New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-23

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| fifteenth of March, 1873, between the
United States Of America and the King
detns Of Sweden and Norway.
ARTICLE 1.
The American exchange offices of New
York and Chicago shall make up mails for
the Swedish exchange offices of Goteborg,
the travelling pOsto:6ce No between Cote
| borg and Stockholm, and the travelin 9
postotfice No. , between MalmO and Fal-
koping.
The latter shall make up mails for the
exchange offices OF New York and Chicago.
Table A, hereto annexed, indicates the
correspondence to be distributed to each
exchange office.
ARTICLE II.
Each mail exchanged between the respec-
tive offices shall be accompanied by let
ter-b bill showing the pOstages and the
charges of transit, the fees, etc, accruing
to each office upon .he different kinds OF
correspondence
The form of this letter bill shall follow
the models Bl and b., hereto annexed, and
shall be consecutively numbered by the dis
patching Office during each quarter Of the
calendar year
The receiving office shall acknowledge its
receipt by the next dispatch,
ARTICLE III.
The exchange offices shall divide the cor
respondence which they dispatch into Il
suitable number Of separate packages, ac-
cordiEg to the letter bill.
Each OF these packages shall bear the
proper etiquette and numbers correspond
ing to the letter bill.
ARTICLE ".
When more than a single rate Is charge
able upon any letter or other article, the
number Of rates to which it is subject shall
be indicated by the dispatching office by
figure IN the upper lett corner OF the ad
dress.
ARTICLE !.
Registered correspondence shall be de-
scribed in register list, following the
models Cl and c. hereto annexed.
All registered letters and the register list
shall be enveloped together. in strong pa
per, and securely fastened, and the packet
plainly inscribed with tie word regis
tered" OF '.rekommenderas,' and placed in
the mail.
The blank in the registered letter list for
expressing the number OF registered articles
shall be filled in letters and figures express
ing the number. In case no registered arti-
cles are sent, the proper blank OF the letter
bill shall De filed with the word "nihil," or
"rii"
ARTICLE VI.
The register lists dispatched shall be re-
tained 10y the receiving office, which office
shall acknowledge by the first mail the
registered articles, numerically. from No. -
to No. -.
If the verification by che exchange office
disclose an error of any kind in the register
receipt of the list, it shall be, also by the
first mail. notified to the dispatching office.
ARTICLE WI.
The I've administrations mutually engage
to take all needful measures for the careful
transmission of registered correspondence,
and tor pursuing 1t when lost; bat 1t IS IN
derstood that neither assumes toward the
other any pecuniagy responsibility IN case
OF loss.
ARTICLE r1Ig.
All letter. exchanged between TIE ses-
eral offices shall indicate by stamp or Writ
ing thereon the Office of origin. and the IN
paid letters so exchanged shall also be
stamped with the name of the dispatching
office OF exchange.
Correspondence fully paid 70 destination
shall be stamped in the United States paid
all and in Sweden '.tranko.'
Registered articles shall Hs stamped
"registered' in the United states. and re.
kommenderas' in Sweden.
Correspondence insufiiciently paid shall
be stamped in the United States Insult.
Cleutiy pdIu, anu III iSNeUtu OlullsUduulS
trankerad,' and the amount OF deficient
postage expressed in figures Folask) on the
tace.
Correspondence dispatched Sy direct
line between the respective countries shall
be stamped ''direc. .esvice.' or service di-
rect"
When dispatched via England o. via Gsr-
many and Denmark. !. email be stamped te
indicate British cg S'evnas sud Danish
transit.
aEZSCsE.So
The respective postal administrations ere
mutually 10 furnish each other with lists
stating the foreign countries to which the
foreign postage. and ele amount thereof
must be absolutely prepaid. or can be left
unpaid. and until such lists are furnished
neither country is to mail to the other any
correspondence for foreign countries be-
gond the country to which the mail is sent.
Such lists shall also indicate the foreign
countries with which registered correspond
ance may he exchanged in the open mails
between the sey.Ga. Us1ic. - s.aS the sacoS1S-
si0ns tle:.v:o
ARTICLE "
Tie respective exchange offices eHar
mark. in Scd ink. III the upper corner ct the
address. at the right hands OF prepaid lee.
ters sent for transit in the open mail, tie
amount of the extra national postage due 20
the couHtry through which the same are for
warded and in the same manner and place.
but in black ink. shall mark the amount OF
the extra national postage due TO the for
warding country upon the Sgyai% SetteSs
eegt III translts
ARTICLE ".
Articles under band which DO 4os con
form to the conditions mentioned in article
eleven of the convention, or which are IN
no part prepaid, shall be retsined by the
administration of orig in, and shall remain
subject to its disposal
ARTICLE XII.
Letters originating in or destined for for-
eign countries, sent in the open mail, Tor
transit through the United States or through
Sweden, and which are insutiicientlv paid,
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and
no account taken between the respective
administrations Of the amount prepaid.
ARTICLE XIII.
Letters and all registered articles not de-
liverable shall be respectively returned to
the dispatching administration at the end
of every month (see exhibits Dl and D2).
but all other articles OF correspondence, not
registered, which from any cause can not
be delivered, shall be retained at the dlsp9
sirion of the receiving country.
The unpaid hostages On the letters so re-
turned shall he deducted from the account
against the office originally charged there
with.
The prepaid hostages on the letters soye
turned shall remain in che sccouist IS
originally entered.
Tie expense of transe of unpaid CORES
pondendce which Eas been transported by
either administration in closed mails, ami
shall be returned 70 the dispatching office
as not deliverable, shall lie deducted from
the original amount charged for transit
upon declaration of the amount by she
office claiming the deduction. No chas&.s
shall be made by either administration Tor
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