The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-11

prepaid. on insufciently prepaid shal, Be charge
: in the county of de tination with extra rate Z
c. nts in the United States and OF 30 confines i
Italy. The prepayment Of postage upon all othe
articles including registered letters shal be com
8 pulsory; and when they shall be In no part pre-
paid they shall not be dispatched; but in sucl
case they shall be, If practicable, restored to tn
0 sender.
ARTICLE TX The articles under band which
shall be in part prepaid shs be forwarded to thei
destination; but they shall be charged there will
twice the amount Of the difference between tn,
| rate due and the sum actually prepaid.
| ARTICLE X. The international rate of postage
, upon the correspondence exchanged between the
two countries is based upon the following ele-
ments, to wit: 0) The interior rate Of the United
! states; (2) The interior rate of Italy; e The
mar time rate; az The intermediate transit rate;
and any reduction which either country may OBJ
tain the existing maritime and transit charges
shall Inure the benefit of the peap!e # the two
count, les by "a corresponding reduction of the in
ternatonal rates of stage estabi shed in the fol-
lowing article the two departments shall
| have adjusted the amount.
| ARTICLE Nj. The international rates. combined
| Of the elements alb mentioned and applicable
| to each STANDARD a. progression for the several
classes of maiable articles. are established a. fol
lows e. Wit: ~ For ordinary letters 20 cents in
| the Tn ted States aud l franc i'll Italy; e. F'r
registered letters in addition to the ordinary pre-
paid ,ate extr, cha' ge of 10 ces:s in the United
tia cs and of 50 Confines in Italy; 81 For docu-
mentary manu-cTipts. c,rFected p 90 $, and sam
md franc in Italy: ~ For jou fnals and ali otl
prints embracing articles MT otherwise enumer-
ate! the standard >in-le rate shall be fixed by the
d.s,atcti:,s department limited nevertheless, by
the maximum rae Of cents in the United states
and ~ Is cent mes IN Italy
ARTICLE XII of the combined rate Of inter-
nttinn-l letter postage hereby established, three
c. nts represents the in.eri-r single rate # the
Tniiei States ard fifteen confines the interior
single rate Of Italy. The remainder of the COM
tinei rate i. assigned to the payment Of the cost
of sea nyey ance and If Intermediate transit by
whatever r, ute the mails may be conveyed
AKrIci E XIII. Articles under band described
in the third and fourth paragraphs of Article ".
# this convention may be registered IN either
country r despatch to the other. upon payment
of the registration fee Of ten cents in the United
States and IF fifty centimes in Italy, in addition
to the prepayment Of the regulsr postage.
ARTICLE XIV. In order to simplify postal ac-
cunts between the departments as much as pos
bic. and 10 prepare tire way for their ultimate |
abolition each Post Department she'll retain to its
| the postal rates and charges which it |
shalt collect, whether by virtue If prepayment OF
p st pa, ment; and each department shall! pay the
cost of CONVEY Of tie mil which it'!espafches
as Tar the frontier Of the country of Destination
1t is also especially provided that the cost Of INTER
mediate ocean and land conveyance of the closed
mails shs be first Sefrayei by That one Of the |
two departments which -hall have obtained from
the in ermediares the most favorable pecuniiry
conditions of such conveyance. ard any amount
50 paid by one department for account of the other
shall b reimbursed.
ARTICLE Ky. 1t il distinctly agreed that all
maiab articles addressed from country to the
other shall b. exempt in the country IF de~tina-
tion from any rate or f. whatever beyond the
charges established by the convention,
AhTI XVI Correspondence exclusively re-
atiug to the postal service shall be transmitted
IN both sides without any postal charge therefor
ARTICLE XVII. Correspondence of all kinds err
-onenu " 7nitted WRONGLY ad dressed. shall
be promptly returned to the despstching Office.
articles which ehail have been addressed to per
IONS VINO have departed from the place af destina
ion. leaving their address, sball be forwarded, or
as the case may require. charged with
he p stage which the addressee would have been
to pay delivery
Article XVIII. lie tiers, all registered articles.
md all documentary manuscripts which shall not
he despatching department. ANY If these articles
which m " we been forwarded by one department
o the other mt shall lie restored and
redit taken for Il amount originally charged hy
he despatching Office But samples of merchan- {
ise newspapers prints of all knis. and all mail v
BILE icles not excepted which ctunnt be deliv- n
red TO their address, shall remain at the disposal b
the receiving department. provided they shall p
ot be reclaimed b. he sender or a3dressee within
tx months fir, m The date Of their despatch. c
ARTICLE XIX Neither Post Department is Il
equ:r.d to make distribution within lis jurisdic- e
ion Of any articles the circulation If which shall
e prohibited BE- the laws in force in the country
destination. 10
Article XX The Post Departments Of the
nted States and Of Italy reciprocaily engage to r.
rant each TO the other the gratuitous conveyance
their respective te rfories of all correspond
which shall be exchanged in Closed mails with ii
countries to which they respe, lively serve
Intermediates: provided always. that such con- b
eyance shall BE- effected by the ordinary means ff
mail conveyance in use; and that the countries
king the benefit Of suct gratutous service shall b
.cp ocaliy accord the like privilege Of free tran
{ across their respective territori-s The privi-
ge is also accorded to each administration of !,
nding agent, at its own expense. in charge Of -
re mails in tFan-it. The further privilege is y.
corded of free transfer of closed mails in the u'
,rfs and harboTs Of the respective countries from N
vessel to another, in continuance Of their con- VI
vance TO final destination ~
Article XXI Small sams of money may be u
utually transmitted between the two countries ut
means of postal money orders, and the rates :. !.
ID nations may be arranged by an agreement NJ
tween the two departments after the sy stem Of !,
stall money ORDERS shall have been adopted by sn
e United States. -
all have been adopted by the two departments, W
is agreed that, FIR the purposes OF this conven oe
N, fifteen grammes shah be taken the ,qui'
mt ola half ounce, forty grammes as the equiv co
mt Of one ounce and ha f. and 80 with their re- on
ective nutples in progression applied b, the Of
les upon correspondence shall be applied accord tn
, to the weight stated by the despAtching de- col
rtment except in case Of manifest error. do
ART Gle XIV The two departments shall
tie by agreement between them all measures bill
detail and arrangement required to carr into cen
ect this convention, which may be n Odfied Ita
m time to time by special arrangements to be
reed urcn directly between the two Post De- rhs
-tmeDts. mol
n witness whereof the respective plenipoten-
ries have sigued the present convention and he
re affixed thereto their seals. .-s Of
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