Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 16.djvu/990

 956 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BREMEN. Aucnsr 23, 1860. $°*“'¤ bm M ARTICLE IV. On the receipt of registered letters for delivery or dis. mmmd I"` tribution, at either of the respective exchange offices of Bremen or New York, the postmaster of such receiving; office will compare the letters with the bill, and endorse it "correct?’ if it is found so, or will note the error, if there be one, in the manner prescribed with regard to registered letters received from an inland post-otiice. He will then fill up the corresponding return bill, noting upon it whether correct or otherwise, and will see that it is returned by the iirst mail thereafter to the office of _ mailing, (New York or Bremen, as the ease may be ) mE°l§’)’;:°{:*]);°V ARTICLE V. Registered letters received at New York from Bremen, forwarded. or received at Bremen from New York, and destined for an inland postoffice, shall be forwarded in the same manner as other registered letters originally mailed at either oH·ice. Accounts. ARTICLIE VI. The United States and Bremen Post-Oilices shall reciprocally account to each o-ther upon such registered letters as shall be exchanged between them in the same manner as prescribed in the postal convention concluded on the fourth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three ; but the registration fee of five cents shall accrue to the United States Post-Oliice Department upon all registered letters sent from the United States to Bremen, and to the Bremen Post·Ollice Department upon all registered letters sent from Bremen to the United tates. In witness whereof; we have hereto set our names and aliixed the seals of our respective offices, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, at the city of \Vashington. [L. s.] JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster- General. [L. s.] R. SCHLEIDEN, Mnister Resident of the Republic of Bremen. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE Agreed upon between the Post- Office Department of the United States and the Post- Ojtce Department of the Hanscatic Republic of Bremen, mod- Wirzg Article IL ey" the Postal Convention of August 4, 1853. Bates ofpcst- Tun international correspondence, conveyed either by United States ’g°' or Bremen steamers, between the United States or its Territories and Bremen, will be hereafter 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 one ounce and a half§ . 30 " Above one ounce and a halt; but not exceeding two ounces, 40 “ And the postage will increase in this scale of progression, to wit: Additional ten cents tbr each additional half·ounce, or fraction of haltiounce. Payment in advance shall be optional in either country. It shall not, however, be permitted to pay less than the whole rate; and no account shall be taken of the prepayment of any fraction of that rate. In witness whereof, we have hereto set our names and affixed the seals of our respective offices, this twenty-third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, at the city of W'ashington. c [sen,.] J. HOLT, Postmaster- General. [san,.] R. SCHLEIDEN, Mnister Resident of Bremen.