The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-26
ARTIccE 1.

ta54 ARTICcE 1.
The American exchange offices of New York
and Chica go shall ma Ike up mails for the Swedish
exchange offices OF Goteborg, the travelling
postoffice No. l, between Goteborg and Stock
homI. and the taveling post-ofiice No. 2, between
Malamo and Falkoking.
The lattor shall make up mails for the eX-
change offices of New York and Chicago
Table A, hereto annexed, indicates the cores
dondence to be distributed to each exchange
office.
.alf ARTICLE 2. aE .F sa
Eoch mail exchanged between the respective
offices shall be accompanied by q letterbill,
showing the hostages and the charges of transit,
the fees, Sc. accruidg to each Office upon the diff
ferant kinds of correspondence.
The form of this letter bill shall follow the
models Bl and BE. hereto annexed and shall be
consecutively numbered by the despatcbing of.
flee during each quarter of the calendar year.
The receiving office shall acknowledge its re-
ceipt by the next dispatch.
ARTICLE s. %afIa .
The exchange offices shall divide the CORES
pondence which they dispatch into a suitable
letterbi''.
When more than q single rate is chargeable
npon any letter or other article, the number of
rates to which it is subject shall be indicated by
the dispatching office by q figure in the upper
left corner of the address.
ARTICLE s.
Registered correspondence shall be described
in fregster-iist, following The models Cl and
C2 hereto annexed.
be enveloped together in strong paper, and Sc
cureIy fastened, and the packet plainly inscribed
with the wo,d Registered" OR "Rekon,meade-
ras," and placed in the mail. .g --..s.. b.!
The blank in the registered letter list for ex-
pressing the number of registered articles shall
be filled in letters and figures expire sing the
number. In case no registered articles are sent,
the proper blank of the letterbiil shall be filled
with the word "NlhiE,o or "Niln .sI ~ !. .as
ARTICLE 6. l..
The register-lists di patched shall be retained
by the receiving Office, which office shall acknow-
ledge by the first mail the receipt of the regis
tered articles numel ically, from NJ to No.
If the velifcation by the exchange office dis
close error of any kind in the registerlist, it
shall be also by the first mail notified to the dis.
patching office.
AETIoLE7
The two administrations mutually engage to
take all needful measures for the careful trans
mission of registered correspondence, and for
pursuing it when lost; but it is understood that
neither assumes towards the other any pecunia-
ry responsibility in case of loss.
ARTICLE s.
All letters exchanged between the several Off.
ees shall indicate by stamp or writing thereon,
the office of origin; and the unpaid letters
changed shall also be stamped with the name
of the dspatching Office of exchange.
Correspondence fully paid to destination shall
be stamped in the United States Paid all"
and in Sweden "Frafh0.'
Registered articles shall be stamped "Regis-
tered'' in the United States, and "Rek0lame1tdte
rds'' in Sweden. .
Correspondence inSuffieienlly paid shall be
paid and in Sweden 0ft.llssandig Jrdnkerdd,h
and The amount of deficient postage expressed
in figures tblack) on the face. -E+,. s- f.
Correspondence dispatched by direct line be,
tween the respective countries shall be stamped
"Direct serpice,'' or "Serpice direct" 81 II
When dispatched via England Orvia Germany
and Denmark, 1t shall be stamped to indicate
British or German and Danish transit.
ARTICLE o.
| The respective Postal Administrations are mu-
| tually to furnish each other with lists stating
| the foreign countries to which the foreign post.
age, and the amount thereof must be absolutely
lists are furnished neither country is to mail to
| the other any correspondence for foreign coun.
| tries beyond the country 10 which the mail is
sent.
| tries with which registered correspondence may
| be exchanged in the open mails between the sew
eral offices, and the conditions thereof.
| ARTICLE TO- -...
The respective exchange offices shall mark il
/ red ink, in the upper corner of the address, a
the right hand of prepaid letters, sent for iran
sit in the open mail, the amount of the extra ma
| tional postage due to the country through which
the same are forwarded; and in the same man
| ner and place, but in black ink shall mark Tho
| amount of the extra national postage due to tn,
forwarding country upon the unpaid letters sen
in transit.
| III. AETIoRE IL.
Articles under band which do not conform Il
the conditions mentioned in Article IL of tn
convention, which are in no part prepaid
shall be retained by the administration of origin
and shall remain subject to its disposal.
| ARTICLE IL.
Letters originating in, or destined for foreig
countries, sent in the open mail, for transi
through the United States, or through Sweder
and which,are iusnfficiently paid, shall be trans
nitted as wholly unpaid, and no account take
between the respective administrations of tn
amount prepaid.
ARTICLE 49,
Letters and all registered articles not delive
able, shall be respectively returned to the di
| patching administration at the end of ever
month, (see exhibits Dl and d. but all 9th,
articles of correspondence, not registered, whie
from any cause cannot be delivered, shall be r