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 958 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH HAMBURG. JUNE 12 & 30, 1857. lggts 12 ¤¤d 80. Postal Convention between the United States and Hamburg. Preamble. Tun undersigned, being duly authorized for that purpose, have agreed upon the following articles, providing for the reciprocal exchange of mails between the United States and the Hanseatic Republic of Hamburg, to wit : — Ottiees ofex- Amicus I. The post·office of New York shall be the United States ’;l’““ge *0 be office of exchanve, and Hamburg the office of exchange of that Republic, ew York and. O. . g,,mb,,,.g_ for all mails transmitted under this arrangement. Rates <>f post- Anrxcne II. The international correspondence, conveyed either by °g°‘ United States or by Hamburg steamexs, as hereinafter stated, between the United States or its Territories, and Hamburg, will be subject to the followinv postage charges, viz. :-· Postaoenon each letter or acket not exceedinv half an ounce · ° · 1 P ° 10 t 1n wewit,. cen s. Above hglf 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: Additional twenty cents for each additional ounce, or fraction of an ounce. Prepayment of Payment in advance shall be optional in either country. It shall not, P°s*’*8€ °P¤°¤al· 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. Bclcnfzlng to Airrronm III. All the states belonging to the German Austrian Postal Sluttyé, to have f established by the preceding article, (second,) whenever their postage to _ ¤ V¤¤¤*s¤° and from Hamburg, for letters to and from the United States shall be glg_tmt°’ wh°¤’ reduced to, the uniform rate of five cents or less. Ou all correspondence for or from such of said states as shall not so reduce their rates, the charge between the United States and Hamburg, by either of the two lines, will be fifteen cents the single rate. And optional prepaymept, a regular progressive scale, etc., upon the same principles as in Artic e II. shall be admitted and observed. Fgregzu ggsf;-I Anrtctn IV. On all letters ,originating and posted in other countries ¥0gge:m;°fe,_t:,,s_ beyond the United States, and mailed to, and deliverable in, Hamburg, or originating and posted in countries beyond Hamburg, and mailed to, and deliverable in, the United States or its Territories, the foreign postage, (other than that of Hamburg, and other than that of the United States,) is to be added po the postagp) stated in Article II. or III., as the case may be. And tie two Post- ffice Departments are mutually to furnish cog-;::;;`?;;';;? each other with` lists stating the foreign countries, or places in foreign furnished_ countries, to which the foreign postage, and the amount thereof, must be absolutely prepaid, or must be left unpaid. And until such lists are duly furnished, neither country is to mail to the other any letter from foreign phountrieis beyond it, or for foreign countries beyond the country to which e mai is sent. C°"’°SP°“d“°° It is further understood and avreed that no correspondence for or from for or from coun· . ° _ me, beyond countries beyond Hamburg shall be exchanged under this arrangement, éiambigg not to unless the rates of postage to and from such countries, via Hamburg, are u:;;? sj2F3i_ identically the same as the rates charged via Bremen, under the United less, &o. States and Bremen postal arrangements Newspapers. ARTICLE V. Newspapers, not weighing more than three ounces each, mailed in the United States and destined to Hamburg, or mailed in Ham-
 * 3:f:n mtu, Union, respectively, are to have- the advantage of the rate of ten cents