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 570 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. SEPT. 26, 1867. Rates 0fpost- 2. On letters from the Netherlands, 40 cents (Dutch.) the first article, the rate shall be, for the mails despatched, that which the despatching office shall adopt, adapted to the convenience and habits of its interior administration. But each office shall give notice to the other of the rate it adopts, and of any subsequent change thereoti _R¤*¤¤ wl¤¤¤ ARTICLE VI. Whenever a .regular line of steam communication, ggpgxminfs 6s_ acceptable to the two nilices, may be employed directly between any port tnblished. of the United States and any port of the North of Europe at such rates that the entire cost of transportation between the two frontiers shall not exceed for each single letter rate 5 cents (U. S.) and for each kilogram of other correspondence 10 cents (U. S. ;) in that case it is agreed that the international single letter rate of postage by such line shall be reduced to l0 cents (U. S.) from the United States and 25 cents (Dutch) from the Netherlands. And the two offices shall by common accord fix the time when this reduction shall take ettect. ifrepayment ARTICLE VII. The prepayment of postage on ordinary letters shall °Pt‘°"”l' be optional, subject to the conditions in article VIII. mentioned; but on registered letters; and on all other correspondence mentioned in paragraph the second of the first article, it shall be obligatory. Proceedings ARTICLE VIII. It; however, the postage on any correspondence “'h°“ P°?"‘g°“ shall be prepaid insufficiently, it shall nevertheless be forwarded to its are un md or. . not sutheteittly destination, charged with the deficient postage, adding full amounts instead Mid- of fractions of 1 cent (U. S.) or 5 cents (Dutch.) Upon the delivery of any unpaid or insufficiently paid letter, or of any other insufficiently paid correspondence, there shall be levied a fine in the United States not exceeding 5 cents (U. S.), in the Netherlands not exceeding 15 cents (Dutch.) This fine and also the deficient postage on all other correspondence than letters, shall not enter into the accounts between the two oflices, but shall be retained to the use of the collecting office. Ragiggcmd Aivrrcms IX. Registered correspondence shall, in'addition to the <><>¤¤<>¤P<>¤d°¤°°· postage, be subject to a register Fee, not exceeding 10 cents (U. S.) in the United States, and not exceeding 25 cunts (Dutch) in the Netherlands; and this fee shall he always prepaid. Whatcom- ARTICLE X. Any correspondence may be registered, as well inter- articles. Each Department shall notify the other of the countries to which it may thus serve as intermediary. Busts for regu- AR*1‘10L1·: XI. Accounts between the two officcs shall be regulated l;f;°*;8°Y 9*** on the tollowing basis: From the total amount of postages and register °tees collected by each ctlice on letters, added to the total amount of prepaid postuges und register {ccs on other correspontlence which it tlc· · spntches, tho de<patching office shall deduct the amount required, at the agreed rate, for the cost of the intermediate transit thereof between the two frontiers; and the amount of the two net sums shall be divided between the two officcs, in the proportion of tltrce-iittlts to the United States. officc and two-liltlts to the office of the Netherlands. Regulations Antrtcmc XII. The correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph respondonco. ,, _ _ ¤ _ hy the dcspatclnng office; but always including the following: 1. No packet shall contain anything which shall be closed against inspection, nor any written communication whatever, except to state from whom and to whom the packet is sent, the numbers and the prices placed upon patterns or samples of merchandize. 2. No packet may exceed two feet in length or one foot in any other dimension, or the equivalent in Dutch measurement. 3. Neither office shall be bound to deliver any article the importations
 * 86- 3. On all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of
 * t;°;d€;¤;2$¤Y national correspondence as- that originating in or destined tin- other coungtries to which these two administrations may respectively serve as intermediaries in either direction for the transmission of such registered
 * ‘QLd°“P“‘°l‘ °f of the tirst article shall be despatched under rerrulations to be establislied