TREATY—GENERAL POSTAL UNION. COT. 9, 1874. 577
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Treaty concerning theformontirgv. pj2a Cgnpgétl Postal Union, signed at Berne, Oct. 9, 1814. eo er , . 4. "‘*"‘_"; [NOTn.——This treaty, as signed, was in the French language only. The English translation has been added in Washington.] Tmurn concernant la creation Tnnarx concerning the forma- Contracting pard’une Union generale des_Postes, tion of a General Postal Union, msconclu entre l’Allemagne, l’Au- concluded between Germany, Austriehe-Hongrie, la Belgique, le tria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Danemark, Pltgypte, 1’Espagne, Egypt, Spain, the United States of les Etats—Unis d’Amerique, la America, France, Great Britain, France, la Grande—Bretagne, la Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Nor- Grece, Pltalie, le Luxembourg, la way, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norvege, les Pays—Bas, le Portu- Roumania, Russia, Servia,Sweden, gal, la Roumanie, la Russia, la Ser- Switzerland, and Turkey. bie, la Suede, la Suisse et la Turquie. Les soussignes, plenipotentiaires The undersigned, plenipotentiades Gouvernementsdes pays ci-des ries of the Governments of the sus énumérés, ont d’un commun countries above enumerated, have accord, et sous reserve de ratifica· by common consent, and subject to tion, arrete la Convention suivante: ratification, agreed upon the tollowing Convention: Ancrrcrn I.~ Anrrcnn I. Les pays entre lesquels est con- The countries between which the General Postal clu le present traite formeront, sous present treaty is concluded shall U¤*°¤· la designation de Union générale form, under the title of General des postes, un seul territoire postal Postal Union, a single postal ter- _ pour Pechange reciproque des cor- ritory for the reciprocal exchange respondances entre leurs bureaux of correspondence between their de poste. post-offices. ARTICLE II. Anrxomz II. Les dispositions de ce traité s’e- The stipulations of this treaty _Treaty etipula tendront aux lettres, aux cartes- shall extend to letter? post-cards, *0 °X*°¤d °° correspondence aux livres, aux books, newspapers, an ot wer print- ‘ journaux et autres imprimes, aux ed papers, patterns ofmerchandise, échantillons de marchandises et and legal and commercial docu- " aux papiers d’aifaires originaires ments originating in one of the del’un des paysdel’Union etades- countries of the Union and intination d’un autre de ces pays. tended for another of those coun- Elles s’appliqueront egalement a tries. They shall also apply to Vechange postal des objets ci-des the exchange by post of the articles sus entre les pays de 1’Union et les above mentioned between the counpays étrangers a l’Union toutes les tries of the Union and countnes fois que cet echange emprunte foreign to the Union whenever le territoire de deux des parties such exchange takes place over contractantes au moins. r the territory of two at least of the contracting parties. xxx-—-37
