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 POSTAL CONVENTION-- DENMARK Nov. 7 & Dnc. 1, 1871. 905 Amrcnn IX. As to the correspondence originating in one country and destined for Each post-omcs the other, no account shall take place, and thus the postoffice of the *° "°“‘i** P°s*‘*g° United States shall retain the whole amount of postage collected in the collected °u’ M United States upon international paid correspondence forwarded to Donmark, and upon international unpaid or insufficiently paid correspondence received from Denmark ; and in like manner the Danish post-oflice shall retain the whole amount of postage collected in Denmark upon international paid correspondence forwarded to the United States, and upon international unpaid or insufficiently paid correspondence received from the United States. However, each of the two departments shall be at liberty- to claim Either country accounts to be settled when it appears that in one country for one year ****7 claim **1 there is levied twenty per cent more than in the other. If an account is °°°°um` claimed, it shall be regulated on the following basis: From the total amount of postages and register fees collected by each Basis of asofiice on letters, added to the total amount of prepaid postages and register °°““*· fees on other correspondence which it dispatches, the dispatching office shall deduct the amount required for the conveyance of the mails between the two countries, and the amount of the two net sums shall be equally divided between the two offices. The deficient and additional postages mentioned in Article VI. shall not be included in the account between the two offices, but, unshared, shall belong to the office by which they are collected. Anrrcnm X. The two post departments shall establish, by agreement, and in con- Excimdgs or formity with the arrangements in force at the time, the conditions upon ¢<>¤'€SP<>R <>¤<=°i¤ which the two offices may respectively exchange in open mails the cor- °p°° mms' respondence originating in or destined to other fbreign countries to which they may reciprocally serve as intermediaries. It is always understood, Rates. however, that such correspondence shall only be charged with the American-Danish rate, augmented by the postage due to oreign countries, or for other exterior service. It is agreed that the account of this correspondence shall, as to the Basis ofscinternational postages chargeable on the same, be regulated on the basis °°“*‘*“· mentioned in the preceding article; but that the amount of the extra national postage, or other tax for exterior service, shall be reciprocally accounted for at full rates. Such charges for paid correspondence to, and for unpaid correspondence from, foreign countries, shall therefore be summarily entered on the respective letter-bills to the credit of the country through which the same is forwarded. Aizrrcm XI. The Post-office of the United States shall be granted the privilege of Transitgf transit of closed mails through the Danish territory, exchanged in either fifizzfzitier direction, to and from Sweden and Norway, for a payment of four skilling gguutry, rigsmont per thirty (30) grammes net weight of letters, and two-thirds skilling rigsmont per forty (40) grammes net weight of prints, patterns, and samples of merchandise. Correspondence exempt from postage, letters which cannot be delivered, as well as money-orders, shall not be charged with any transit rate. Reciprocally, the United States office grants to the office of Denmark the privilege of transit of the closed mails exchanged in either direction between the latter and any country to which the former may serve as intermediary, by its usual means of mail transportation, whether on sea