Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-02-27
Approved, January 20, 1874.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES OF AGREE
MENT

Between the Post Department ofthe United
o.a.t' 90 ~ America and the Post Depart
liIent " 'ne "er t 10, Empire, establishing
an exchange of Postal Cards between the
two countries.
ARTICLE !. For the purpose of proyid-
ing additional facilities OF mail communi-
cation between the United States or Amer-
ca and the German Empire, II Is hereby
mutually agreed that United States postal
cards mailed at any post office in the Unit
ed States and addressed TO Germany, and
German postal cards mailed at any post Of
fee in Germany and add essed to the Unit
ed States, the postage on which shall have
been fully prepaid TO destination. at the
rates hereinafter stated, can henceforth be
exchanged between the inhabitants Of the
United States and of Germany. But I'M
paid or insutficientiy- paid postal cards will
not bs forwarded in the mails between the
two countries.
ARTICLE 3 Postal cards shall he for
warded exclusively by means of such d.
rect steamers rs shall from time to time he
employed in the transportation of the di-
rect German-American mails. Each of the
two post departments shall pay the entire
expenses OF the sea transport for the postal
cards which are sent from its territory.
For the purposes OF this article, the charge
for the sea transportation across the Allan
tic of the postal cards sent by direct steam
ers from the United States 20 Germany, is
fixed at one cent an ounce, (avoirdupois, }
net weight.
ARTICLE 3. The postage on postal cards
sent in each direction is fixed as follows:
/. At 2 cents when sent from the United
States of America.
.. At slbergroschen when sent from
Germany.
Prepayment thereof TO be made by afIix-
ing to each United States postal card an or
binary one cent postage stamp in addition
to the SlamD nriDtcU or iInDrpSSp1 on %
card.
Each department shall retain to its ex-
elusive use the postage which it collects, at
the prescribed rates, on the postal cards
sent from its territory.
ARTICLE 4. The regulations and instruc-
tons governing the use and treatment of
postal cards in the domestic mails of the
United States and ofGermany, respectively,
shall apply equally to The postal cards
mailed in either country and addressed to
the other country.
ARTICLE 5. The regulations in tue fore
going articles shall, in like manner apply
to the postal cards which are exchanged.
through the medium Of the German mails
between the United States of America on
the one side, and the Empire of Austria
Hungary and the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg on the other.
ARTICLE g. This agreement shall 60 into
effect on the lst OF December, 1873. and
shall have equal duration with the postal
convention OF list October, 1867, and with
the additional conventions concluded there
TO.
Done in duplicate and signed in Wash
ington the 18th November, 1878, and in
Berlin the 3lst October, 1873.
JEO. A. j. CRESSWELL, [L.s1
Postmaster General Of The United States.
STEPHAN, IL. S.
Director General Of Posts Of Germany.
hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caus-
ed the seal of the United States to be affix-
ed.
L. s. U. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, November Is, 1873.