The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-07
[oFFIcIAL.1
L0sCS of the United States
PASSED AT THE
First Session Of the Forty Third Congress.


between the Post-office of the United States
and the postal administration of Sweden
tor the execution of the convention of
the 18th of March, 1873, between
the United States of America
and the Kingdoms of Swe-
den and Norway.
Art. l. The American exchange Offices of
New York and Chicago shall make up mails for
the Swedish exchange offices of Goteborg, the
travelling post-ofice No. l between Goteborg
and Stockholm, and the travelling post-ofice
No. 2 between Malmo and Falkopng. The lat
ter shall make up mails for the exchange offices
of New York and Chicago. Table A, hereto
annexed, indicates the correspondence to be
distributed to each exchange office.
Art. ii. Each mail exchanged between the
respective offices shall be accompanied by a
letter-bill, showing the hostages and the charges
of transit, the fees, &C., accrunig to each office
upon the different kinds of correspondence
The form OF this letter-bill shall follow the
models Bl and b., hereto annexed. and shall
be consecutive numbered by the dispatchng
office during each quarter of the calendar YEAR
The receiving Office shall acknowledge its re.
ceipt by the next dispach.
Art. Ill. The exchange offices shall divide
the correspondence which they dispatch into a
suitable number OF separate packages, accord
ing to the letter-bill. Each of these packages
shall bear the proper etiquette and numbers
corresponding to the letter-bll.
Art. Nv. When more than a single rate is
chargeable upon any letter or other article, the
number OF rates to which it is subject shall be
indicated oy the dispatching Office by figure
in the upper left corner of the address.
Art. V. Registered correspondence shall be
described in register-list, following the mod
els Cl and C2, hereto annexed. All registered
letters and the register list shall be enVeloped
tegether, IN strong paper, and securely fasten.
ed, and the packet plainly inscribed with the
word " Registered" or "Rekommenderas," and
placed In the mail. The blank in the register
ed-letter list for expressing the number Of reg
lstered shall be filed in letters and figures ex-
pressing the number. In case no registered
articles are sent, the proper blank of the let
ter-bill shall be filled with the word "Nihil,"
or "Nil."
Art. vi. The register list dispatched shall
be retained by the receiving office, which office
shall acknowledge by the first mail the receipt
OF the registered articles, numerically, from
No. - to No. -. If the verification by the
exchange Office disclose an error of any kind
in the registerlist, it shall be- also, by the first
mail, notified to the dispatching office.
Art. VII. The two administrations mutually
engage to take all neediul measures for the care
tul transmission of registered correspondence,
and for pursuing it when lost but it is under
stood that neither assumes towards the other
any pecuniary responsibility in case of loss
Art. VIII. All letters exchanged between the
several offices shall indicate by stamp or wr-
ting thereon, the office of origin; and the un-
paid letters so exchanged shall also be stamp
ed with the name of the dispatching Office OF
exchange. Correspondence fully paid to desti
nation shall be stamped in the United States
"Paid all, and in Sweden "Franko" Regis
tered articles shall be stamped Registered" in
the United States, and "Rekommenderas in
Sweden. Correspondence insufficiently paid
shall be stamped in the United States "Insuffi-
GENTLY paid" and in Sweden "Ofullstandig
frankerad," and the amount Of deficient post
age expressed in figures, (black) on the face
Correspondence dispatched by direct line be-
tween the respective countries shall be stamp
ed "Dlrect service" or "Service direct" When
dispatched via England or via Germany and
Denmark, it shall be stamped to indicate Brit
ish or German and Danish transit.
Art. *. The respective Postal Administra-
tons are mutually TO furnish each other with
lists stating the foreign countries to which the
foreign postage, and the amount thereof must
be absolutely prepaid, or can be left unpaid,
and untils such lists are furnished, neither coun-
try is to mail to the other correspondence for
foreign countries beyond the country to which
the mail is sent Such lists shall also indicate
the foreign countries with which registered cor
respondence may be exchanged in the open
mails between the several Offices, and the con-
ditions thereof
Art. X. The respective exchange offices shall
mark, in "red ink" in the upper corner of the
address, at the right hand, OF prepaid letters
sent for transit in the open mail, the amounto of
the extra-natlonal postage due to the country
through which the same are forwarded and in
the same manner and place, but in "black ink
shall mark the amount of the extranational
postage due to the forwarding country upon
the unpaid letters sent in transit.
Art. XI. Articles under band which do not
conform to the conditions mentioned in Article
e &l1n
prepaid, shall be retained by the administra-
ton of origin, and shall remain subject to its
disposal.
Art. III. Letters originating in, or destined
for, foreign countries, sent in the open mail,
for transit through the United States, or through
Sweden, and which are insufficiently paid,
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and no
account taken between the respective admins
trations of the amount prepaid.
Art. XIII. Letters and all registered articles
not deliverable shall be respectively returned
to the dispatchng administration at the end of
every month, (see exhibits D1 and DID, but all
other articles of correspondence, not registered,
which from any cause, cannot be delivered
shall be retained at the disposition of the re-
celving country. The unpaid hostages on the
letters so returned shall be deducted from the
account against the Office originally charged
Herewith. The prepaid hostages on the letters
SO returned shall remain in the account as orig
lnally entered. The expense of transit of UNI
paid correspondence which has been transport |
ed by either administration in closed mails, |
and shall be retured to the dspatching Office as
not deliverable, shall be deducted from the orig
inal amount charged for transit upon a decla- |
ration of the amount by the Office claiming the |
deduction. No charge shall be made by either |
administration for the transit of correspond
ence returned as not deliverable.
Art XIV. All correspondence wrongly adj |
dressed or misseDt shall be returned without
delay by the receiving Office to the exchange
office which dispatched it. The receiving Of
fee shall also correct, accordingly, in the col
umn of verifcation, the original entries of the
letter-bill relating to such correspondence
The articles of like nature addressed to per-
sons who have changed their residence shall
be mutually forwarded or returned, charged |
with the rate that would have been paid at the
first destination.
Art. XIV. The dispatchng exchange office
shall state on the letter bills (for the convent
ence of the transit accoun) the exact number
OF single rates and weight of letters and the to-
tai weight of the other correspondence which
shall be dispatched in closed mails by the Brit
ish or by the German and Danish transit
Art. XVI. 1t is understood that the accounts
between the two Offices shall be established on
the respective letter bills, in the proper money
of the dispatching office, but the international
hostages on the unpaid letters, or insufficently
paid letters, shall be computed in the money of
the receiving Office. The reduction of these
moneys shall be effected in the general accounts
at the rate of rixdaler, or 400 Of Sweden for
one dollar of the United States. In entering
on the letter bills the international hostages on
the partly paid letters in the money of the re-
ceiving office, and the foreign charges in the
money of the dispatching Office, the cent of the
United States shall be considered as the equiv
alent of ore Of Sweden. Il is also understood
that the quarterly accounts shall be paid re-
spectively in gold, and in the denominations of
the money of the creditor Office.
Art. XVII. The quarterly accounts mention
ed in article XIII of the Convention shall be
prepared by the respective Postal Administra-
tions. They shall be based upon the acknowl-
edgments of receipts, and shall res pectively be
prepared according to the models E and E2,
hereto annexed. recaptulaton of these ac.
counts, showing the defnitive result, alike for
the debit and the credit, shall be prepared by
the United States office according to the form
hereto annexed and marked + and shall til en-
be transmitted with the quarterly accounts on
which it is based .or the examination of the
l.