, 1868-12-25
avalla Walla Statesiuati.
OFFICIAL.
/ rcoxcLuDED PROM LAST WEEK

Second. No packet may exceed two feet in
length, or one foot in any other dimension, or
the equivalent 10 Swiss measurement.
Third Neither Office shall be bound to deliver
any article the importation of which may be pro-
hibited by The laws or regulations OF the country
of destination.
Fourth. So long as any customs-duty may be
eharRAble on any article exchanged in the mails,
such duty may be levied for the use oil the
customs.
Fifth. Except as above, no charge whatever,
otherwise than as is herein provided, shall De
levied or collected on the correspondence exN
changed.
ARTICLE XII.
The two post departments shall establish, by
agreement and in conformity with the arrange
mpnts 10 force At the time, the conditions upon
which the two offices may respectively exchange
In open mails the correspondence originating in,
or destined to, the other foreign countries to
which they may reciprocally serve as intermedi-
aries IL is always understood, however, that
such correspondence shall only be charged with
the rate applicable to direct international CORES
pondence, augmented by the postage due to for
eigu countries, and by any other tax for exterior
service.
ARTICLE XIII.
Each office accords TO the other the privilege
of transit of closed mails exchanged, in either
direction, between the latter and any country to
which the other may serve as an mediary,
by its usual means of mail transportation,
whether on sea or land Such transit across its
own territory shall be reciprocally freee of
expense.
For such transit by sea the United States Office
shall receive MS follows
I..f0r transit across the waters of the Atlantic
ocean
a. For letters 8 cents per single letter rate.
B. For other correspondence, IL cents per
kilogrammt, net.
ocean:
a. For letters, 10 cents per single letter rate.
b. For other correspondence, 20 cents per
kilogramme, net.
For such traasit by sea the Swiss Office shall
receive rs follows:
For transit across the waters. of the Atlantic
ocean:
a. For letters, cents per single letter rate.
b For other correspondence, IL cents per
kilogramme, net.
For intermediate territorial transit each Office
shall receive the amount it actually disburses
for such transit.
ARTICLE XIV.
The postal accounts between the two offices
shall be stated quarterly, and transmitted and
verified ms spreully as practicable, and the bal.
Ance found due shall be paid to the creditor Office
either by exchange on London or Paris, or at
the debtor Office, the creditor Office may
desire
The rate for the conversion of the money of
the two countries shall be fixed by common
agreemect between the two offices.
ARrIcLE XIV.
When, in any part of either country, a closed
mail is transferred from one vessel to another
without amy expense TO the office of the country
where the transfer is made, such transfer shall
not be subject to any postal charge by one Office
against the other.
ARTICLE XVI.
Official communications between the two Offices
shall not he the occasion of any accounts on
either side.
ARTICLE XVII.
Letters wrongly sent or wrongly addressed,
or not deliverable for whatever cause, shall be
returned to the originating Office at its expense,
ifAny expense is incurred. Registered cores.
pondencr of all kinds not deliverable for any
cause, shall also be returned in like manner.
All other correspondence which cannot be de-
lvered shall remain at the disposition Of the
receiving Office.
Any postage upon correspondence returned
which shall have been charged against the Office
of destination, shall be discharged from the
account.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The two Offices SHALL by mutual consent, es
tablish detailed regulations for carrying those
articles into execution, and they may modify
such regulations, in like manner, from time tC
time, as the exigeucies Of the service may require
ARTICLE XIX.
This convention shall take effect at time tC
be fixed by common accord of the two admins
trations, and shall continue u force until termi
mated by mutual agreement or otherwise, unit
one year from the date when one Office shsl
have notified the other OF It's desire to terminate it
Executed 10 duplicate at Berne, this eleventh
day OF October, A. D. 1867.
SEAL JOHN A. KASS0N,
Special Commissioners.
[sEAL. DR. J. DUBS