The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-07
territories in table (E) annexed TO the present arti
cles. (See statement 8, appended) sf
CHAPTER 3.-Leftr Bills, .AcknoWledg-
ments of Receipt, accounts, &c.


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
to which the mail is addressed shall return by the
next post an acknowledgement Of receipt TO the
Office from which il was transmitted. The letter
bills and Acknowledgements of receipt shall be made
according TO the forms Of and G. agreed upon and
annexed to the present articles
ART 10. II II shall happen at the usual period for
making up. the mails that there should not be any
letter, or 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 serve vouchers to the
quarterly accounts. II, in checking the mails trans
United TO the respective offices of exchange, the
amount of postage of any of the articles shall be
found To differ from that entered 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 yerication 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 III and ID annexed To
the present articles
CHAPTER. 4. - Dead, .Mssent, and Re-
turned Letters.
ART. l9. Dead letters, newspapers, &c, which
cannot be delivered from whatever cause, shall be
mutually returned after the expiration of every
month, otherwise, the regulations of each
Office will admit. Such Of those letters &C., as
shall have been charged in the account shall be
originally charged by the sending office, and shall
be allowed in discharge of the account of the Office
to which they were transmitted. The forms X and
u to be used in claiming the return of postage,
and 10 accompany such dead letters, newspapers,
&c, are annexed TO the present articles.
ART. 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. in the accounts
of the respective offices, declaration lists
vouching for the amount OF postage demanded,
signed by the inspector of the dead letter Office
other officer duly authorized for that purpose
ART. 81 Letters instructed or missent, or which
may require the repayment of the postage, shall
be reciprocaly 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 be mutually returned by the first post
been paid by the parties to whom they are ad-
dressed.
ART %. Letters sent for the purpose of annoying
or injurng 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, to be included and admitted with the
dead letters.
Art %. Whereas by article Is of the convention
Of December Is, 1913, il is stipulated that letters
,osted in the United States, addressed to the British
k III American provinces, or vice versa, shall be
~, according to the rates of postage which
an u So or -hich shall hereafter be, in operation
in the United Sta. rs and IN the British North Anne
rican Provinces for in sna iet'erS ana where's Dy
article IA of the said conve. s,sd bn tha nranppS
lated that the rates of postage e " wy PIei
ing article shall be combined into one a",I ~ Ia
payment in advance shall be optional, boz Ni 'e
United States and in the British North AMI"
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 INSTRUMENTATION where the
correspondence passes from country to the other,
il will not be possible 10 determine by previous
regulations the true combined rates 10 which letters
will be liable and as, therefore, II will not be prac-
ticable TO prescribe such forms and settle such de-
tails as win carry the said articles into due effect
il is agreed that further efforts for the adjustment Of
such forms and details for carrying into operation
articles ID and IA of the convention Of December 10,
ls4s, shall be postponed until such alterations be
made in the rates of postage will allow of the
provisions of the said articles being efectually
ried out according TO the true intent and meaning
of the same.
AR "a. The present articles, 20 far as they arc
not 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.