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GENERAL POSTAL UNION—OCTOBER 9, 1874
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  • For Italy:
    • Tantesio
  • For Luxembourg:
    • Von Roebe
  • For Norway:
    • C. Oppen
  • For the Netherlands:
    • Hofstede
    • B. Sweerts de Landas-Wyborgh
  • For Portugal:
    • Eduardo Lessa
  • For Roumania:
    • George F. Lahovari
  • For Russia:
    • Baron Velho
    • Georges Poggenpohl
  • For Servia:
    • Mladen Z. Radoycovitch
  • For Sweden:
    • W. Roos
  • For Switzerland:
    • Eugène Borel
    • Naeff
    • Dr. J. Heer
  • For Turkey:
    • Yanco Macridi

Final Protocol

The undersigned plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries which have to-day signed the treaty concerning the formation of a General Postal Union, have agreed as follows:

In case the French Government, which has reserved to itself the open protocol, and which appears in consequence in the number of the contracting parties to the treaty without having yet given to it its adherence, should decide not to sign it,[1] this treaty shall be no less definitive and obligatory for all the other contracting parties whose representatives have signed it to-day.

In faith of which the undersigned plenipotentiaries have prepared the present final protocol, which shall have the same force and value as if the provisions it contains were inserted in the treaty itself, and they have signed one copy of it, which shall remain in the archives of the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and a copy of which shall be given to each party.

Berne, October 9, 1874.

  • For Germany:
    • Stephan
    • Günther
  • For Austria:
    • Le Baron de Kolbensteiner
    • Pilhal

  1. The convention was signed for France on May 3, 1875, subject to conditions and reservations assented to by the other contracting parties. These conditions and reservations, recorded in the procès-verbal of exchange of ratifications of May 3, 1875 (19 Stat. 590), read, in translation, as follows:

    "France gives its adhesion to the Treaty, subject to the approval of the National Assembly . . . .

    "1st. This convention may enter into effect, so far as France is concerned, as late as the 1st of January, 1876;

    "2d. The compensation to be paid for territorial transit shall be adjusted according to the actual route traversed, but at the same rates as those established by the Treaty constituting the General Postal Union.

    "3d. There shall be no modification made in relation to the tariffs established in the Treaty of the 9th October, 1874, except by the unanimous vote of the countries of the Union represented at the Congress."