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 1064. POSTAL CONVENTION WITH THE NETHERLANDS. SEPT. 26, 1867. . n letters from the Netherlands, 40 cents (Dutch.) WNW ohm-  gn all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph 'of the first article, the rate shall be, for the mails despatched, that wlnph the despatching office shall adopt, adapted to the convenience and habits of its interior administration. But each office shall give nouce to the other of the rate it adopts, and of any subsequent change thereofil _F¤·¤¤ Wh¤¤ Anrxcrn VI. Whenever a regular line of steam communication, · %?:°,§i:f,“:, ,,_ acceptable to the two offices, may be employed directly between any port tablished. 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 foreach kilogram of other correspondence 10 cents (U. S. ;)4in that case it is agreed that the international single letter rate of postage by such line shall be reduced to 10 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 effect. Ijrspsymtmt ARTICLE VII. The prepayment of postage on ordinary letters shall °P“°““‘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 Anrxcnn VIII. It, however, the postage on any correspondence
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not suglsichtly destination, charged with the deficient postage, adding full amounts instead vid- 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 offices, but shall be retained to the use of the collecting office. Registered ARTICLE IX. Registered correspondence shall, in addition to the ¤¤¤‘¤¤l><>¤d¤¤<>¤· postage, be subject to a register fee, not exceeding 10 cents (U. S.) in the United States, and not exceeding 25 cents (Dutch) in the Netherlands; and this fee shall be always prepaid. What corre- Amrcnm X. Any correspondence may be registered, as well inter- %l;<>;d:;¤t<;:1¤¤7 national correspondence as that originating in or destined for other coun- Etries to which these two administrations may respectively serve as intermediaries_ in either direction for the transmission of such registered articles. Each Department shall notify the other of the countries to which it may thus serve as intermediary. pulsfor regu- Anricnn XI. Accounts between the two officcs shall be reculated l¤¤°¤ of ¤°· on the following basis: From the total amount of postarres and ifevister ' fees collected by each office ou letters, added to the totalcamount of? prepaid postages and register fees on other correspondence which it despatches, the despatching 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 betweenthe two officcs, in the proportion of three·fifths to the United States oillce and two·fifths to the office of the Netherlands. fogtpgplgtlplngf Anricnn XII. The correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph wm;;umc¤_ of the first article shall be despatched under regulations to be established by the despatching olhce; but always including the followinv: 1. _No packet shall contain anything which shall be closead against inspection, nor any written communication whatever, except to state from whom or to whom the packet IB sent, the numbers and the prices placed upon patterns or samples of merchandise. · 2. No packet. may exceed two feet in length or one foot in any other dimension. or the equivalent in Dutch measurement. 8. Neither office shall be bound to deliver any article the importation