL,
Postmaster General of the United States
IL ST. DANNESKJOLD RAMSUE.
hereby approve the aforGgoing conventlon,Ia
In testimony lheraOf have iused tile seal OF the
United States To be ailXed
[srALl L. +. GRANT.
By the President
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Ot State.
MASuISGrOH, December !, 1871.