, 1869-02-05


ARTICLES AGREED UPON BETWEEN THE
POST DEPARTMENTS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. REPRESENTED BY
JOHN A. KASS0N, ESQUIRE. SPECIAL CON !
MISSIONER, AND THE POSTAL ADMINS.
TRATION OF THE KINGDOM OF ITALY,
REPRESENTED BY CAvALIERE AVYOCA.
TO GEORGE BATTISTA TANTESIO, DIREC.
TOR, &C., &C., BOTH INVESTED WITH THE
NECESSARY POWERS FOR THE MODIFI~
CATION OF THE CONVENTION EXECUTED
BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES UNDER
DATE OF THE EIGHTH JULY, 1868, AND
AS PROVIDED IN THE XXIVrH ARTICLE
OF SAID CONVENTION.
[ooScLuDED1
For transport of closed mails by either admin,
stratiou for the other by sea, the following rates
are fixed to be charged and received by the
administration rendering the service, viz:
(d) For transport across the waters Of the
Atlantic ocean, cents per single letter rate !;
and IL cents per kilogram net of other eorres-
pondeuce. ias iu rai .ih
(6) For transport across the waters of the
Pacific ocean, l0'cents per single letter rate, and
20 cents per kilogram netofother correspondence.
(e) For transport across the MEDITERRANEAN sea,
50 centesmi per 80 grams of letters net, and 60
centesmi per kilogrom net of other correspond
ence. -
(d) For intermediate territorial transport each
administration shall charge and receive the
amount which it shall have actually paid for the
account of the other l
5 ARTICLE XIII. a
The accounts between the two administrations
shall be stated quarterly, ard then transmitted
and verified as speedily as practicable; and the
debtor office shall pay the balance found due to
the creditor Office, either by exchange ou Loudon
or at the debtor office, as the creditor Office may
desire.
The rate for the conversion of the money of
the two countries shall be fixed by common
agreement between the two offices.
ARTICLE XIV.
When 10 any port of either country closed
mail is transferred from one vessel to another,
without any expense to the Office of the country
when the transport is made, such transfer shall
not be subject to any postal charge by one Office
against the other.
ARTICLE XIV.
Correspondence exclusively relating to the
postal service shall be transmitted on both sides
free of all charge.
Article XVI
Letters wrongly sent, or wrongly addressed,
or not deliverable for whatever cause, and all
registered correspondence not deliverable for
any cause, shall be returned as promptly as prac
ticable to the originating office, at the cost, if
any cost incurred. Any postages on returned
correspondence which may have been charged
against the returning Office shall be discharged
from the account.
All other correspondence which cannot be
delivered shall remain at the disposition of the
receiving administration.
ARTICLE XVII
Small sums of money may be mutually trans
mitted from one country to the other bv means
of postal money orders and the rates and cons
dittons may be arranged by agreement between
the two departments, so soon as such arrange.
ment may be found Convenient.
ARrIcLE XVIII
The two ADMINISTRATIONS shall 10 concert es>
tablish detailed regulations tor the execution of
these articles and both the articles and the
regulations may be modified from time to time
by accord of the two administrations, as the
exigeneies of the service may require
ARTICLE XIX
This convention shall take effect on the frst
OF April next, and shall continue in force until
one year from the time when one OF the contract.
ing parties shall have given to the other notice
OF It's desire to terminate it,, unless sooner termi
mated or modified by mutual agreement.
ARTICLE Xxx
This convention shall be ratified on the part
of the United States by the Posimtster General
and on the part of Italy by the Director General
of Posts, and the ratifcations exchanged as early
as possible.
10 testimony whereof, the two commissioners
have subscribed their names aud affixed their
seals thereto.
Done at Florence in duplicate original, this
eighth day of Novem yer, A. D. eighteen hun,
dred and sixty seven.
SEAL. JOHN A. KASSON,
Special Commissioner &c.
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