The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-04

CHAPTER 3.-Letter Bills, .AcknoDLedg-
ments Of Receipt, accounts, &c.
ART, Is. Every mail passing between the respec-
tive offices of exchange in the United Kingdom and
the United States shall be accompanied by letter
BILL specifying the amount of postage due to each
Office ON each class Of correspondence. The office
70 which the mail is addressed shall return by the
next post an acknowledgement of receipt to the
Office from which II was transmitted. The letter
bills and Acknowledgements OF receipt shall be made
according TO the forms + and CD agreed upon and
annexed TO the present articles. ~
Arr. 10. If it shall happen at the usual period for
making up the mails that there should not be any
letter, other correspondence, from either of the
Offices of exchange, blank letter bill shall,
theless be forwarded TO the corresponding Office.
ART. II. The letter bills and acknowledgements
OF receipt, indicating the correct amount of postage
due TO each office, shall vouchers to the
quarterly accounts. If, in checking the mails trans
mitted TO the respective Offices of exchange, the
amount of postage OF any Of the articles shall be
found TO differ from that entered ON the letter bill
by the despatching office, such articles shall be
checked by two officers, and the corrected amount,
which is entered by them the verihcation side OF
the letter bill, shall be accepted the true amount
ART. Is. Accounts, showing the results of the
mutual transmission of correspondence between the
United Kingdom and the United States, shall be
made out at the end of every quarter by the General
Post Office in London, and, having been examined
compared, and settled by the General Post Office
in Washington, the balance shall be paid without
delay by that Office which shall be found indebted
to the other The quarterly accounts shall be made
out according to the forms Oh and y annexed to
the present articles.
CHAPTER. A. Dead, .MSsent, and Re
turned Letters.
ART 49, Dead letters, newspapers, &c, which
cannot be delivered, from whatever cause, shall be
| mutually returned after the expiration of every
month, or otherwise, as the regulations of each
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shall have been charged in the account shall be
| turned for the same amount of postage which was
originally charged by the sending office, and shall
be allowed in discharge of the account of the office
TO which they transmitted. The forms X and
L. to be used in claiming the return of postage,
and TO accompany such dead letters, newspapers,
&c, are annexed to the present articles.
AIR. 20. With respect to dead letters, &c, which
may have been received in closed mails, or which
cannot be produced by the Office which has to claim
the amount, they shall be admitted for the same
weight and amount of postage which was originally
charged upon such dead letters, &c, the accounts
of the respective Offices declaration on lists
vouchlng Tor the amount OF postage demanded,
signed by the inspector of the dead letter Office
other officer duly authorized for that purpose.
ART. 81. Letters misdirected or missent, or which
may require the prepayment of the postage, shall
be reciprocally returned without delay through the
respective Offices of exchange, and credit taken in
the letter bill for the amount of postage originally
charged upon them Redirected letters, or letters
addressed TO persons who have changed their resi-
dences shall DC mutually returned by the first post
charged with the rates of posa which would have
been paid by the parties TO whom they ad
dressed.
Art %. Letters sent for the purpose of annoying
injuring the parties TO whom they addressed,
(the postage on which either Office may think pro-
per TO return,) even though they may have been
opened, are TO be included and admitted with the
dead letters
ART %. Whereas by article l3 of the convention
Of December 5 1913, it is stipulated that letters
posted in the United States addressed to the British
North American provinces, or vice versa, shall be
charged according to the rates of postage which
are now, which shall hereafter be, in operation
in the United States and in the British North Anne
rcan Provinces for inland letters and whereas, by
article IA Of the said convention il is further spu
lated that the rates of postage fixed by the proceed
ing article shall be combined into one rate of which
payment in advance shall be optional, both in the
United States and in the British North Ameri-
can Provinces and that il shall not be permitted To
pay less than the whole rate; and as owing to the
/ various rates of postage now in operation in the
two countries, which governed by the distance
that letters have to be conveyed in each, depending
upon the point of intercommunication where the
correspondence passes from country the other,
it will not be possible TO determine by previous
regulations the true combined rates 10 which letters
will be liable; and as, therefore, il will not be prac-
tcable TO prescribe such forms and settle such de
tails as wifi carry the said articles into due effect
il If agreed that further efforts for the adjustment
such forms and details for carrying into operation
articles and IA of the convention of December Is
lS4s, shall be postponed until such alterations be
made in the rates of postage will allow of the
provisions Of the said articles being eectually
ried out according TO the true intent and meaning
| Of the came.
AR. "a The present articles, 80 far as they are
already in force, shall come into operation on
| the first day Of July next
Done in duplicate in the city Of Washington, the
fourteenth day Of May, one thousand eight hundred
and forty nine.
s. r. H0BBIE,
III. BOURNE.