National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-05
forwarded in conformity with iab:e A, annexed
TO the lTGsen, regulations.


OF 18th April, 1871, shall be exchanged be
tween the postal administration Of France an,
the postal administration Of the United State
on the conditions respectively fixed by the sail
article and by tables B and'C, annexed to thu
present regulations.
The postage-charses which the two admins
trations shall have mutually to carry to &C
count for this correspondence shall be STATED
by the dispatching exchange-offices in ordnarl
figures, and uniformly on the upper left side o.
the address, as follows:
In red ink, on prepaid objects entered by the
dispatching Office to the credit Of the CORE,
spending Office. .... I
In black ink, on unpaid objects entered q
the dispatchinS Office to the debit of the cofe-
spending office.
ARTICLE 6.
Registered letters, which shall be veipro-
cally forwarded by the postal administrations
of France and the United States, hall be
marked, on the side Of the addres, with
stamp, bearing in red ink the word fChdrgs,"
or the word " Registered" IS the cae may De-
ARTICLE z.
Ordinary letters, registered letters, samples
of merchandise, and printed matter, sent
either from the offices depending upon the
postal administration of Francs for the United
States and the countries to which the United
States serves as intermediary, or from the
offices depending upon ne postal administra-
ton of the United Stses for France, Algeria,
and the countries to6hich France serves as
shall b marked on the side OF
The address with camp, Indicating the date
Of mailing and fireplace Of origin.
ARTICLE 6.
The postal administration Of the United
States shall cause TO be placed on the address
of the prepaid objects which the American
exchange-oiises shall forward to the French
the impression, in red ink, OF
the stamp 'Fdid."
On its SIDE, the postal administration OF
France shsll cause to be placed the impress
sion. in red ink, of the stamp "P. D." upon
the obiecis prepaid to destination; and Of the
stamp 'tP. p" upon the objects prepaid by
compuIsion to any limit whatever Of their
course, which shall be forwarded BY the
French exchange-offices to the American ex-
The stamp "Afrd,lchiSSsynsHt inSW1as1nt," or
Il InSufieientEy prepaid" as the case may be,
shall be placed upon letters insufiiciently paid.
ARTICLE 9.
Each of the mails exchanged between the
postal administrations of the two countries
shall be accompanied by letter-bill, upon
which the exchange offices shall state, with the
established by the convention OF
18th April, 1874, as follows:
LIST. The nature and the number OF the oo-
jects which the mail shall contain.
ID. The number of single rates relating to
the correspondence of the one of the two eoun-
tries for the other.
Sd. The weights or sums to be carried TO ac-
count for each class of correspondence.
The office to which the mail shall be sd.
dressed shall acknowledge the receipt thereof
TO the dispatching office by the first mail there
after.
The letter-biIls and Acknowledgements Of re-
,eipt of the French exchange offices shall con-
form to models D and E, annexed to the pres
INT regulations.
The forms Of the Ietter-bIll and acknowledge
nent of receipt, of which the American eX-
change offices shall make use in their relations
With the French exchange offices, must accord
With the models hereinaboVe designated.
ARTICLE 10.
The correspondence described In the letter
I'LL shall be divided into as many packets as
his correspondence will admit of lines or
pecial articles.
Each packet shall be placed under label,
the nature and the weight of the
as well as the number OF
objects and the number Of single-rates or the
iums, as the case may be, inscribed upon the
etter-bIll.
ARTICLE II.
Registered letters shall be entered by names
IN the letter-bill of the dispatching office, with
III the details which this bill allows.
These letters shall form e special packet,
overed with an envelope of white paper,
called on all the folds by means Of the seal of
he dispstchIng office, and surrounded by
trfnR placed crosswise. The ends of this
firing shall be attached 10 the bottom of the
etter-hiIl nv means of q rum seal,
The letter-bill must bear the stamp
CHARGE" or "RegiStsrcd," whenever the
nail shall contain one or more registered
letters.
ARTICLE 10.
Every mall, after having been tied up in
eriorly, must be enVeloped in gray paper, in
efficient quantity TO resist the friction, then
led eKteriorly and sealed with wax, with the
impression of the ofice-seal.
The string which shall surround mail eX-
eriorly must always be without knot.
ARTICLE Is.
In case that, on the day fixed for the dispatch
If the mails, an exchange office should have
10 object to address to the corresponding office,
his exchange office must nevertheless send, in
he ordinary form, a mail, which shall contain
only negative letter-bill.
ARTICLE IA.
The postage or charge upon letters that have
become dead, from whatever cause, which the
,wo administrations shall return to each other,
1y virtue of Article XIII Of the convention of
18th April, 1874, shall only be admitted in re-
ease of the administration to which these let
,ers shall have been originally transmitted, so
ar as the condition Of their seals shall not give
-easOn to suppose that they have been opened.
However, scurrilous letters and those CON-
monty called decoy letters may be comprised
md admitted In the dead matter reciprocally
-eturned, even though these letters may have
)een opened.
ARTICLE Is.
Letters not claimed, addressed poSts-rsStdRts
)r in furnished hotels, may, after three months
stay, be returned on both sides, under the con-
li.iOns fixed by Article XIII, before cited, and
,he preceding article.
The account Of the total Of dead matter shall
be prepared in bordereaux, conforming TO the
model F, annexed to the present regulations.
ARTICLE 16.
II is agreed that the provisions Of the con-
Vention of 2Sth April, 1874, and of the present
shall be put into execution the LIST
Of August, 1874.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washington
The 9th of June, 1874, and at Paris the 18th of
SEAL JNo. A. J. CREsWELL,
POstmaster-Generai.
LsBAL.1 LIE LIBON,
Director General Of Posts.