The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-02

Art To- Every mall passing between the respective
ofaees Of exchange in the United Kingdom and ths
specifying the amount Of postage due to each Office
each class Of correspondence The ONCE to which the
"a ,ns return oy sse mex. post an &C.
was transmitted. The letter bills and acknewledg-
ments of receipt shall be made according the forms
ticlss.
Art. 10. fit shall happen at the usual period for
making the mails that there should not be any let
ter or other from either of the offices
Of exchange blank letter bill shall nevertheless be
forwarded to the corresponding ofi,e
Art. II The letter bills Acknowledgements Of re-
cePt indicating the correct amount Of postage due to
each Office shall serve as vouchers to the quarterly
respective Offices of exchange the Of postage
any Of the articles shall be found differ from that
such articles shall be checked BY two ofcers and the
corrected amount which Is entered by on
rihcston side Of the letter b shall be the
true amount
Art H. 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 the General Post Once Ia
London; and, having been examined, com pared, 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
terly accounts shall be made out according to the
forms III and y annexed to the present articles
CHAPTER A.
DEAD, MIssErT, AND RETURNED LETTERS.
ART 19-Dead letters newspapers, &C., which
not be delivered from whatever cause shall mutu
otherwise Is the regulations Of each ONCE will admit
Such Of those letters &c shall have been charged
In the account shall be returned for the
of postage which 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 and ~ to be used In claiming the return Of
postage, and to accompany such dead letters news
papers, &c. are annexed to the present articles.
Arr. 2O.-With respect to dead letters, &c which
may have been received in closed mails or which can
not be produced by the Office which has to claim the
amount, they shall be admitted for the same weight
Vuht riuts
upon such dead letters &c Ia the OF the re-
spective Offices on declaration or lists vouching
for the amount OF postage demanded signed by the
spector Of the dead letter Office other officer duly
authorised for that purpose
ART. 2l.-Letters misdirected or missent or which
may require the pre- payment Of the postage shall be
reciprocay returned without delay through the re-
spective offices Of exchange, and credit taken in the
letter bill for the amount OF postage originally charged
upon them Redirected letters letters addressed to
persons who have changed their residences shall be
mutually returned by first post charged with the
rates Of postage which would have been paid by the
parties to whom they are addressed
Art % sent for the purpose Of annoying or
pjuring the parties to whom they addressed (he
postage which either Office may think proper to re-
turn) even though they may have been opened to
be included and admitted with the dead letters
Art Is Whereas, by article ID of the convention of
December Is 1913 stipulated that letters posted In
the United States, addressed to the British North
rcan Provinces vice shall be charged accord
ing to the rates Of postage which which
shall hereafter be- In operation in the United States
in the British North American Provinces for inland
letters and whereas by article IA of the said conven
tion 1t is further stipulated that the rates OF postage
fixed by the preceding article shall be combined into
rate Of which payment in advance shall be option
a. both In the United States and in the British North
American provinces and that 1t shall not be permitted
to pay less than the whole rate and owing to the
various rates Of postage in operation in the two
countries which governed by the distance that let
tiers have to be conveyed in each depending upon the
point Of INSTRUMENTATION where the
passes from country to the other IL will pos
sibe to determine BY previous regulations the true
combined rates to which letters will be liable and as
therefore 1t will not be practicable to prescribe such
forms and settle such details will carry the said art
clss into due effect It agreed that further efforts for
the Of such forms and details for carrying
into operation articles Is and Ia Of the Of
December 49, 1913 shall be- postponed until such alte-
ratons be made In the rates of postage will allow Of
the provisions OF the said articles being eecualy car
ed out according to the true intent and meaning Of
the same.
Art 24-The present articles far as they are not
already in force, shall come into operation 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. HoBpIE
II. BOURNE.
Approved: j. COLLANER.
GENERAL Posr orrcs, LONDON, May 81, ls4e.
Having examined and considered the twenty four
additional articles for carrying into execution the
postal convention between the United States Of Ame
RIGA and the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ire
land, which agreed upon and signed the l4th
of May instant by Selah X Hobbie Esq on behalf OF
the Post Office Department Of the United States and
Henry Bourne Esq On behalf Of this Department. the
In witness whereof have caused my seal Of office TO be
hereto affixed this day and year first above written
II. 81 CLANRlCARDE, Postmaster General.
TABLES AND INSTRUCTIONS
The tables in the appendix exact and authentic
expeditions OF the treaty adapted to practical ope
ratons by the additions articles but the vaua-
bic Of them for general information is impossible to
compress into newspaper publication. As they will
be furnished TO the postmasters and officers whose
they prepared, In the shape Of printed blanks
their chief contents embodied In the following
statements and appended here in lieu Of the tables
themselves because In this form they can be more ge-
nersy published and viii be more easily understood by
l. Between any ONCE in the United States (Oresou
and California excepted) and any sfce in Great Bril-
tain and Ireland the entire postage Is "a the
gle letter which may be prepaid or sent unpaid OF
this amount the British post ONCE when 1t conveys the
letter by Its own packet and collects the postage
counts 10 the United states for cents when IL col.
lscts the postage without conveying tbs letter II
counts for u cents The United States post Office
counts to the British for cents the letter when IL
carries and collects and for 10 cents when IL collects
only. Payment by the party Of any thing less than
change will treat such letters as wholly unpaid.
Between the offccs Of afornia aud Oregon and
tho.s Of Great Britain aud ireland the entire postage
IL 90 cents the single letter which may be prepaid or
cent unpaid and u which the British share Is or 10
esnts Dope dng on the whether convey
ed by the United States or British packet. and the
United States share 80 or ~ cents depending the
same circumstance.
3 ON all correspondence between the United State.
and the folo-ng named countries. the United States
postage and that only must be collected In the United
States, by pr. payment, when sent, and delivery
when received at the rate OF cents the single letter
when conveyed by British packet UNLESS from to
Oregon California then 40 cents aud q cents the
single letter when conveyed by United States packet.
unless ~ aforesaid. from TO Oregon or California
then SO cents. to Wit
Alexandria, city Of via Naples, Kingdom Of via
harseilles. Marseillcs,
Algeria, Norway,
Austria and the Austrian OldenburEh,
States, Poland
Baden, Prussia,
Bavaria, Roman, or Papsl States.
Belgium, Russia,
Bremen, Free City 81, s~xony,
brunswick, seutan, City Of via Mar
Beyroot, City Of, via Mar settles,
settles, Smyrna, do do
Dardsnelles, The, do. Sweden,
Denmark Ssitseriand,
France Turkey, 10 Europe,
German States, Tuscany, via Msrseillcs,