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CONVENTION WITH NORTH GERMAN UNION. Arm!. 7-23, 1870. 1003 Additional Convention to the Uonvention agreed upon between the Post April 7-28, 1870, Departments of the United States of America and of the Mart/z Ger- `Ante, p. 979. man Union, for the Amelioration of the Postal Service between the two Oountries, signed at Berlin the twentggirst dag of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. As, by an additional convention concluded between the General Post- Preamble. Otiice of the United States of America and the General Post-Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the compensation to Am: P· 8*9- be paid for the sea conveyance across the Atlantic Ocean of such letters as are sent in closed mails from and to the United States of America. through the United Kingdom, has been fixed at six cents per ounce or per thirty grammes, and as the companies of the regular steamship lines between Bremen and New York and between Hamburg and New York have agreed to reduce the compensation which they receive for the direct conveyance of letters between the said German ports and New York, the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective governments, have agreet. upon the ibllowing additional articles to the convention concluded at Berlin the 21st October, 1867. ARTICLE I. The single-letter rate on the correspondence exchanged $*¤8]¤~l¤**¤' directly between the two administrations shall be z -—· mt"` I. In the direct exchange via Bremen or Hamburg : 1. For letters from the North German Union : a. When prepaid in Germany, 3 silbergroschen. b. When paid in the United States, 14 cents. 2. For letters from the United States : a. When prepaid in America, 7 cents. b. When paid in Germany, 6 silbergroschen. II. In the direct exchange in closed transit through England: 1. For letters from the North German Union : a. When prepaid in Germany, 4 silbergroschen. b. When paid in the United States, 20 cents. 2. For letters from the United States : a. When prepaid in America, 10 cents. b. When paid in Germany, 8 silbergroschen. Anrrcms II. Insufficiently paid letters shall be charged with the post- Insnmeiently age for unpaid letters, after deduction of the prepaid amount. PEN; l°éV>’¤ ARTICLE III. Newspapers, other printed matter, and samples, shall gah? um" also have the benefit of a moderated postage. 'Such articles, moreover, Postage upon can only be dispatched when they are fully prepaid to the place of des- f:;;f;P@_ tination, or to the point to which prepayment is possible. ’ ARTICLE IV. The total proceeds of the common postage and of the A<¤>¤¤¤*·¤· register fees shall be added together. The cost of transit through intermediary territory and the cost of the ocean transportation shall be brought into mutual account, and the not proceeds shall be divided equally between the two administrations. In order to state the total receipts as simply as possible, the two administrations agree that the reciprocal delivery of the dispatches shall as far as practicable take place according to the measure of the total weight, and the preparation of the accounts according to the measure of average rates. Moreover, the amounts