The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
ARTICLE 1a.

The Post Departments of the United
States and of Belgium shall establish by
agreement, and in cOnfOI nifty with the
arrangements in force at the time, the
conditions upon which the two offices may
exchange in open mails the ecorrespondence
originating in or destined to other foreign
countries to which they may respectively
serve as Intermediates.
It is, however, always understood that
such correspondence shall only be charged
with the rate applicable to direct interna-
total correspondence, augmented by the
postage due to foreign countries and any
other tax for exterior service.
ARTICLE Il.
Each office accords to the other the priv
ilege of transit of the closed mails ex-
changed in either direction between the
latter and any country to which the for
mel may serve as Intermediary, by its
usual means of mail transportation,
whether on sea or land.
For such transit on its part, the United
States office shall receive as follows:
Il For transit across its territory: For
letters, IL cent per single letter rate; for
other articles, II cents per kilogramme,
net weight.
2 For transit across the waters of the
Atlantic Ocean: For letters, cents per
single letter safe; for other articles, II
cents per kllogr7lmmee, net weight.
3. For transit across the waters of the
Pacific Ocean: For letters, 10 cents per
single letter rate; for other articles, 20
cents per kilogTamIne, net weight.
For such transit on its part the office of
Belgium shall receive as follows:
For transit across its territory and the
English Channel: /, for letters, centimeS
per single letter nate; 2, for other articles,
40 centimes per kilogramme, net weight.
ARTICLE Is.
Mhe postal accounts between the two
effieeS shall be stated quarterly, trans
cable; and the balance found due shall be
paid to the creditor office either by ex-
change on London, or at the debtor office,
rs the creditor office may desire.
The Tlllp for the version of the
of the two countries shall De established
by common agreement between the two
offices.
ARTICLE 16.
When in any United States or Belgian
port a closed mail is transferred from one
vessel to another without any expense to
fer is made, such transfer shall not be sub
ject to any postal charge by one office
against the other.
ARTICLE IL.
Official communications addressed from
one office to the other shall not be the oc-
casiOn OF accounts between the two offices.
ARTICLE Is.
The two offices shall by mutual consent
make detailed regulations for carrying
these articles into execution; and modify
such regulations in like manner from time
to time as the cXigencies of the service
may require.
ARTICLE 19.
Letters wrongly sent, wrongly addressed,
or not deliverable for any cause. shall be
returned to the diSpatching office at its ex-
penSe for the return, if any shall be ineurr-
ed. Registered articles in the second par
a9r1ph of the first article mentioned shall
also be returned; other articles shall he
left to the disposition of the receiving of
flee. Any postages not collected upon the
correspondence returned, but which shall
have been charged against the receiving
| office, shall be deducted from the account.
ARTICLE 20.
Tn consideration nf fha concessions mo da
| by the United States Post Department, 1t
| is agreed that a reduction OF 20 per cent,
shall be made favor of the United States
| office from the charge of forty centimes
| per kilogramme established in Article XIV
| for the transit of the articles mentioned in
| the second paragraph of the first afticle o1
| this convention, add which shall be dis
| patched from the United States.
ARTICLE 81.
| From the time this Convention shall take
| effect, all former Conventions between the
| two offices shall cease to be in force, except
| for the purpose of closing the accounts
/ arising Hereunder.
This Convention shall take effect on the
| first day of january next. 1t shall contin.
| ne in force until Cancelled by agreement
of the two offices, or until one year from
the time when either office shall give
notice to the other of its wish to terminate
| the same.
! This Convention shall be subject to the
| approval of the Postmaster1ieneralo of the
| United States and of the Minister of Public
/ Works of Belgium.
Executed in duplicate at Brussels. this
/ 2lst day of August, in the year of our Lord
1867.
| IL. 81 JOHN A KASSON,
Sp. Conn. de-, DC.
| IL. ST. NJ. FASSIACX.
,Directoa. General of Railroads, Posts, ana
| IcIegTuEts.