Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 16.djvu/987

 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BREMEN. AUGUST 4, 1858. 953 Postal Ocnvcntion between the United »S7ates and Bremen. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES Agreed upon between the Post- Ojicc Department of the United States and August 4, T868- the Post- Office Department of the Hansealic Republic of Bremen, modifying the Arrangement entered into by said Post Departments in 1847 for the rccqzrocal Receept and Deliveqy of Mails to be conveyed by Z? gnit;d S¢ates and Bremen Lines of Steamers, direct, between New or an remenlzaven. Axurcnm I. The post·oi·Hcc of New York shall be the United States 0mm °f*¤· office of exchange, and Bremen the office of exchange of that Republic, mmm for all mails transmitted under this arrangement. Amxcnm II. The international correspondence, conveyed either by Rates of pmt- United States or by Bremen steamars, as hereinafter stated, between the “g°‘ United States or its ’1`errit,ories, and Bremen, will be subject to the following postage charges, viz. :- Postage on each letter or packet not exceeding half an ounce in weight. 10 cents Above half an ounce, and not over one ounce. . . . 20  " Above one ounce, but not exceeding two ounces . . . 40 “ And the postage will increase in this scale of progression, to wit: Ad- BMG ¤fi¤- ditional 20 cents for each additional ounce, or fraction 0F an ounce. °r°”°' Payment in advance shall be optional in either country. In shall not, Ijf¢P¤·y¤¤¤¤* however, be permitted to pay less than the whole rate ; and no account °Pt'°°”‘l' shall be taken of the prepayment of any fraction of that rate. ARTICLE III. All the states belonging to the German Austrian Pos- Cmain 0****** tal Union, respectively, are to have the advantage of the rate of ten :{;¥.°8?v2:::g€ cents, established by the preceding article, (second,) whenever their post- upon, &¤. age to and from Bremen, for letters to and from the United States, shall be reduced to the unitbrm rate of five cents, or less. On all correspondence for or from such of said states as shall not so reduce their rates, the charge between the United States and Bremen, by either of the two lines, will be fifteen cents the single rate. And optional prepayment, aregular progressive scale, &c. upon the same principles as in Article II. shall be admitted and observed. ARTICI.E IV. On all letters originating and posted in other countries G¤f¤¤i¤ Y¤¤’¤iS¤ beyond the United States, and mailed to, and deliverable in Bremen, or §3Q;‘f°°° b° originating and posted in countries beyond Bremen, and mailed to, and dcliverable in, the United States, or its Territories, the foreign postage (other than that of Bremen, and other than that of the United States) is to be added to the postage stated in Article II. or III. as the case may be. And the two P0st~OHicc Depamments are mutually to furnish each other with lists stating the foreign countries, or places in foreign countries, to which the foreign postage, and the amount thereoi must be absolutely prepaid, or must, be left unpaid. And until such lists are duly furnished,  USF gf<;°¤¤· neither country is to mail no the other any letter from foreign countries be- siax ° up youd it, or for foreign countries beyond the country to which the mail is sent. ARTICLE V. Newspapers not weighing more than three ounces each J;°‘;€g’;P°£é may be sent by the United States and Bremen sbcnmers when the whole gmggzmuf postage of two cents is prepaid thereon at the mailing office. The post-