Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-15
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty
First Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY ....
CONVENTION

FOR
THE REGULATION OFTHE POSTAL
INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA AND
THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK. ~
The Post Department of the United
States of America and the Danish Post
Department have agreed upon employing
the steamers in regular service between
their territories, as well as the steamers en-
gagged between Hamburg and Bremen on
the one side, and American ports on the
other, in order to establish an immediate
exchange of mails, and have, for that pur
pose, consented to the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
There shall be an immediate exchange
of correspondence between the United
States of America and Denmark by means
of the said steamers, and this correspond
ence shall embrace letters, newspapers,
book packets, prints of all kinds, (compri-
sing maps, plans, engrayings, drawings,
photographs, Autographs, and all other
like productions of mechanical processes,
sheets of music, &c., and patterns or
samples of merchandise and such cores
pondence may be exchanged, whether Or
iginating in either of the said countries,
or originating in countries to which these
may respectively serve AS Intermediates.
ARTICLE
The exchange of correspondence shall
take place between the post offices to be
hereinafter designated by the two post de-
partments; but either of the two offices so
designated may at any time be discOn-
tinued, and others established by mutual
consent. eco -a 1892 $500.
ARTICLE 5.
The United States office shall make its
own arrangements for the dispatch of its
mails to Denmark, and in like manner the
office Denmark shall makei its own arrange
ments for the dispatch of its mails to the
United States. The mails shall be recip
rocally forwarded by the regular routes of
communication hereinbefore mentioned,
and each office shall, at its own cost, pay
the expense of the intermediate transport
tation (sea and territoriaD of the mails
which it dispatches to the other. 1t is also
agreed that the cost, either in whole or in
part, of the international ocean and terri
torial transit of the closed mails exchanged
in both directions between the respective
frontiers SHALL upon application of either
office, be first betrayed by that one of the
two offices which shall have obtained from
the Intermediates the most favorable pc
cuniary terms for such conveyance, and
any amount so advanced by one for and on
account of the other shall be promptly re-
imbursed.
ARTICLE 1.
The postage on ordinary letters sent from
the United States to Denmark, or from
Denmark to the United States, shall be re-
spectively 12) shilling rigsmont, or seven
O. cent for single letter. .,5s,.-
The weight of a single letter shall not
exceed fifteen grammes.
For every letter exceeding fifteen gram
mos there shall be paid single rate of
postage for every additional fifteen gram
mes or fraction of fifteen grammes. The
weight stated by the dispatching office
shall always be accepted, except in cases OF
manifest error.
The maximum weight of letters shall be
two hundred and fifty (250) grammes.
ARTICLE 5.
The payment of postage on ordin airy let
tiers shall be optional. If they shall be for
warded unpaid, or insufficiently paid, they
shall, in the first case, be charged, besides
the usual postage, with an additional post
age of respectively az cents, or six (6) skill
ing rigsmOnt, and in the last case, besides
the deficient postage, with similar addi-
tional postage.
~ ARTICLE 6.
On all other correspondence in the first
article mentioned, the rates shall be, for
the mails dispatched, that which the dis
patched. that which the dispatchlng Office
shall adopt, adapted to the convenience
and habits of its interior administration.
But each office shall give notice to the
other of the rate it adopts and of any sub
sequent change thereof. These articles
shall be forwarded under regulations of the
dispatching post office, but always inclu-
ding the following: s5e
1. The postage shall be prepaid. If, 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 des-
tination; but it shall, in that case, beside
the deficient postage, be charged with an
additional postage, not exceeding four
(4) cents in the United States, and SIX l6)
shilling rigsmont in Denmark. ~st-