The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-10-31
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oFFIcIAL.1
L0aUS Of the United States
PASSED AT THE
First Session of the FOrty-Tbird Congress.
DETAILED NEGOTIATIONS

DETAILED REG LAIIONh
agreed upon
between the Post Office OF the United otates ana
the Postal Administration OF Norway, Tor the
execution of the Postal Convention Oi the 10th
of March, 1873, between the United States OF
America and the Kingdoms Of Sweden and
Norway.
Article /. The American exchange offices oil
New York and Chicago shall make up mails
for the Norwegian exchange Offices OF Christi
anssand, Chr:stiana, Bergen, and the sea Post
Office, on the steamboat line between Hammer
fest and Hamburg.
Art. II. Each mail exchanged between the
two countries shall be accom- panied by Let
ter Bill, showing the hostages on each class OF
correspondence, the number Of register ices,
total weight Of correspondence, &c. The form
Of this Letter Bill shall follow the models Al
! and AZ, hereto annexed, and shall be consecu-
! lively numbered by the dispatching Office dur
! ing each quarter of the calendar year. The re-
ceiving Office shall acknowledge lis receipt by
! the next dispatch.
| Art. Ill. The exchange office shall divide the
correspondence which they dispatch into
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-Bill
Art ~. When more than single rate is
chargable upon any letter or other article the
number of rates to which il is subject shall be
indicated by the dspatching Office by figure
| in the upper left corner OF the address.
Art. V. Registered correspondence shall be
! described in a register list following the mod
els 81 and BIZ hereto annexed. Ali registered
letters and the register list shall be eHyeloped
together in strong paper and securely fastened,
and the packet plainly inscribed with The
word Registered or "kegistrerct,' aud placed
| in the mail. The blank in the Registered Let
| ter List for expressing the number OF register
ed articles shall be filled IN letters aud figures
expressing the number. la csse no registered
ARTICLES are sent, the proper blank o The Letter
Bill shall be filed WITH the word MINI
! Nil"
Art. VI The register lists dispatched shall
be retained by the receiving Office, which office
shall cknow ledge, by the first mail, the rece pit
of the registered articles numerically from o.
- to No. -. If the ver6cation by the ex
change Office disclose an error of any-kind, in
the register list, it shall be also by the first
mail notified to the dispatchiDg Office.
Art. VII. The two Administrations mutually
engage to take all needful measures for the
careful transmission Of registered correspond
| ence and for pursuing it when lost, but 1T is
derstood that neither assumes towards the other
any pecuniary responsibility in case OF loss.
Art. VIII. All letters exchanged between the
two countries shall indicate by stamp or wri-
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 Norway Franco" Regis
tered articles shall be STAN ped "Regisiered" III
the United States, aud "Anbeialet in Norway.
Correspondence insuficiently paid shall be
stamped in the United States "Insuficiently
paid and in Norway "Utilstrakkeligt frank
eret," and the amount of deficient postage ex
pressed in figures (black) on the face. Cores
pondence dispatched by direct line between
the respective countries shall be stamped ''Di
, rect service" or "Service direct" When dis
patched via England via Germany. it shall
be stamped to indicate British or German tran
sit.
Art TX. The respective Postal Administra
tons mutually to furnish each other with
: lists stating the foreign countries to which the
foreign postage, and the amount thereof, must
, be absolutely prepaid be left unpaid );
I until such lists furnished neither country
S is to mail to the other any correspondence for
foreign countries beyond The country to which
t the mail is sent. Such lists shall also indicate
D the foreign countries with which registered cor
V respOndence may be exchanged in the open
mails between the several offices and the con
ditIons thereof
, Art X. The respective exchange Office shall
mark in cred ink in the upper corner of the
address at the right hand, of prepaid letters
, sent for transit in the open mail the amount of
the extranational postage due to the country
4 through which the same are forwarded and in
= the same manner and place but in "back ink"
shall mark the amount of the extranational
e 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
XI of the convention or which are in no part
prepaid, shall be retained by the Adminstra-
ton of origin, and shall remain subject to its
disposal
Art. XII. Letters originating in or destined
for foreign countries, sent in the open mail for
transit through the United States or through
Norway, and which are insu ficiently paid
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and
no account taken between the respective AID
ministratOns of the amount prepaid.
Art. Kill Letters and all registered articles
, not deliverable shall be respectively returned
, to the dispatching Administration at the en-
of every month (see exhibits CT and CO. But
all other articles of correspondence not regis
a tered which, from any cause cannot be deliver
) ed, shall be retained at the disposition of the
receiving country. The unpaid hostages on tn
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
inally entered. The expense of transit of un-
paid correspondence which has been TRANSPORT
ed by either Administration in closed mails
and shall be returned to the dispatching office
as not deliverable shall be deducted from the
original amount charged for transit upon a de
claration OF the amount by the Office claiming
the deduction. No charge shall be made BY
D either Administration for the transit of CORES
pondence returned as not deliverable
Art. XIV. All CORES pondence wrongly adj
, dressed or missent shall be returned without
I 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 verfcaton the original entries of the
Letter Bill relating to such Jurisprudence
The articles OF a like nature addressed TO per-
sons who have changed their residence shai be
mutually forwarded or returned, charged with
the rate that would have been paid at the first
destination.
Art XIV. The dispatching exchange office
shall state on the Letter Bills (for the convent
ence of the transit accounD the exact number
OF single rates and weight of letters and the
total weight of the other correspondence which
shall be dispatched in closed mails by the Brit
sh German 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 insufficientlv
paid letters shall be computed in the money of
the receiving Office. The reduction of these
moneys shall be effected in the General Ac
counts at the rate of 112 skillings of Norway
for one dollar of the United States In enter
ing on the Letter Bills the International nosta
ges on the partly paid letters in the money of
the receiving office, and the foreign charges in
Ihe money OF the dlspatchlng office, the cent of
the United States shall be considered as the
equivalent of II shilling of Norway. tits else
understood that the Quarterly Accounts shall
be paid respectively in coin and in the denom-
nations of the money of the creditor Office.
Art: XVII. The Quarterly Accounts men,
toned in Article XIII Of the Convention shall
be prepared by the respective Postal Admins
trations: They shall be based upon the ac-
| knowledgments of receipt, and shall respec
| lively be prepared according to the models DI
and DE- hereto annexed. A recapituation of
these accounts, showing the deinitive result.
alike for the debit and the credit shall be pre-
pared by the United States Office according to-
the form hereto annexed and marked n; and
shall then be transmitted with the Quarterly
Accounts on which it is based, for the exami-
nation of the other Office. Done in duplicate
and signed at Washington the 18th june 1873
and at Christiania, the 3lst May, 1873.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
| oo, estmaster-General.
OeV' 9l'--lt. W. JOHANSEN..