The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

received in and forwarded from the United
States to New South Wales. shall be de
liyered in said colony free of all charges
what sCSever, and letters received in New
South Wales frOm~She United States adj
dressed to other colonies of Aust ralli., VIII
be forwarded to destination, subject to the
same conditions as are applicable to cor
respondence originating in New South
Wales and addressed to those countries.
ARTICLE6.
In the event of any of the Australian
colonies not agreeing with New South
Wales and New leland to contribute to
the maintenance of any line Of mail pack
cts plying between New South Wales and
New leland and the United States of
America, and subsidized by New South
Wales and New Iceland, the New South
Wsles post office may require the United
States post office not to forward by such
subsidized packets any mails. letters,
newspapers. or other articles addressed to
such colony, and the New South Wales
post Office may refuse to transmit TO their
destination all mails, letters, newspapers,
or other printed matter addressed 10 such
colony, and received in New South Wales
from the United States by such subsidized
packets, and may refuse to forward to
their destination by such subsidized rack
cts all mails, letters, newspapers or OF her
printed matter received in New South
Wales from such colony and addressed to
the United States Of America, or else
where.
ARTIcLE7.
The two Post DEPARTMENTS may by mu-
tual agreement provided for the trans
mission of registered articles in the mails
exchanged between the two countries.
The register fee for each article shall be
| ten cents in the United States and four
pence in New South Wales.
ARTICLES
The two Post DEPARTMENTS shall settle
| by agreement between them, all measures
of de;ail and arrangement required to
carry this convention into execution, and
i may modify the same in like manner from
| time time, rs the exigencies OF the seavice
may require.
ARTICLE o..
Every fully prepaid letter dispatched
| from one country to the other shall be
| plainly stamped with the words ''plid
! all, in red ink, on the right hand upper
corner of the address, in addition to the
date stamp of the office at which 1t was
posted: and on insufliclently paid letters
the amount of the deficient postage shall
be inscribed in black ink.
ARTICLE 10.
Dead letters, which cannot he delivered
from whatever cause, shall he mutually
! returned without charge, monthly. or as
frequently as the regulations OF the re-
spective offices will permit.
ARTICLE IL.
This convention shall come into opera,
fiOn on the first day of February. 1874. and
and shall be terminable at any time, on q
notice by either office of six months.
| Done in duplicate and signed in Wash
| ington the fifteenth dHy of january, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four
TSeaI.l JNo. \. j. CRESwELL,
Postmaster GPaernl Of the
United States.
| [SeaI.l SAUL SAMUEL
T0oStH.ItSt17 General of
Near South UIdles.
| hereby approve the afOregoing con
| vention, and in testimony thereof l have
caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
tSeai.l L. =. CRAM.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Screta1.y Of State.
WASHINGTON, january Is, 1874.
additional article to the reputation q
detail. and ordered eig7ted at Rd7is, No
renaL.er 2S. 1867, and concerning The e1
chd1fge 0f correspondence bettrcen Stritz
erlaad and the Uuited States Of 14nertca
In accordance with Article Is of thu
Postal Convention concluded at Berne
between Switzerland and the Unitet
States, dated October IL. 1861, the tw'
Administrations have agreed to replac'
Article Il of the Detailed Regulations {
NoVember %. 1851. re.atiVe to same Con
vention, by the following arrangements
SOLE ARTICLE.
It is agreed that the accounts between
. the two offices shall he respectively e>
tablished upon the letter-bills, in the mon
ey of the dispatching office, excepting
however, the International rates on uIl
paid or insufficiently paid letters. whicl
must be calculated i'll the money of til
country where such letters are delivered
AS far as concerns the fnternationa
rates, the reduction of the money shal
2 take place, in the general accounts, on tn
l basis OF frs. 5.l3c. for one deliar OF tn
United States.
: In marking the foreign postages upol
the letter-bills in the money of the dis
patching office, the cent OF the Unite
| States shall be considered as the equivs
; | lent of D centimes of Switzerland,
1t is also understood that the quarterl
/. acbounts shall be liquidated respectivel
! | in gold. of the denomination OF the cred
| tor office.
Signed at Berne the 9Th March, and a
Washington the Goth of OF March, 1863.
DUBBS,
! Chief Of The Department OF Posts.
! JNo. A, j. CREsw ELL,
! Postmaster General.