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POSTAL CONVENTION—DENMARK Nov. 7 & Dno. 1, 1871. 903 Convention for the Regulation of the Postal Intercourse between the United DM}'- {Spud States of America and the Kingdom of Denmark. LL.; THE Post Department of the United States of America and the Danish Exchange of Post Department have agreed upon employing the steamers in regular lgalg lt’if;‘§’t';t service between the1r territories, as well as the steamers engaged between aug ]£,,$,,,,,k_ °° Hamburg and Bremen on the one side, and American ports on the other, in order to establish an immediate exchange of mails, and have, for that purpose, consented to the following articles: Anrrcma I. There shall be an immediate exchange of correspondence between the C<>}'f<=¤P<>¤d¤¤¢€» United States of America and Denmark by means of the said steamers, t° '°°l“d° wh°t' and this correspondence shall embrace letters, newspapers, book-packets, prints of all kinds, (comprising maps, plans, engravings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, and all other like productions of mechanical processes, sheets of music, dsc.,) and patterns or samples of merchandise; and such correspondence may be exchanged, whether originating in either of the said countries, or originating in countries to which these may respectively serve as intermediaries. Anrrcnn H. The exchange of correspondence shall take place between the post- chgfH°°¤ °f°X· offices to be hereafter designated by the two post departments; but either g°` of the two offices so designated may at any time be discontinued, and others established by mutual consent. Anrronn III. The United States office shall make its own arrangements for the dis- wgqch Fvlilsttry patch of its mails to Denmark, and in like manner the office of Denmark ma,{;l{g,°mé;h, shall make its own arrangements for the dispatch of its mails to the routes. United States. The mails shall be reciprocally forwarded by the regular routes of communication hereinbefore mentioned, and each office shall, at its own cost, pay the expense of the intermediate transportation (sea and territorial) of the mails which it dispatches to the other. It is also _ agreed that the cost, either in whole or in part, of the international ocean nagg;*a¥;;'Zi*i;}_ and territorial transit of the closed mails exchanged in both directions pitoriafltpalnsit of between the respective frontiers shall, upon application of either office, c1¤sedm¤¤1¤· be first defrayed by that one of the two offices which shall have obtained from the intermediaries the most favorable pecuniary terms for such conveyance, and any amount so advanced by one for and on account of the other shall be promptly reimbursed. Aacrrcns IV. The postage on ordinary letters sent from the United States to Den- Letter-postage; mark, or from Denmark to the United States, shall be respectively twelve (I2) Skilling rigsmont, or seven (7) cents for a single letter. weight and mm The weight of a single letter shall not exceed fifteen grammes. of letters.