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 802 CONVENTION—GERMAN EMPIRE. Cor. 31 AND Nov. 18, 1873. Oct. 31 and 18-Nov.,_Addittenal articles of agreement bctwwen the Post Departntenglthe United 1873· States of Ammba and the Post Department of the German ptre, establishing an exchange of postal cards between the two countries. Anmromr. 1. Postal cards. For the purpose of providing additional facilities of mail communica tion between the United States of America. and the German Empire, 1E1S hereby mutually agreed that United States postal cards mailed at any post-olhce in the United States and addressed to Germany, and German postal cards mailed at any postollice in Germany and addressed to the United States, the postage on which shall have been fully prepaid to destination, at the rates hereinafter stated can henceforth be exchanged between the inhabitants of the United States and __o;f Germany.. But unpaid or insufficientlypaid postal cards will not be forwarded in the mails between the two countries. · · Aarrorn 2. , Pom, c,,,,,, how Postal cards shall be forwarded exclusively by means of such direct forwarded. steamers as shall from time to time be employed m the transportation _of the direct German-American mails. Each of the two post depart- Expensu of- ,0,, ments shall pay the entire expenses of the sea transport for the postal mmsport. cards which are sent from its territory. Rate on sea trans- For the purposes of this article, the charge for the sea transportation 1>¤¤‘*M1¤¤· across the Atlantic of the postal cards sent by direct stcamers from the United States to Germany, isfixed at one cent an ounce, (avoirdupois,) not weight. ‘_ Anrrcnm 3. Postage. The postage on postal card sent in each direction is fixed_ asfollows: 1. At 2 cents when sent from the United States of America. 2. At 1 silbergroschen when sent from Germany. prepayment, how ‘ Prepayment thereof to be made by aftixing to each United States made. postal card an ordinary onecent postage-stamp in addition to the stamp printed or impressed on the card. - postage, to whom “Each department shall retain to its exclusive use the postage which belongs, it collects, at the prescribed rates, on the postal cards sent from its territory. ‘ — Aarrerjn 4. - · The regulations and instructions governing the use and treatmentof P(,5,¥¤,§l;;t§g?s fo I- postal cards in the domestic mails of the United States and of Germany,- ~ respectively, shall apply equally to the postal cards mailed in either . countryand addressed to the other country. ‘ Amrcm 5. ‘. - », The regulations in the foregoing articles shall in like manner apply _ ,1; °.,gdlT:°T,,,,:,.}Q. to the postal cards which are exchanged, through the medium ,0f the ir u u g a r y and German mails, between the United States of America on the one side, ¥¤¤¤! 0i' Lum- and the Empire of Austria-Hungary and the Grand Duchy of Luxem ‘!'U· burg on the other. . . _ V