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 906 POSTAL CONVENTION-—DENMAR.K. Nov. 7 & Disc. 1, 1871. or land, and the terms of transit shall be agreed upon when the exercise of the privilege is required. Anrxotm XII. Postal accounts The postal accounts between the two offices shall be stated and trans-
 * 1%]::-;]ftSm'°t°d mitted quarterly, and verified as speedily as possible, and the balance found

due shall be paid in the coin of the creditor country. vcfmigiigmfggy The rate for the conversion of the money of the two countries shall be ° one dollar for one rigsdaler eighty-five skilling rigsmont. The two orlices shall, however, always be at liberty to agree upon another rate for the conversion. Amxorn XIII. Missent com- Any ordinary correspondence wrongly addressed, or wrongly sent, shall g’°l;d;g§u€‘&‘·• without delay, and registered correspondence of all kinds, as well as ordi- ` nary letters not deliverable for any other cause than the aforesaid, within the issue of every month, be mutually returned at the expense of the originating office. All other correspondence which cannot be delivered shall remain at the disposition of the receiving office. If any returned correspondence shall be charged with postage debited the office of destination, the said correspondence shall be returned for the amount of postage which was originally charged by the dispatching office. Aarxomn XIV. Transfer of When, in any port of either country, a closed mail is transferred from $13;}  one vessel to another, without any expense to the office of the country where the transfer is made, such transfer shall not be subject to any postal charge by one office against the other. Ancricnn XV. Omcial com- Official communications between the two offices shall not be the oc- ¤¤¤i°¤*i°¤¤- casion of any accounts on either side. Anrxors XVI. Detailed Ng,. The two offices shall, by mutual consent, establish the-detailed regulalntions- ‘ tions which the carrying mto execution of the articles included in this 95}*** W 908* convention may require. Anrrcnn XVII. _ When cenven- The present convention shall be carried into effect on the day on which Egg gzlffioilgf; the two offices shall agree, and shall continue in force until one of the two égudnug; g contracting parties shall have announced to the other, within the issue of a calendar year, its intention to terminate it. Anriome XVIH. yp? in be The present convention is to be ratified, and the ratincations are to be n ° · exchanged as soon as possible. Done at Copenhagen, in duplicate original, this 7th day of November, 1871, and at Washington this 1st day of December, 1871. [san.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General. [scar.] DANNESKJOLD SAMSOE.