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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. Snrr. 26, 1867. 569 Convention between the General Post- Office of the United States of America and the General Post- Office of the Lhtherlands. Tun undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respective Sgpg 2;;, 1861, Governments, have agreed upon the following Articles for the ameliora- tion of the postal service between the United States of America and the parties. Kingdom of the Netherlands: ',ARTICLE I. There shall be an exchange of correspondence between coms (mmm the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by mbssxlihwgod; means of their respective Post Departments, and this correspondence shall embrace: 1. Letters, ordinary and registered. ,,0 embrace 2. Newspapers, Book-packets, prints of all kinds (comprising maps, whatplans, engravings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, and all other like productions of mechanical processes, sheets of music, etc.,) and patterns or samples of merchandize, including grains and seeds. And such correspondence may be exchanged, whether originating in either of said countries and destined for the other, or originating in or destined for foreign countries to which these may respectively serve as intermediaries. Anrrcms II. The offices for the exchange of mails shall be on the Omgés ,0,. ex, part of the United States: change or mails. 1. New York. 2. Boston. On the part of the Netherlands: The travelling office Moerdijk. Each Post Department may at any time, after notice to the other, discontinue either of the offices of exchange on its side, always leaving one office; and the two offices by agseement may at any time establish additional offices of exchange. Anrrorn III. Each office shall make its own arrangements for the Ammgemsm despatch of its mails to the other office by regular lines of communica- ¥`°Y_h of tion; and shall at its own cost pay the expense of such intermediate mM1s' transportation. It is also agreed that the cost of international ocean and Cost of transterritorial transit of the closed mails between the respective frontiers l’°”“°‘°“‘ shall "be first defrayed by that one of the two Departments which shall have obtained from the intermediaries the most favorable pecuniary terms for such conveyance; and any amount so advanced by one for account of the other shall be promptly reimbursed. ARTICLE IV. The standard weight for the single rate of inter- Weight for national postage and rule of progression shall be: Slnsle mw °" 1. For letters, 15 grammes. p°s"lg6` 2. For all other correspondence, mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article, that which the despatching office shall adopt for the mails which it despatchcs to the other, adapted to the convenience and habits of its interior administration. But each office shall give notice to the other of the standard weight it adopts, and of any subsequent change thereotl The rule of progression shall always be an additional single rate for each additional standard weight or fraction thereof. The weight stated by the despatching office shall always be accepted, except in case of manifest mistake. Awrrcrn V. The single rate of postage on the direct correspondence Rgjgofpostgggl exchanged between the two administrations, subject to the reserve mentioned in article VIII., shall be as follows: 1. On letters from the United States, 15 cents (U. S.)