Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-16
LAWS OF. THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
First Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
ARTICLE II.

AnilChE IL
The Post-Office of the United States
shall be granted the privilege of transit of
closed mails Though the Danish territory,
exchanged in either direction, to and from
Sweden and Norway, for a payment of
four shilling rigsmont, per thirty (3O)
grammes net weight of letters, and two
thirds SHILLING rigsmonts per forty (4O)
grammes net weight of prints, patterns and
samples of merchandise. Correspondence
exempt from postage, letters which cannot
be delivered, as well as money orders,
shall not be charged with any transit rate.
Recprocally, the United States office
grants to the office of Denmark the privil>
eye of transit of the closed mails eXchang-
ed in either direction between the latter
and any country to which the former may
serve as intermediary, by its usual means
of mail transportation, whether on sea or
land, and terms of transit shall be agreed
upon when the exercise of the privilege is
required.
ARTICLE II.
The postal accounts between the two
offices shall be stated and transmitted
quarterly ,and verified as speedily as posi-
BILE, and the balance found due shall be
paid in the coin of the creditor country.
The rate for the conversion of the money
of the two countries shall be one dollar for
The two offices shall, however, always be
at liberty to agree upon another rate for
the conversion.
ARTICLE ID.
Any ordinary correspondence wrongly
addressed, or wrongly sent, shall, without
delay, and registered correspondence of all
k .nds, as well as ordinary letters not deliv-
cradle fer any other cause than the afore-
said, within the issue of every month, be
mutually returned at the expense of the
originating office, All other correspond
ence which cannot be delivered shall re-
main at the disposition of the receiving
office.
If 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 dis
patching office.
ARTICLE IA.
When, in any port of either country,
closed mail is transferred from one vessel
to another, without any expense to the of
fee of the country where the transfer is
made, such transfer shall not be subject to
any postal charge by one office against the
other.
ARTICLE Is,
Official communications between the two
offices shall not be the occasion of any &C
counts OH either side.
ARTICLE 16.
The two Officess SHALL by mutual con-
sent, establish the detailed regulations
which the carrying into execution of the
articles included in this convention may
require. 49,
-. z ARTICLE II.
The present convention shall be carried
into effect on the day on which the two
offices shall agree, and shall continue in
force until one of the two contracting par
ties shall have announced to the other,
within the Issue Of a calendar year, its in
tention to terminate it,
ARTICLE Is.
The present convention is to be ratified,
and the notifications are to be exchanged
as soon as possible.
Done at Copenhagen, in duplicate origi-
nal, this 9TH day of November, 1871, and at
Washington this lst day of December, 1871.
TsEAL. JNO. A. J. CRESwELL,
I+N .H Postmaster General.
TSEAL. DANNESKJoLD SAMSoE.
I hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caus-
ed the seal of the United States to be af-
fixed.
[sEAL.1 US. GRANT.
By the President: n
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
Washington, December /, 1871. .9y ~
TRANSLATION.
We, Christian the Ninth, by the grace of
God King of Denmark, the Vandals and
Cloths, Duke of Slevig, Holstcin. Stor-
marn, Ditmarsh, Lauenborg, and Oden-
borg, have most graciously designed, on
our part, to ratify the foregoing convention
by our signature. &8ta IS
Done at our capital and residence, Co.
penhagen, on the Goth of March, 1872.
Under our hand and royal SEAL lin his
Majesty's name. -
[sEAI.] FREDERICK, =
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