The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-03-25

! Letters wrongly sent, wrongly addressed, or not
deliverable for any cause shall be returned to the
dspatching Office at its expense for the return any
! expense shall be incurred. Registered articles in
the second paragraph of the first article mentioned
shall also be returned in like manner Other ar
tces shall be left to the disposition of the receiving
office.
Any postages not collected upon the correspop-
dence returned which shall have been charged
against the receiving Office, shall be deducted from
the account.
ARTICLE 49,
This convention shall take effect from and on the
IL day of July, 1873. 1t shall be continued in force
-4til one year from the time when any of the Gov
ernments of the respective countries shall have
given notice of its wish to terminate the same. II
is to he ratified and the ratifcations are to be ex-
| changed as soon as possible. @
Done in duplicate original at the city of Washing
ton, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our
] Lord one Thousand eight hundred and seventy
three. JNO. a. j. CRESWELL, [sEAL.l
Postmaster-General.
hereby approve the foregoing convention, and
in testimony thereof have caused the seal of the
United States TO be affixed. [. S. GRANT. :
| By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
Washington, March Is, 1878.
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We, Oscar, by the grace of God King of Sweden,
Norway, the Goths and the Yandas, make known
that whereas, We and the United States Of America
have found it expedient and necessary to enter uo
negotiations having for their object the conclusion
! of postal convention, and our Minister, duly al-
/ thoriZed for that purpose having. the 18th day
ter-General of the United States established, con-
cluded, signed, and with his seal provided con-
vention, word for word as follows:
(See Convention abOve)
Therefore We have desired TO ratify, approve,
and accept the convention concluded, with all its
! articles paragraphs, and clauses, and We do by
these presents, in the most express terms, ap-
| prove, accept and ratify the same; and We will
sincerely and honestly uphold and fulfill the fore
going convention and all its articles, paragraphs,
and clauses.
In witness whereof We have, with our own hand,
signed, aud caused the same TO be confirmed by our
/ royal seal.
Done at Stockholm Castle, on the 10th day of the
month of May, in the year after the birth of our
Lord and Savior, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three. OSCAR [sEAL.l
! o. NJ. BJORSsTJERNA.
| The undersigned having met together for the
purpose of exchanging the ratifcatiOns of the
vention concluded at the city of Washington on
the 10th day of March, in the year of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, between
His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and
tue United States of North America, concerning
the exchange of correspondence between the Uni
ted States of North America and the United King
doms of Sweden and Norway, and the respective
Publications of the said convention having been
crefully compared and found to agree exactly one
with the other and both with the original Of the
Sdlu COuYentlOD, the exchange mas InlS Qay Deen
effected in the usual form. ..
In witness whereof the undersigned have signed
the present certificate of exchange and have affixed
thereto the seals of their arms.
Done at Stockholm the 2eth day of May, 1873.
c. G. ANDREWS. [sEAL.l
o. NJ. .BJORNSTJERNA. [sEAL-l
Detailed regulations agreed upon between the Post
Office of the United States and the Postal Admin
isratiOn of Sweden for the execution of the con-
ventiOn of the 18th of March, 1873, between the
United States of America and the Kingdoms of
Sweden and Norway.
ARTICLE !.
The American exchange offices of New York and
Chicago shall make up mails for the Swedish ex-
change offices of Goteborg, the travelling post-ofce
No. between Goteborg and Stockholm, and the
travelling post-cfice No. between Malino and
Falkoping
The latter shall make up mails for the exchange
offices of New York and Chicago. ...s
Table A, hereto annexed, indicates the cOrrespon-
dence to be distributed to each exchange Office.
ARTICLE ..
Each mail exchanged between the respective
offices shall be accompanied by letter-bill, show
ing the postages and the charges of transit the
fees, &C., accrung to each Office upon the different
kinds of correspondence.
The form of this letter-bil shall follow the models
B and b 2, hereto annexed, and shal be consecu-
lively numbered by the dispatching Office during
each quarter of the calendar year.
The receiving office shall acknowledge its receipt
by the next dispatch.
The exchange offices shall divide the correspon-
dence which they dispatch into suitable number
of separate packages according to the letter-biil
Each of these packages shall bear the proper
etiquette end numbers corresponding TO the letter
bill.
ARTICLE 4.
When more than a single rate is chargeable upon
any letter other article, the number of rates 10
which il is subject shall be indicated by the dis
patching office by a figure in the upper left
corner of the address.
ARTICLE S.
Registered correspondence shall be described in u
register-list following the models and here
to annexed.
All registered letters and the register-lst shall be
enveloped together in strong paper, and securely
fastened, and the packet plainly inscribed with the
word Registered" 4" or ''LekOmnenderas,' and placed
in the mail.
The blank in the registered-letter list for ex-
pressing the number of registered articles shall be
filed in letters and figures expressing the number.
In case no registered articles sent, the proper
blank of the letterbill shall be filed with the word
".NibH," or "N."
ARTICLE 6.
The registcrlists dispatched shall be retained by
by the first mail the receipt of the registered ar
ticles. numerically, from No. to No.
If the verifca;ion by the exchange office disclose
error of any Kind in the regster-st, it shall be,
also, by the first mail, notified 10 the dspatching
Office.
ARTICLE =
The two administrations mutually engage to take
oil Geedful measures for the careful transmission of
when lost but it is understood that neither as
sumes towards the other any pecuniary response
bility in case of loss.
ARTICLE s.
All letters exchanged between the several offices
shall indicate by stamp writing thereon, the Office
| of origin; and the unpaid letters so exchanged
shall also he stamped with the name of the dis
patching office of exchange.
Correspondence full paid TO destination shall be
stamped in the United States "PGid ALL" and in
| Sweden "FrdnkO."
Registered articles shall be stamped "RegisteTed'
in the United States, and "RekommenGeras" in
! Sweden.
| Correspondence insuficently paid shall be stamp
ed in the United States "InsIfeientiy paid" and in
Sweden "0fuiistdndg 9 frdnkerdd," and the amount
of deficient postage expressed III figures, (blacR on
| the face.
Correspondence dispatched by a direct line be,
tween the respective countries shall be stamped
| Direct serUice," or "!Serrice direct"
| When dispatched via England or via Germany
and Denmark, it shall be stamped to indicate Brit
| ish or German and Danish transit.
ARTICLE 9.
| The respective Postal Administrations are mutu-
ally to furnish each other with lists stating the for
| eigu countries to which the foreign postage, and
the amount thereof must be absolutely prepaid, Oh
can be left unpaid, and until such lists are furnish
ed, neither country is TO mail to the other any cor
respOndence for foreign countries beyond the coun
| try to which the mail is sent.
Such lists shall also indicate the foreign coun-
tries with which registered correspondence may be
| exchanged in the open mails between the severa
Offices, and the conditions thereof.
ARTICLE 10.
| The respective exchange offices shall mark, in
sd ink in the upper corner OF the address, 1T the
rghthand, of prepaid letters sent for transit In the
open mail, the amount of the extranatiOaal post
age due to the country through which the same are
forwarded; and in the same manner and place
but in ink, shall mark the amount of the ex-
tra-national postage due to the forwarding country
upon the unpaid letters sent in transit.
ARTICLE IL.
| Articles under band which DO not conform tC
the conditions mer toned in Article II of the Con
vention, or which are in part prepaid, shall bt
retained by the administration of origin, ana shal
remain subject to its disposal.
/ ARTICLE II.
! Letters originating in or destined for, tUreigJ
countries, sent in the open mail, for transl
through the United States, or through Sweden
and which are insufficiently paid, shall be trans
mitted as wholly unpaid, and no account taken be
tween the respective administrations of the amOun
prepaid.
ARTICLE l3.
Letters and all registered articles not deliverable
shall be respectively returned TO the dispatch!ns
administration at the end of every month, (se3 ex
hibits ID and - but all other articles OF CORES
pondence not registered, which from any cause
cannot be delivered, shall be retained at the dlspo
sition of the receiving country.
The unpaid pOstages on the letters so returned
shall be deducted from the account against tn
office originally charged Herewith.
The prepaid pOstages on the letters so returned
shall remain in the account originally entered.
The expense of transit of unpaid Correspondence
which has been transported by either administration
in closed mails, and shall be returned to the dls
Matching office as not deliverable, shall be deducted
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