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

Such of those letters, etc., as shall have been
charged in the account, shall be returned for the
same amount of postage which was originally
ed in the discharge of the account of the Office to
which they transmitted.
Dead letters, ETC., which may have been receiv
ed in closed mails, and which cannot be produced
by the office which has to claim the amount, shall
be admitted for the same weight and amount OF
postage which was originally charged upon such
letters. &c, in the accounts of the respective Of
fees, on declaration, or on lists vouehing ior
the amount of postage demanded.
Article XIV Letters forwarded for the purpose
of annoying or injuring the parties to whom they
are addressed (the postage of which both offices
are authorized to return to the public even after
they have been opened) may be included and ad-
mitted with the dead letters mutually returned
Article XIV. Ordinary registered letters, BOOK
packets and patterns of merchandise, misdirected
or missent, shall be rcciprocaly returned without
delay, through the respective offices of exchange,
for the same weight and amount OF postage at
which they were charged by the dispatehing office
to the other office.
The articles of like nature addressed to per-
sons who have changed their residence shall be
mutually forwarded returned, charged with
the rate that would have been paid by the re-
ceiyers.
Article XVI. The detailed regulations agreed
upon between the post-offces of the United King
dom and of the United States, in the convention
signed at London the 18th of June, 1867 shall
cease to have effect and from the day on which
the present detailed regulations shall be put into
| operation.
Done in duplicate and signed in London the
seventh day of November, and in Washington the
twenty fourth day of November, thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight
| EsEAL. JOHN TILLEY,
Secretary General Post Office, London.
JOSEPH BLACKFAN,
! Superintendent Foreign Mails,
| General Post Office, Washington. [sEAL-]
| POSTAL CONVENTION WITH FRANCE.
Additional articles to the Postal Convention of
| March 2, 1857, between the General Post Of
/ fee of the United States of America and the
General Post Office of rance.
Article /. Independently of the correspondence
which shall be exchanged between the post-offces
of the two countries by the routes pointed out in
Article 1. of the convention of March two, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, those of
ices shall mutually forward from one to the other
/ letters, newspapers, and printed matter of all
kinds, by the Canadian mail packets, plying be-
tween Liverpool and Portland, OF between Liver
| pool and River du Loup.
Article II. The provisions Of Articles H., VI,
! VII, VIII, IN, X, XI., XIV. XIV, and
XVI, of the convention of March 2, thous-
and eight hundred and ffty-seven, concerning
/ letters exchanged between the French Office
and the United States Post-Ofice by British
packets and other British steam vessels perform
ing regular service between the ports of Great
Britain and the ports of the United States, shall
/ apply 10 Wnlcn snail De exchanged be-
tween the two post-offces by the route pointed
out in the preceding article.
Article III. The exchange of correspondence
between the French and United States Post-Offce
Departments shall take place through the follow
ing post-ofices
ON THE SIDE OF FRANCE.
l. Havre. 8. the travelling office
?. Paris. Paris to Calais.
| ON THE SIDE UNITED STATES.
| 1. New York. L. Portland.
! l. Boston. 5. Detroit.
3. Philadelphia. 6. Chicago.
| Article ". The relations between the French
and the United States exchange post-offices, de-
signated in the preceding article, shall be estab-
lished in the following manner:
list. The Havre office shall correspond with the
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia offices As
well by the packets and other steam vessels ply
ing between Havre and New York as by the
United States mal packets, the British packets,
| and other British steam vessels, and the Cana
dian packets performing regular service between
| the ports of Great Britain and the ports of the
| United States, or River du Loup; and with the
Portland, Detroit, and Chicago offices, by the
Canadian packets plying between Great Britain
| and Portland River du Loup.
I'd. The Paris office and the travelling office
| from Paris to Calais shall correspond with the
New York, Boston, and Ph Iadelphia offices by
| the United States mail Packets the British pack
| cts anu other steam vessels, and the Canadian
packets performing regular service between the
ports of Great Britain and the ports of the United
States, or Riserdu Loup; and with the Portland,
| Detroit, and Chicago offices by the Canadian
packets plying between Great Britain and Port
land, River du Loup.
Article v. The correspondence of all kinds ex-
| changed between the French Post-Ofice and the
United States Post-0ffice shall be directed con-
formally to Table A, annexed to the present ar
| tieles.
/ 1t is understood that the provisions of the
| aforesaid table may be modified by correspond
enee between the two offices, whenever these two
| offices mutually see the necessity for such modi-
| fcaton-
Article VI. The present articles shall be con-
/ sidered additional to the postal convention OF
| the second of March, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven, and shall come into operation on
| the first day of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washingto
the twenty second of February, and at Paris the
eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and
| sixty
| HORATIO KING, IsEAL]
/ Postmaster General of the United States.
| ST0URM, fsEALl