The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-12-17
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hereby mutually ayr eed that United States pos
tai cards mailed at any postofice in the United
States and addressed to Switzerland, and Swiss
postal cards mailed at any postonica in Switz-
erland and addressed to the United States. the
postage Oil which shall have been fully prepaid
to destination, at the rates hereinafter stated,
can henceforth be exchanged between the III
habitants of the United States and OF awitzer-
land But unpaid OF insutliciently paid postal
cards will not be sorwartiea III the mails be-
tween the countries.
Article II.
Postal cards shall be forwarded exclusively
by means of such direct steamers as shall from
time to time be employed i'll the transportation
of the direct Germall-American mails between
New York and Bremen or Hamburg. Each OF
the two post departments shall pay the entire
expenses o. the intermedi;te sea and territorial
transport Of the postal cards which are sent
from its territory.
Article III.
The postage on POSTAL cards sent in each Iii
rection is fixed as follows
]. At two cents when sent from the United
States Of America.
2. AT 10 Confines when sent from Switzer-
land.
Each department shall retain to its exclusive
use the Postage which it collects at the pre-
scrbed rates on the postal cards sent from its
territory.
Article ".
The regulations and instructions governn y
the use and treatment of postal cards in the
domestic mail of the United States and of
Switzerland respectively, shall apply equally to
| the postal carts matted iii cit her country aud
| addressed to the other country.
| Article V.
| This agreement shall 30 into effect on the LIST
| of May, 1874. and shalt have equal duration
with the postal convention of Ii Octof:er, 1867
and with the additional conventions concluded
| thereto.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washington
2lst April, 1874, and in Berne the 3lst March,
1874. ~
| [sEAL.l JNO. A. J. CRESWEII,
| Postmaster-Genersl Of the U. S.
| [sEAI.l EUGENE NORD,
/ The Federal Post Department,
| hereby approve the foregoing additional 81
| ticles, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[sEAL] J. S. GRANT.
BY the President;
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State.
Washington, April 81, 1874.
[Ia EsoIUTIoN OF GENERAL NATURE-No. 8.
JOINT RE SOLUTION providing for the ter
millatOt OF the treaty between the Un.Iet
States and His Majesty the King Of the Bel
gians. concluded at Washington. July seven
teent, eighteen hundred and ffty-eight.
Whereas, it is provided by the seventeenth
article of the treaty between the United Stare
of America, on the ore part, and His Maiestl
the King Of the s,elgians, on the other part
concluded At Washington on the seventeenth
\ day OF July ammo Do,nin eighteen hundred
and fifty eight that 1.-THE present treaty shall
be in force during ten years fTaia the date o
the exchange Of the Publications, AID until thf
expiration OF twelve months after either OF tbs
high contracting parties shall have announcsi
to the other its Intention to terminate the op
GRAFTON thereof, each party reSerying to itsel
the right of making such declarations to thu
other at the end nf the ten years above men
toned and it is ayr,tsti thai, after The eXpi:l
ton eli the twelve months proiongation accord
ed on both si;.es, tits treaty and all its stipula
: lions shall cease to be in force J" and
Whereas, it is ne longer for the Interest o
the United States TO continue sila said treaty
in force Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentative OF the United States OF America il
Congress assembled That notice BE- giyet: o
the Termination CT sail treaty according 10 TIL
provisions of the sal. seventeenth Art clc there
| of for s;icf tern.i lion, an. the President o
the United States is hereby authorized IA com
m,nicat., such no.ice to the Government OF TIL
Kingdom OF Belgium.
Approved, June II, 1874.