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LdsUS of the United States
PASSED AT THE
First Session Of the Forty Third Congress.
POSTAL CONVENTION

King of Sweden and Norway to the United
States of America, in the name of his govern
ment and by virtue of the powers which he
has formally presented to this effect, have
agreed upon the following articles, to wit:
Article l. There shall be an exchange of cor
respondence between the United States of
American and the United Kingdoms of Sweded
and Norway. This exchange of correspond
ence shall embrace: L. Letters, ordinary and
registered. 2. Newspapers, books, prints OF all
kinds, Comprising maps, plans engravings,
drawings, photographs, Autographs, and all
other like productions of mechanical processes,
sheets of music, &c. and patterns or samples
of merchandise, including grains and seeds
Such correspondence shall be exchanged
whether originating in the United States and
destined for either of the United Kingdoms, or
vice UersG or originating in, or destined for,
such foreign countries to which the contracting
countries may serve as Intermediates.
Art H. The offices for the exchange of mails
shall be-on the part of Sweden-1. Goteborg;
2. The Travelling Post-0ffice No. |. between
Goteborg and Stockholm, 3. The Travelling
Post Office No. 2 between Malmo and Falkop-
ing. On the part of Norway. Christians
sand; 2. Christiania; 8. The Sea Post-ofice on
the Steamboat line between Hammerfest and
Hamburg; and on the part of United States
l. New York 2. Chicago. The respective Pos
tai Administrations are authorized, If circnm-
stances should require it, to discontinue any of
the offices designated fer the exchange of mails,
or to establish others in their place.
Art. III. The Post Offices of Swenden and
Norway shall make their own arrangements
for the dispatch of mails to the United States =;
and in like manner the Post-Office of the Uni
ted States shall make arrangements for the des
patch of mails to Sweden and Norway. The
mails shall be forwarded by regular routes of
communication; and each Office shall, at its
own cost, pay the expense of the intermediate
transportation (sea and territorial) of the mails
which it despaches to the other country. 1t is
agreed that the cost of the international, ocean
and territorial transit of closed mails, eXchang-
ed in either direction, between the frontiers of
the respective countries, shall be first betrayed
by that of the offices which shall have obtain
ed from the post-offices of the intermediary
countries the most favorable terms for such
conveyance, and any amount SO advanced by
one Office, for and on account of the other, shall
be promptly reimbursed.
Art. ~. The standard weight for the single
rate of postage shall bel. For letters, Is
grammes. 2. For all other correspondence
mentioned in the second paragraph OF the first
article, that which each Office adopts for the
mails which it dispatches to the other, adapt
ed to the regulations prescribed for such CORES
pondence in the despatching country. Each
office shall, however, give notice to the ether OF
the standard weight it adopts, and of any sub
sequent change thereof. The rule of progress
sion shall be an additional single rate for each
additional single weight or fraction thereof
The weight stated by the despatchng office
shall always be accepted, except in the case of
manifest error.
Art. V. The single rates of postage for letter
correspondence exchanged in direct mails be-
tween either of the United States, shall bel
By closed mail, via England, without regard to
the forwarding OF the correspondence, whether
to or from a Swedish or Norwegian sea port, CIR
through Germany-1. For letters from Sweden
ha TTpitaA Sfota (o\r prapoid in
Sweden, SO ore. (b) when paid in the United
States, IA cents. 2. for letters from the United
States for Sweden-(a) when prepaid in the
United States, cents. (b) when paid in Swe-
den, So ore. g. for letters from Norway for the
United States-(a) when prepaid in Norway,
II shilling. (b) when paid ia the United States
Is cents. 4. for letters from the United States
for Norway-(a) when prepaid in the United
States 10, cents. (b) when paid in Norway, Is
shilling. II. By direct regular steamship com
munication between ports in the United King
dsms, whether the port be Swedish or Norwe
gian on the one side, and ports in the United
States on the other side-l. for letters from
Sweden for the United Stetes-(a) when pre-
paid in Sweden, "a ore. (b) when paid in the
United States, cents. 2. for letters from the
United States for sweden--(a) when prepaid
in the United States, 6 cents. (b) when paid
in Sweden, SO ore. 3. for letters from Norway
for the United States-(a) when prepaid in
Norway, shilling. (b) when paid in the Uni
ted States, cents. 4. for letters from the Uni
ted States for Norway-(a) when prepaid in the
United States, cents. ~ when paid in Nor
way, 10 shilling. Insufficently prepaid let
---r-a-sl4all be charged with the postage for un
paid letters, after deduoting the prepaid amount
On all other correspondence mentioned in the
second paragraph of the first article, the rate
shall be, for the mails despatched by either
route, that which the despatching Office shall
adopt adapted to the regulations prescribed for
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try. But each Office shall give notice to the
other of the rate it adopts, and of any subse-
quent change thereof.
Art vi. The Atlantic sea rate on the cores
pondence sent in closed mails through England
shall not exceed cents per ounce for letter
mails, and 6 cents per pound for other CORES
pondence; nor shall the charge fer the sea-
conveyance thereof, between England and the
United Kingdoms, exceed 2 cents per single
letter rate, or cents per ounce net weight of
letter-mails, and cts. per pound for other cor
respondenee. 1t is also agreed that the entire
cost of the sea transportation between the
boundaries Of the respective countries, by any
direct line of steamships adapted to the con-
veyance of mails, and EN- ployed by the respec-
tive post-offices, shall not exceed cents for
each single-letter rate, or cents per ounce, net
weight, of letter mails, and cents per pound
of other correspondence. 1t is further stipula
ted that the Atlantic sea rate On the correspon-
uCuce seHL III Closed mails through Germany
shall not exceed cents per 80 grammes of let
ter, and 10 cents per kilogramme of other cor
respondence. 1t is also understood and agreed
that the Norwegian Post Office shall be REIN
bursed for the closed mails sent though Germa-
ny, which have been forwarded by the direct
steamboat line between Christanssand and
Hamburg, worked on Norwegian account, by q
sum corresponding to the Swedish and Danish
rate of transit for closed mails sent through
Sweden and Denmark.
Art VII. Ordinary letters may be sent pre-
paid or unpaid, but on registered letters, and
on ali other correspondence mentioned in the
second paragraph of the first article, prepay
ment shall be obligatory.
Art. VIII. Registered articles shall, in addi-
ton to the postage, be subject to register fee
of so ore in Sweden, of shilling in Norway.
and of s certs in the United States This fee.
as well as the postage, shall be prepaid Each
Office is at liberty to reduce this fee for the
mails it dispatches.
Art TX. Any correspondence may be regis
tered, as we'll the international as that origina
ting in or destined for other countries which
the post offices OF the contracting countries NAV
serve as Intermediates for the transmission of
such registered articles. Each Office shall no.
tify the other of the countries to which it NAV
serve as intermediary.
Art. X. The accounts on the international
correspondence, exchanged in either direction
Suall DC anu SetIleu on the following
basis, viz: l. Between Sweden and the United
States From the total amount Of information
al hostages and register fees for correspondence
between Sweden aud the United States, collect.
'sed 10 oweden the Sweden Postal Administra-
ton shall deduct the amount which, without
exceeding the highest rates agreed upon, has
been paid fer the conveyance of the mails to
the frontier Of the United States. From the to-
tai amount of international hostages and reg
lister ices, for correspondence exchanged be-
tween Sweden and the United States, collected
in the United States, the Postal Administration
of the United States, shall, in like manner de-
duct the amount which, without exceeding the
highest rates agreed upon, has been paid for the
conveyance of the mails to the frontier of Swe-
den, Tor Of Norway, in case Of conveyance by
direct steamship communication, or through
England.) OF the amount of the two net sums
thus obtained, Sweden shall receive one moietv
ard the United States the other. II. Between
Norway and the United States From the to-
tai amount of the international hostages and
register fees for correspondence between Nor
way and the United States, collected in Norway,
the Norwegian Postal Administration shall de-
duct the amount which. without exceeding the
highest rates agreed upon, has been paid for
the conveyance Of the mails to the frontier of
tie United States. From the total amount of
international hostages and register fees for cor
respondenee between Norway and the United
States, collected in the United States, the Pos.
tai Administration Of the United SHALL in like
manner, deduct the amount which, without ex-
oaadino ha highest rates aoread upon has aan