New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-27

together with registration fee Of Eve cents
on each letter, be prepaid st such mailing
Office; and provided also that such registra-
ton shall not be compulsory, and shall not
render the respective PostOf6ce Depart
ments, or their revenues, either jointly or
separately, liable for the loss Of such letters
or packets, or the contents thereof.
ARTICLE x.
All such letters mailed in the United
States or landowners Island or British Col
umbia, respectively, shall be received,
registered, and receipted Tor as di-
rected in the general regulations issued
OF valuable letters, and shall be sent to the
respective exchange offices for the purpose
of being forwarded thence by the first mail.
ARTICLE VI.
The respective exchange Offices shall
make O separate letter bill for each regis
tered letter or parcel Of registered letters
originally mailed at said exchange Offices,
or sent to them, to be forwarded, as pre-
scribed by the regulations referred to in the
preceding article, and shall enter therein
the name Of the person addressed, and the
pOetOtfice to which it ia to be mailed for deliv-
cry. The postmaster Of said exchange Office
Will then inclose each such letter, or parcel
OF letters, in o separate package, which
shall be cOnspicuously marked and plainly
inscribed with the word Registered" The
letter bills OF such registered letters shall
not be inclOsed in the packages containing
them but shall be forwarded in separate
wrapper or envelope, sealed, and addressed
to the postmaster of the Office to which such
registered letters were sent.
ARTICLE VI.
On the receipt of registered letters for
dcIiVapV distribution of eSthap of tho
respective exchange offices, the postmaster
of such receiving office will compare the
letters with the bill, and indorse it Cor
rect" if found SO: or will note the error, if
there be one, i'll the manner prescribed with
regard to registered letters received from an
inland pOsrotiice. He will then FIJI up the
corresponding return bill, noting upon it
whether correct or otherwise, and will see
that it is returned by the first mail there
after to the exchange office Of mailing.
ARTICLE XIII.
Registered letters received at either of
the exchange Offices, and destined for an
inland pOstOtfice, shall be forwarded in the
same manner as other registered letters
originally mailed at such Office.
ARTICLE XIV.
The registration fee of five cents shall &C
crue to the United States POstotfce Depart
ment upon all registered letters sent from
the United States to Vancouver's Island or
British Columbia, and in like manner the
registration fee of five cents shall accrue to
the pOstotfice department Of Vancouver's
Island and British Columbia to the United
States.
ARTICLE XIV.
The two. departments may, by mutual
consent, make such detailed regulations as
shall be found necessary to carry,out the
objects Of this convention, and may modify
the same from time to time, as the exigen-
cies Of the service may require such regu-
lations to terminate at any time on q reason
able notice by either department.
ARTICLE XVI.
This convention shall 90 into opera
ton on the first of July, 1870, and
it may be annulled at the desire of either
department upon six months previous
notice.
Done in duplicate, and executed in Wash
ington the ninth day of June, 1870, and in
Victoria the twenty fifth day of July, 1870.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ARTHUR T. BUSHBY,
Postmaster General of British Columbia.
! hereby approve the afOregoing conven-
ton, and il testimony thereof have caused
the seal OF the United States to be affixed.
u. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
Washington, October S, 1870.