The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-03-22

u ARTICLE VIII. The prepayment Of postage upoI
ordinary letters exchanged between the Unitet
States and Italy shall be optional; but letters no
prepaid, insuficiently prepaid shall, be charged
cents in the United States and Of 80 confines il
Italy. The prepayment of postage upon all Other
articles including registered letters shall be com
pulsory; and when they shall be in no part pre-
paid they shall not be dispatched; but in such
case the, shall be- if practicable, restored to the
sender.
ARTICLE TX. The articles under band, which
shall be in part prepaid shall be forwarded to their
destination; but they shall be charged there with
twice the amount of the difference between the
! 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 eie,
ments, to wit: Q) The interior rate OF the United
states; (2) The interior rate of Italy; 81 The
maritime rate; az The intermediate transit rate;
| and any reduction which either country may OBJ
tain from the existing maritime and transit charges
shall inure to the benefit of the people OF the two
countries by corresponding reduction of the in
ternationa rates Of postage established in the fol-
lowing article soon as the two departments shall
have adjusted the amount.
For letters from the United States, fifteen cents.
For letters from Italy. eighty centisimi.
For all other correspondence mentioned in the
second paragraph of the first article, it shall be
that which the despatching administration shall
adopt for the mails it dispatches, adapted to its
own convenience, but each administration shall
icform the other Of the rate it adopts, and OF any
change of it.
The correspondence of any kind, insuffciently
prepaid, shall be dispatched, but shall be charged
by the receiving administration with the deficient
postage as well as the fine aforesaid.
ARTICLE XIV. 1t Is distinctly agreed that all
mailable articles addressed from one country to the
other shall be exempt in the country Of destina-
ton from any rate or fee whatever beyond the |
charges established by the convention.
ARTI LIZ XVI. Correspondence exclusively re- |
lating to the postal service shall be transmitted
on both sides without any postal charge therefor.
ARTICLE XVII. Correspondence Of all kinds en- |
transmitted, or wrongly addressed, shall
be promptly returned to the despatching Office |
Articles which shall have been addressed to per- |
sons who have departed from the place at destina-
ton, leaving their address, shall be forwarded, or
returned, as the case may require, charged with |
the postage which the Addressee would have been
required to pay on delivery.
ARTICLE XVIII. Letters allreSistered articles,
and all documentary manuscripts. which shall not
be delivered to their address, shall be restored
the despatching department. Any VI these articles
which may have been forwarded by one department
to the other on account shall be restored, and
credit taken for the amount originally charged by
the deepatching Office. But samples Of merchan-
able ar icles not excepted which cannot be deliv-
cred to their address, shall remain at the disposal
Of the receiving department, provided they shall
not be reclaimed by the sender or addreseee within
nix months from the date Of their despatch.
ARTICLE XIX Neither Post Department Is
required to make distribution within its jurisdic-
lion Of any articles the circulation Of which shall
be prohibited by the laws in force in the country
Of destination.