New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-16

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on the face.
Correspondence dispatched by a direc'
| line between the respective countries shall
be stamped Direct service" or Service
direct"
| When dispatched via England or via Ger
many, it shall be stamped to indicate British
or German transit.
ARTICLE TX.
/ The respective postal administrations are
mutually to furnish each other with lists,
stating the foreign countries to which the
| foreign postage, and the amount thereof,
must be absolutely prepaid, or can be left
unpaid; and until such lists are furnished,
| neither country, is to mail to the other any
correspondence for foreign countries be-
yond the country to which the mail is sent
Such lists shall also indicate the foreign
countries with which registered correspOn-
dence may be exchanged in the open mails
between the several offices and the condi-
tons thereof.
ARTICLE Z.
The respective exchange Offices shall
mark in red ak in the upper corner of the
address at the right hand, of prepaid letters
sent for transit in the open mail
the amount of the extra national postage
due to the country through which the same
are forwarded; and in the same manner
and place, but IN black ink, shall mark the
amount of the extra national postage due
to the forwarding country upon The unpaid
letters sent IN transit.
ARTICLE xl.
Articles under band, which do nos con-
form 10 the conditions mentioned in article
eleven OF the convention, OF which are In
no part prepaid, shall be retained by the
administration of origin, and shall remain
subject to its disposal.
ARTICLE XII.
Letters originating in or destined for for
elgn countries, sent in the open mail for
transit through the United States or through
Norway, and which are insutfcently paid,
shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and
no account taken between the respective
administrations of the amount prepaid.
ARTICLE XIII.
Letters and all registered articles not de-
Iverable shall be respectively returned to
the dispatcning administration at the end
OF every month; (see exhibits CT aud CT
But all other articles of correspondence not
registered, which, from any cause can not
be delivered, shall be retained at the dis
position OF the receiving country.
The unpaid hostages on the letters so re-
turned shall be deducted frsm the account
against the office originally charged there
with.
The prepaid hostages on the letters so re-
turned shall remain in the account as ORR
Ginally entered.
The expense Of transit of unpaid CORES
pondence which has been transported by
either administration in closed mails
and shall! be returned to the dispatching
Office as not deliverable shall be deducted
from the original amount charged tor
transit upon a declaration of the amount
by the Office claiming the deduction. No
charge shall be made by either administra-
ton for the transit of CORES pOndence re-
turned as not d%livera ole.
ARTICLE XIV.
All correspondence wrongly addressed OF
missent shal! be returned without delay by
the receiving Office TO the exchange office
which dispatched il.
The receiving office shall also correc, ac-
cordingly. in the column of veritcation the
original entries OF che Letter bill relating
60 such correspondence.
The articles of like nature addressed TO
persons who have changed their residence,
shall be mutually forwarded or returned,
charged with the rate that would have been
paid u. The first destination.
ARTICLE XIV.
The siispasching exchange office shall
state on the letter bills flor the conven-
fence ot the transit account), the exact
number OF single rates and weight of letters;
and the total weight of the correspondence
which shall be dispatched in closed mails by
tue British uS by the German transit.
ARTICLE Sv:.
1t IL understood that the accounts be
tween the two offices shall be established
on the respective letter bills, in the proper
money of the dispa.ching office, but the in
ternaslonal hostages ON the unpaid letters
or insutiiciently paid letters shall be COM
puteu in the money of the receiving office.
The reduction of these moneys shall be
effected ia the general accounts at the rate
OF - skiliings Of Norway fos one dollar Of
the United States.
In entering on Che Ye.tey bills the inter
national hostages Oh che partly paid letters
in the money of the Receiving office, and the
foreign charges in she money Of the dis
office. the cent Of the United
States shall be considered as the squiva-
lent Of one ant asne eighth shilling oI Nor
way.
1t is also understood that the quarterly
accounts shall be paid respectively in coin
and il the denonlu atoms of Sts SuDney OF
the creaitoy office
ABJICaE sSIY.
The s,uarte1ly accounts mentioned in
article thirteen of sine convention shall he
prepared by the respective postal admins
traIlons. 1hey snail De oaseo upon the
OF receipt, and shall re-
spectively be prepared according TO the
models Dl and DE- hereto annexed.
a recapitulation OF these accounts, show
ing the aetnitiye result, alike for the debit
and the credit. shall be prepared by the
United States office according to the form
hereto annexed and marked E.; and shall
then be transmitted with the quarterly ac
counts on which it Ss based, for the exaui-
ination of the other office.
Done in duplicate, and signed 40 wash
ington the twenty slxth jane, 1873, and 1T
Cis;s:SSn = che thirty first Nav, 1873.
John A. }. CRESWEIYs.
fostmasteS S.eaegss