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ted States and addressed to any of the countries
or colonies enumerated in the preceding ar.

ted States and addressed to any of the countries
tIcle.
On its side, the British Post. Office shall ac.
count TO the United States Pos. Onice for the
sum OF eight cents, in addition to the postage
aue 70 tne United States POST Once upon every
registered letter originating in the United
Kingdom and addressed to any Of the colonies
enumerated in the preceding article.
AhTlCLn Every mail passing between the
shall be accompanied by a letter bill specifying
TIE amount OF postage due 70 each ONCE on
each class Of correspondence, =
shall ackno wledge the receipt by the next post.
The letter bills from the offices OF London,
Liverpool, Southampton. Dublin, Cork. Lon.
ton. New York, Phiiadeiphia, Baltimore. Port.
land, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco.
shall be in conformity with the form d anne xed
10 tne present regulations.
The forms Of letter bills which the offices of
Boston, New York. Philadslphia. Baltimore,
Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco
snail use IN their communications with the
agree with the patterns above described,
The letter bill from the Offices Of New York
ana san francisco, for the British packet office
form annexed to the present regulations.
The letter bill from the offce or New York,
lor the British packet ofYlce at Colon shall be
IN conformity with the form q annexed to the
The letter bill from the ONCE of New Yerk.
for the British packet Office at St Thomas, shall
,s. Te IN CONFORMITY with the form H annexed to
ARTlCLB Xl. The respective Offices Of ex-
change shall mark with red ink. in ordinary
figures, on the upper right-hand corner Of the
amount due to the Office to which the letters
are transmitted; and, in like manner, shall
marx, with black ink, on unpaid letters passing
in transit, the amount due To the disnatchirS
office.
ARTICLE XII. The respective ofices of OK.
chanee shall divide the correspondence which
tney snall mutually exchange into as many
uisunc packets as there are different articles in
the letter bills.
To each packet shall be attached a label
snowing the number Of the article In the &C.
count. as well a. the amount Of postage to be
brought to account in respect to the matter
covered by the label. -"
The labels which the respective offices of ex-
cnange snail make use Of, in virtue Of the pro.
VISIONS OF the present article, shall be printed
!; On pink paper for paid international cor.
2 On yellow paper for paid transit CORES.
9. On white paper for unpaid correspondence,
Wnether infernatlonal or transit.
4. And on blue paper for matter giving rise to
no account
ARTIcLI XIII. Dead letters, newspapers,
&c, which cannot be delivered, from whatever
cause, shtll be mutually returned after the ex.
piration of every month.
Such OF those letters, &C., as shall have been
the same amount Of postage which was origi.
naIy charged by the sending ONCE, and shall
be allowed in the discharge Of the account OF
the oftce to which they We're transmitted.
lead letters, &c, which may have been re.
celved IN closed mails, and which cannot be
produced by tne offioe which has to claim the
amount, shall be admitted for the same weight
ana amount OF postage which was originally
charged upon such letters, &c, in the accounts
OF the respective o0dces, on q declaration or on
nsts vouchins for the amount OF postage de.
ARTICLE XIV. Letters forwarded for the
purpose OF annoying or injuring the parties to
wnom they are addressed the postage Of which
Doth omces are authorized to return to the pub.
iic even after they have been opened, may be
included and admitted with the dead letters
ARTICLE XIV. Ordinary or registered letters,
book packets and patterns OF merc handiss, mis-
directed or missent, shall be recIprocaliy re.
turned, without delay, through the respective
omces OF exchange, for the same weight and
amount OF postage at they were charged
BY the despatching once to the other once.
The articles of like nature addressed TO per.
sons who have changed their residence shall be
mutually forwarded or returned, charged with
the rate that would have been paid by the re-
ceivers.
ARTICLE XVI. The detailed regulations
United Kingdom and of the United States, in
the convention signed at London on the 18th
June, 1867, shall cease to have effect on and
from the day on which the present detailed
regulations shall be put in operation.
Done In duplicate and signed In London the
seventh day OF November, and in Washington,
the twenty fourth day Of N November, one thou.
sand eight hundred and sixty EIGHT.
,s,.h JOHN TILLEY,
le"AL'J Secretary General Post. once, London.
JOSEPH H. BLACKFAN,
Superintendent Foreign Nails, rsHAL.l
General Post. Office, Wdshington