The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-10-28

ARTICLE Al. The United States Pos
Office shall cause to be placed on The
address of ths prepaid letters which The
United States Offices Of exhcOngo shall
deliver 10 the French Offices ofexohangC
this impression (rAlp) stamped in red
ink.
! On its side the French Post Office
shall cause The impression (P ny. stamp
ed in red ink, to be placed on the letters
prepaid 10 destination. which shall be
delivered by the French Offices Of ex
change 10 tue United States offices ot
exchange.
ARTICLE XII, The respective Offices
Of exchange shall place upon the super
scripIiOn Of the correspondence of every
kind contained in tho mails which they
shall receive from the corresponding Of
fee OF exchange, stamp. with The date;
showing the way in which such mails
shall have been forwarded.
The slaupto be placed upon The cor.
respondence transported between the
French frontier and the American irons
tier, at the expense or Oa account Of the
Post Office of France, shall bear, inde
pendently Of the name OF the exchange
Office Of destination, tho character, Serv,
FIR. or b. (Franch or British Service. ]
This stamp shall be placed in blue ink
on the correspondence transmitted direct
ly, and in red ibk on the correspondence
transmitted by way of England.
The stamp 10 bO placed on the cor.
respondenco transported between the
American frontier and the French from.
tier, or the British frontier, at the eK
pense Of the United States Post Office,
shall bear, Independently ol the name
OF tho exchange Office Of destination, the
characters Serv. Am, (American Ser
vice. This stamp shall be placed in
blue ink, both on the correspondence
Transmitted direct and on that compri-
sod in the mails Of or for the Office Of
HOvre, which shall have been transpor
ted by tho packets of the Now York line
TO Bremen, and by the packets plying
between HSvre and Southampton, with.
ont touching the British territory, 1t
shall DO placed 10 red ink on the cores.
pondence comprised in the main mails
which shall have been transported by
the aid Of the British Post Office.
Article XIII. Each of the mailSex:.
chOnged between tho exchange Offices Of
tie tive countries sbalI be accompanied
by. . letter bill, or. statement. showing
the nature, tho nulnber, and ihsgRsighE
Of cbe articles which the mail shah con-
tain. as well Os tia 6mouut of'lhe rates
mentioned in Article X.
. The exchange Office TO which the mail
shall be addressed shall acknowledge
its receipt TO Che exchange Office trans
mitting it, by the next conveyance.
The letter bills or statements and the
Acknowledgements Of receipt, of which
the French offices OF exchange shall
make use, shall be conformable 10 the
model d. annexed to the present urlic-
les.
The letter bills or statements and the
Acknowledgements Of receipt. Of which
the United States exchange Offices shall
make use, shall be conformabls to the
model Z, in like manner annexed 10 the
present articles.
ARTICLE XIV. 10 cases where, on the
days Fixed for sending the mails, an office
Of exchange shall have no letter to ad-
dress to the corresponding exchange o.
Zee, the Office Of transmission shall, new
erlheless send 10 the ordinary form. a
mail, which shall contain q negative lett
ter bill or statement.
ARTICLE XIV. Letters which canaol
be delivered for any cause whatever
shall be returned on one part aud the
other, at the end Of each month, and
more frequently il possible, Those Of
such letters which shall have been pla>
ced in the account shall DO returned for
the sum ot which they have been origi-
nally counted by tho sending once
Those which shall have been delivered
prepaid 10 destination or to the frontier
or to the corresponding Office shall be
returned without charge or deduction.
The deduction resulting from charges
on correspondence which cOnnot bo de-
liyered shall be established in detailed.
mOmorandums, conlormablc 10 tho model
+, annexed 10 the present articles.
ARTICLE XVI, There shall be prepa'
red eyery three months, at the French
General Post 0licc, precise accounts, 4,
rccapiiulaling the facts relative 10 the
Transmission of correspondence between
the respective Offices of exchange
These accounts, which shall have for
base and for vouchers the acknowledg
mcuts of receipt Of mails sent aud re-
ceivod during the period Of three months
shall be rocapiluI0tOd in general Ae-
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