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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. SEPT. 26, 1867. 1063 Convention between the General Post- Office of the Mailed States of America and the General Post- Ojiee of the Matherlands. Tm: undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respective gaps, gc, may, Governments, have agreed upon the following Articles for the ameliora- tion of the postal service between the United States of America and the pm-ties. Kingdom of the Netherlands: Amrcnn I. There shall be an exchange of correspondence between coms mdmm the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands by wbgughqggdg means of their respective Post Departments, and this correspondence shall embrace : 1. Letters, ordinary and registered. M 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 merchandise, 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. Anrxcnn II. The offices for the exchange of mails shall be on the cmu, {0,,,, part of the United States: change ot'm:.i1s· 1. New York. 2. Boston. On the part of~the Netherlands: The travelling office Moerdyk. 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 ofnce; and the two offices by agreement may at any time establish additional offices of exchange. Anrrcnm III. Each office shall make its own arrangements for the A,-mngemsnu despatch of its mails to the other office by regular lines of communica· m;¤P¤¤h of tion; and shall at its own cost pay the_expense of such intermediate transportation. It is also agreed that the cost of international ocean and Cost ct transterritorial transit of the closed mails between the respective frontiers P°“"‘“°“* 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. Aarrcnn IV. The standard weight for the single rate of inter- Weight tc: national postage and rule of progression shall be: •l¤¥,»;° ¤*• °Y 1. For letters, 15 grammes. p°° g°’ 2. For all other correspondence, mentioned in the second paragraph of the iirst article, that which the despatching office shall adopt for the mails which it despatches 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 thereoti 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 manitest mistake. ARTICLE V. The single rate of postage on the direct correspondence gumogwmgg 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.)