Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-10-22

Win foreign countries, and upon conditions,
as lnaicaied IN sse Table =, hereto annexed.
SECTION XI. The respective exchange Offices
snail marx In red Ink in the upper part of the
address OF prepaid letters and other CORES pon
oence sent for transit In tbs open mail, the
eigu office OF desti nation, and In the same man.
ner, eut In 6idck ink, shall mark the amount of
postage due TO the foreign once Of origin upon
the unpaid letters sent In transit
SECTION XII. Articles under band which do
not conform TO the conditions mentioned IN
Article VIII. or the Con vention, or which are
In no part prepaid, shall BE- retained at the
disposition OF the ad administration Of origin, or
II sent shall n OF be subject to account
SECTION XIII. Letters originating IN or des.
tined Tor torelgn countries sent in the open m nj
for transit through the United States, or through
the North German Union, and which are in.
sumclentiy prepaid, shall be transmit ed as
who'iy unpaid, and rO account taken bet ween
palo. But II one or more full rates shall, bs
prepaid the number OF rates fully prepaid shall
be always credited.
;, Sscrlos XIV: Letters, and all registered ar.
ticl-s which cannot be delivered. shall be re-
speciyely returned TO the dIspatching admin =
Istration at the end OF every month. =
Tee postage on unpaid letters returned sh all
oe edueted from the account against tue ofic
originally charged Herewith. The postage on
prepaid letters returned shall remain in tn e
account as originally entered. -, ~ =
The expense Of transit of unpaid correspou-
den &c. which has been transpor .ed by either ad
ministration in closed mails. ana shall be re.
turned to tne despatching ONCE as Rot delivera
bic. shall be deducted from the original amour :
c0arged tor transit upon declal alton Of th g
am ount oy the office claiming the reduction
No charge will be made by either adm,nistra
ton foI me transit Of correspondence returned
pondence not deliverable shall follow the
models ard q hereto annexed. ~
SECTION XIV. All correspondence wrongly
addressed OF missent shall be returned, with
out delay. by the receiving office to the ex-
change efice which despatched it, The re .
ceiVing once sball also correct accordingly, in
the column OF vsrifcation, the or ginal entries
OF the letter bill relating to such correspon.
dence. The articles OF like nature addressed
TO persons who have changed their residenc ca
shall be mutually forwarded or returned,
charged with the rate which would have been
paid on the first destination.
SfCTlOEANI. Ire des pate hing exchange Office
shall state, the letter bill, for the intsrmedi.
ate ofhees, the exact number of single rates Of
letters Tor weight II required) and the total net
weight OF the other correspondence which ehall
De despatched, in closed mails, by such inter.
mediate transit. -
SEoTIon XVII. 1t is upderste cd that the ac.
connts between the two Offices she'll be estab.
lished on the RESP ective letter BILLS, In the
proper money Of the despatchirg once, but the
International postage on the unpaid letters or
insufhciently prepaid letters shall be Computed
IN the money Of the receiving once. The re.
duction OF these moneys shall be eff :ted in the
one thaler eleven silber. .groschen and eight
Pfennigs. In entei ing the foreign charges on
the letter bill, in the money of the de espatch,ng
office, the cent shall be considered the 40 uiva,
lent Of five pfennigs.
1t also understood that the quarterly ac.
counts shall be adjusted respectively IN gold.
and IN the denomination of the money of the
creditor once.
SECTION XVIII. The quarterly accounts,
mentioned in Article XIV. of the con ventiou,
shali be prepared by the respective d. spatch.
ing Offices of exchange. They shall be based
upon the ackn owledmsnts Of receipt, and shall
respectively be prepared according to the
models hereto annexed, marked III or /.
ne accounts preared by the North German
omces shall be transmitted TO the Post. Offi "a
Department Of the United States A reclpitu-
latoE Of the respective accounts. showing the
shall be prepared py the United States ONCE.
and shall then be transmitted. with the ac.
counts on which it is based, for the examiua.
lion of the other Office.
SkCTloN XIX. The charge TO BE- made by
the North German Office Tor the transit OF
clos ed male, which the United States shall
exchange in either direction with countries
beyond Germany, shall be rs follows:
For mails exchanged with Switzerland or
Italy Is ptenpigs per 30 grammes Of letters
For other correspondence SLIDER groschen per
Kilogramme.
For mails exchanged with other countrie,
one half silber. groschen per single letter rate
For other correspondence er-groschen per
kIlogI anime.
Executed in duplicate, at Washington the
22d July, ls6; at Berlin the 3Oth June, 1865
PHILIPsBoRN.
ALEX. w. RANDALL,
Postmaster. General, U. s. America.