New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-16
t the Uuited States-l. New York;

OF the Uuited States-l. New York.
Chicago. -
The respective postal administrations al
authorized, if circumstances should r
qulre 1t, to discontinue any of the Office
designated for the exchange of mails, or i.
establish others in their place.
| ARTICLE III.
The postofices of Sweden and Norwa
snail make their own arrangements for til
dispatch of mails to the United States; an
IN like manner the postotiice OF the Unite
States shall make arrangements for the di
patch OF mails to Sweden and Norway tn
mails shall be forwarded by regular route
Communication; and each Office shall, a
its own cost, pay the expense of the inte
mediate transportation (sea and territorial
other country. 1t is agreed that the cost c
the international, ocean and territoris
transit OF closed mails, exchanged in eithe
direction, between the frontiers of the II
spectlve countries, shall be first defraye
by that one of the offices which shall hav
obtained from the postotfices OF the intel
medlary countries the most favorable term
LOT sucn conveyance, and any amount s
| advanced by one office, for and on accom-
OF the other, shall be promptly reimbursed
ARTICLE ".
! The standard weight for tie single rat
OF postage shall be:
l. For letters, fifteen grammes.
I. =. For all other correspondence mentione,
| in the second paragraph of the first article
! that which each Office adopts for the mail
which it dispatches to the other. adapted {:
| the regulations prescribed for such CORE
| spondence in the dispatching country. Eael
office shall. however. give notice to tn,
other OF the standard weight it adopts ant
| OF any subsequent change thereof
The rule of progression shall be an add
| tional single rate for each additional siugl,
weight or fraction thereof.
The weight stated by the dispatchins
office shall always be accepted. excep: il
the case OF manifest error.
|. ARTICLE V.
The single rate Of postage for letter cor
respOndenca exchanged in direct mails be
tween the United Kingdoms and the United
States shall be
!. By closed mail, via England. withou
regard to the forwarding Of the correspond
ence, whether to or from a Swedish Or Nor
wegian seaport, or through Germany
!. For letters from Sweden Tor the United
States
ta) When prepaid in Sweden. thir.y-siA
~ When paid in tie uni.e;; States. four
teen cents.
.. For letters from tue United States &c
Sweden
(a) When prepaid in the United States
nine cents.
~ When paid in Sweden. fifty-.ix ore.
3. For letters from Norway fog the United
,lD When prepaid in Norway. twelve
lb) When paid in the United States. fl:
teen cents.
4. For letters from the United States 10,
Norway
la) When prepaid n tie United States,
ten cents.
~ When paid in Norway. eighteen skill.
H. By direct regular steamship com.
Kingdoms, whether the port be Swedish or
Norwegian on the one side. and ports in the
United States on the other side
1. For letters from Sweden for the United
States
ta) When prepaid IL Sweden. twenty
four ore.
~ When paid in the tinted sta.e.. zine
cents.
.. For letters from the United States ior
Sweden
ta) When prepaid in .he Unite! States.
six cents.
tb) When paid in Sweden. :hirtv-si1 ore.
3 For letters from Norway 70 the United
States
IA When prepaid in Norway. eeven
shilling
tb) When paid in the United States. zine
cents.
T. For letters FROM the United sN.e, go-
Norway
tai When prepaid in she United States,
six cents.
~ When paid in Norwav. ten skliiog.
&nsutficiently prepaid letters shall be
charged with che postage Sor unpaid letters.
after deductlng the prepaid amount
On all other correspondence mentioned "a
The second para graph Of the first article the
rate shall be, for the mails despatched by
either route. that which the dispachins.
office shall adopt adapted 20 the regulations
prescribed for such correspondence in the
dispatching country. Bpt each office shall
give notice to Che other OF The rate il adopts,
and of any subsequent change thereof.
ARTICLE -.
The Atlantic sea Pate on che cHrsesDsn-
Gence sent in closed mails through England
shall not exceed six cents per ounce fer
letter mails, and SIX cents per pound for
other correspondence; nor shall the charge
for The sea conveyance thereof, between
England and the United kingdoms, exceed
two cents per single letter rate. or six cents
PEI ounce net weight Of letter mails. and
six cents peg pound foc otker CORES.
1t is also agreed THAT TIE entire COST of
the sea transportation between the bounda-
ries of the respective countries, %y any d.
rect line of steamships adapted to che con
veyance Of mails, and employed by the re
spect!ve pOstOtfices, shall noc exceed two
cents for each single letter rate, or six cents
per ounce, net weight, Of letter mails, and
six cents per pound Of otbes correspond.
ence.
IT is further stipulated that che Atlantic
sea rate on The correspondence sent in
closed mails through Germany shall not sx-
coed five cents per thirty grammes of let
ters, and ten cents per kilOgraume OF other
1t is also understood ana agreed that the
postotiice shall be reimbursed
for the closed mails sent through Germany,
which have been forwarded by the direct
steamboat line between Christanssand and
Hamburg, worked on Norwegian account,
BY a sum corresponding to the Swedish and
Danish rate Of transit for closed 4als sent
through Sweden and Denmark.
ARTICLE vIH.
Ordinary letters may be sent prepaid ~.
unpaid, but on registered letters, and on all
other correspondence mentioned in the sec.
md paragraph of the first article prep a.
Hent shall be obligatory
ARTICLE S;;2o
Registered articles shall. ia addition 20
he postage. be subject TO a register fee of
hirty ore in Sweden, of eight shilling in
Norway. and of eigh, cents in the Unitei:
states. This fee, as well as the postage,
hall always be prepaid. Each Office is a.
liberty to reduce this dee :os H.. asails ]:
dispatches.
ARTICLE tx
ANY correspondence may be registered.
Is well the International a that orlpin ATTN {,