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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH PRUSSIA. JULY 17 & AUG. 26, 1852. 963 Postal Convention between the United States and Prussia. Signed at July 1V wd Washington, 17th July, and at Berlin, 26th August, 1852. ARTICLES Agreed upon between the General Post- Ojiee of the United States of America and the General Post- Office of Prussia, jbr the reciprocal Receipt and Delivery of Letters and Packets, in closed Mails, to be conveyed through England under the 8th Article of the Postal Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, of the 156}:, December, 1848, and through Belgium as well in Virtue of a Convention between Prussia and Belgium, as between Great Britain and Belgium, the Benefit of the Latter enuring in this Respect to the United States by Virtue of the aforesaid Postal Treaty of 15th December, 1848. In Pursuance of and under the Authority above cited, the fodowing Details for such closed Maz'Zs between the United States and Prussia are hereby agreed upon, viz.:-- ARTICLE I. The post-offices of New York and Boston shall be the of5m ¤f¤¤— United States offices of Exchange, and Aachen (Aix—la·Chapelle) shall °h“”g°‘ be the Prussian office of exchange of all closed mails between the two countries, by means of the American and English, and the English and Belgian mail lines. Additional or different offices of exchange may hereafter be selected in either or both countries by mutual agreement of the two Post Administrations. ARTICLE H. The international correspondence, as liereinafter stated, Ram of1w3f- between the United States, or its Territories, and Prussia, including all “g°‘ the states now belonging to, or which may hereafter join the German- Austrian Postal Union, will be subject to the following postal charges, v1z.:— The United States postage on each letter or packet not exceeding half' an ounce in weight will be 5 cents. Thecharge imposed to meet the expenses of the transmission in closed mails between the two countries, including sea and British and Belgian transit postage, will be. . . 20 " The Prussian postage, · ... 5 " or what is practically equivalent thereto in Prussian coin. -——— 30 cents. Upon all letters originating and posted in one country and deliverable in the other, these rates of postage shall be combined into one rate, of which payment in advance shall be optional in either country. It shall not however be permitted to pay less than the whole combined rate. If the letter is of the weight of half an ounce or under, the combined rate will be 30 cents. Above half an ounce and not over one ounce, 60 cents. Above one ounce, but not exceeding two ounces, 35 1.20. And the postage will increase in this scale of progression, to wit: An Y¤¤Y°¤—‘*°d mmadditional 60 cents for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. _ ARTICLE III. The United States offices of exchange, in charging m¥¤3;€’g°¤Sh*¤ postage due to the post-offices of Prussia, shall uniformly make use of ' weights, having the American ounce for unit, with its divisions into half and quarter ounces; and the Prussian offices of exchange, in charging the postage due to the United States, shall uniformly make use of weights