The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

directed shall without delay be reciprocalIy re-
turned by means of the respective exchange Off
ces, for the sum which the Office sending shall
have allowed the other Office these letters.
Letters which shall have been addressed to per-
sons who have changed their residences shall be
respectively delivered returned, charged with
the postage which should have been paid by the
persons addressed.
Article Y. The rates which the two post Offices
of France and the United States shall mutually
have to carry to each others account, shall be
marked on the letters at the exchange Office from
which they sent, in ordinary figures, plainly
and uniformly, on the right hand of the upper
part of the address.
The rates of letters unpaid to be carried to the
debit of the corresponding office by the sending
office shall be marked in black ink those of pre-
paid letters to be carried to the credit of the
| responding Office shall be marked in red ink.
Article XII. The United States Post Office
shall cause to be placed the address of the pre-
paid letters which the United States offices OF ex
change shall deliver to the French offices of
change, this impression PAID). stamped in red ink
On its side, the French Post Office shall
the impression (P ~, stamped in red ink, to be
placed the letters prepaid to destination, which
shall be delivered by the French offices of ex-
change to the United States Offices of exchange.
Article MI. retrospective offices of exchange
| shall place upon the superscrption of the
pondence of every kind contained in the mails
which they shall receive from the corresponding
offices of exchange, stamp, with the date. show
ing the way in which such mails shall have been
/ forwarded.
The stamp to be placed upon the correspondence
transported between the French frontier and the
American frontier, at the expense of ae-
count of the Post-Ofice of France, shall bear, in
| dependently of the name of the exchange Office
of destination, the characters Serv. FIR. Br.
| (French or British Service.) This stamp shall be
placed in blue ink on the correspondence trans
mitted directly, and in red ink the correspond
enoe transmitted by way of England.
| The stamp to be placed on the correspondence
transported between the American frontier and
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expense of the United States Office, shall
bear, Independently of the name of the exchange
Office of destination, the characters of Serv. Am
| american Serviee.) This stamp shall be placed
in blue ink, both on the correspondence transmit
ted direct and on that comprised in the mails of
| OF for the office of Havre. which shall have been
transported by the packets of the New York line
to Bremen, and by the packets plying between
Havre and Southampton, without touching the
British territory. 1t shall be placed in red ink
on the correspondence comprised in the mails
which shall have been transported by the aid of
the British Post-0fiee.
Article XIII Each of the mails exchanged
/ between the exchange Offices of the two countries
shall be accompanied by letter BILL or statement,
( showing the nature, the number, and the weight
of the articles which the mail shall contain, as
well as the amount of rates entioned in Article
y.
/ The exchange Office in which the mail shall be
addressed shall acknowledge its receipt to the ex-
change office transmitting it, by the next convey
7 anee
The letter bills statements, or the acknowl-
edgments of receipt, of which the French offices
( of exchange shall make use, shall be conformable
| to the model D, annexed to the present articles.
The letter bills statements and the acknowl-
! edgments of receipt, of which the United States
exchange Offices shall make use, shall be conform
able to the model E, in like manner annexed to
! the present articles.
Article XIV. In eases where, on the days
fixed for sending the mails, office of exchange
shall have no letter to address to the correspond
2 2Iar1r off fha ne ion
shall, nevertheless, send in the ordinary form, a
mail which shall contain a negative letter bill or
statement
Article XIV. Letters which cannot be delivered
| from any cause whatever shall be returned on one
part and the other. at the end of each month, and
more frequently if possible. Those of such letters
which shall have been placed in the account shall
| be returned for the at which they have been
| originally counted by the sending Office Those
which shall have been delivered prepaid to desti-
nation to the frontier of the corresponding Of
fee shall be returned without charge or deduction.
| The deduction resulting from charges on cores
pondenee which cannot be delivered shall be es-
| tablished in detailed memorandums, conformable
| to the model F, annexed to the present articles
Article XVI. There shall be prepared every
! three months, at the French General Post-Oftice,
precise accounts. recapitulating the facts relative
to the transmission of correspondence between the
| respective offices of exchange. These accounts.
! which shall have for their base and for vouchers
| the Acknowledgements of receipt of mails sent and
received during the period of three months, shall
be recapitulated in general account, intended to
present the definite results of the transmission of
| correspondence exchanged between the two de-
| partments.
After having been discussed and objections set
| tied, the balance of the general account above
| mentioned shall be paid by the department which
shall be found indebted to the other in the course
of the quarter which shall follow that to which
the account relates.
The amount of the accounts shall be paid as
| follows:
| LIST. In drafts on W ashington when the payment
shall be in favor of the United States Post Office.
| I'd. In drafts on Paris when the payment shall
be made in favor of the French Post-Office.
In the latter case the amount of the account
shall be paid in French money, at the rate of five
| francs thirty centimes per dollar.
I Article XVII. The present articles shall take
| effect on the first day of April, 1857, and they
shall remain obligatory until of the two post
| Offices shall have informed the other a year in
| advance, of its intention to abrogate them.
During this last year the before mentioned arti-
cles shall continue be fully and entirely execu
ted, without prejudice to the liquidation and pay
| m mt of the an omit of the accounts between the
postal departments of the two countries after the
| expiration of the said term.
| Made in duplicate original sand signed at Wash
| ipgton, the second day of March, in the year of
| our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
| seven.
| JAMES CAMPBELL, [sEAL]
P. NJ. General,
! SARTIGES, [sEAL.]