The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-17

vana, Cuba and Bra sSantiago.)
Mails on Sundays will be closed the same as
on week days.
An Important Postal Order.
The following important order was signed by
the Postmaster General yesterday, and will be
issued by circular to all Postmasters tomorrow
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, May 8, 1875.
The treaty concerning the formation of Gen.
eral Postal Union, concluded at Berne, Oct. 8,
1874, between the United States of America, Ger
many, Austro- Hungary, Belgium, Denmark,
Egypt, Spain, France, Great Britain,
Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway,
the Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania,
Rrssia, Servia, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey,
having been duly ratified by the United States
on the Sth OF March, 1875, and the ratifcations
thereof by the several contracting States having
been duly exchanged at Berne, Switzerland, on
the Sd Of May, 1875, it is hereby ordered that the
uniform rates of postage to be levied and col.
lected in the United States on correspondence to
and from the whole extent of the Postal Union
embracing the above named countries, without
distinction, shall be as follows:
n. TUT PoPalu AoItoIs, ~ ceuts PeI AZ
grammes.
B. For unpaid etters, 10 cents per Is
grammes.
C. For postal cards, 2 cents each.
D. For newspapers, if not over ounces in
weight, 2 cents each.
E. For other printed matter, samples Of mer-
chandise, and all articles, other than newspapers,
enumerated in article of the treaty, 2 cents per
each weight of ounces or fraction thereof.
F. For the registration fee on all correspond
ence, cents.
G. No fee will be charged for a return receipt
in cases where receipt from the addressee is
requested.
Il. No additional tax will be collected in the
United States on the correspondence forwarded
within the Union by sea on routes of more than
800 nautical miles in length.
/. AS regards the amounts to be paid for the
territorial transit according to article 10 of the
treaty, the United States claims for herself
whenever the right of transit guaranteed by that
article is exercised, (even as regards her transit
lines of over $50 kilometres, and excepting only
her great overland railway lines between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, expressly reserved
as continuing to form the object of special ar
rangements with the post offices interested) the
minimum rate OF 2 francs per kilogramme of
letters, and 25 centimes per kilogramme of print
ed matter, ETC., and is ready by increasing the
transit rates, as permitted, to 4 francs and so
centimes respectively, to meet the wishes Of
those Departments of the Union which make the
same declaration in regard to the United States
transit correspondence.
Z. The freedom Of transit Of correspondence
in closed mails, reciprocally granted in the exist
ing Postal Convention between the Uni. ed States
and Switzerland, will be maintained.
L. The Union rates of postage hereinbefore
prescribed will be levied and collected on and
after July l, 1875, on the correspondence to and
from all the contracting States except France,
and on and after Januagy 1, 1875, on the CORE
spondence to and from Fr1npe.
NjEsHALL JEWELL,
Rpstmaster General.