The Portland daily press., 1875-02-05
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ARTICLE L.
For the purpose of providing additional facilities
of INSTRUMENTATION between the United states
of America and Switzerland, 1t is hereby mutually
post-office in the United States and addressed to
Switzerland, and Swiss postal cards mailed at any
post-0fice in Switzerland and addressed to the
United States, the postage which shall have been
fully prepaid to destination at the
stated can henceforth be exchanged between the in
habitants Of the United States and Of Switzerland
But unpaid or insufciently paid postal cards will
not be forwarded in the mails between the two coun-
tries
ARTICLE ii.
Postal cards shall be forwarded exclusively by
means Of such direct steamer shall from time to
time be employed in the transportation Of the direct
German American mails between New York and
patments shall pay the entire expenses Of the inter-
mediate sea and territorial transport of the postal
cards which are sent from its territory.
ARTICLE III.
The postage on postal cards sent in each direction
l. At cents when sent from the United States Of
America.
2. At 10 centimes when sent from Switzerland
Each department shall retain to its exclusive use
the postage which it collects at the prescribed rates
ON the postal cards sent from its territory
ARTICLE w.
The regulations and instructions governing the
use and treatment Of postal cards in the domestic
mail of the United States and of Switzerland re-
spectvely, shall apply equally to the postal cards
mailed in either country and addressed to the other
country.
This agreement shall go into effect on the 1st Of
May, 1874 and shall have equal duration with the
postal convention of the 11th of October, 1861 and
and with the additional conventions concluded there
to.
Done in duplicate and signed in Washington the
21st April, 1774, and in Berne the S1st March, 1874
[sEAL.l JNO. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General Of the U. S.
[sEAL.l EUGENE NORD,
The Federal Post Department.
hereby approve the aforegoing additional articles
and in testimony thereof have caused the seal o.
the United States to be affixed.
US. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, April 21, 1874.
RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-NO. 81
JOINT RESOLUTION explanatory OF resolution
approved January 81, 1868, entitled "a resolution
limiting contracts for stationery and other supplies
in the executive departments to one year.
Lesolred 5u the Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatiues Of the United States Of america IN Con-
qress assembled, That the resolution approved Jan
uary thirty first eighteen hundred and sixty-eight
entitled "a resolution limiting contracts for sta
tionery and other supplies in the Executive De
partments to one year" shall not be held, or con,
locks and keys, postal cards postage stamps, news
paper wrappers, or stamped envelopes.
approved, March "a, 1874.
IRESOLUTION GENERAL NATURE-NO. o.I
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the termination
of the treaty between the United States and his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, concluded al
Washington, July seventeenth, eighteen hundred
and fifty-eight
+ Whereas, it is provided by the seventeenth arti
Gle of the treaty between the United States of Amer
ica on the one part. and His Majesty the King o
the Belgians, on the other, concluded at Washing
ton on the seventeenth of July ammo DOmini eight
cen hundred and fifty eight that the present treaty
shall be in force during ten years from the date Of
the exchange of the ratifcatons, ard until the ex
piraton of twelve months after either of the higt
contracting parties shall have announced to the 9th
er its intention ito terminate tie operation thereof
each party reserving to itself the right of making
such declaration to the other at the end OF the ten
wears above mentioned and it is agreed that, afel
the expiration of the twelve months prolongation
accorded on both SIDES this treaty and all its sipua-
tious shall cease to be in f0rce;" and
Whereas, it is no longer for the interest Of the
United States to continue the said treaty in force
Therefore,
ResoIred by the Senate and House of Rep, e.
sentatiUes Of the United States of america IN Con-
0ress assembled, That notice be given of the ter
mination of said treaty according to the provisions
of the said seventeenth article thereof for such ter
minaion and the President of the United States is
hereby authorized to communicate such notice to
the government of the Kingdom of Belgium.
Approved, June H. 1874.