Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-08
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
assed at the first seseon Of the Forty Third Congress
Article 7.

Article Z.
ordinaEy letters, registered letters, samples OF
merchandise aud printed matter sen. elner IRON
tion of France for the United States and the coun-
tries to which the United States serves as interme
diary or from the Offices depending upon the postal
administration of the United States for France, Al
gera, and the countries to which France serves as
Intermediary, shall be marked on the side OF me
address with stamp, indicating the date OF nalng
and the place OF origin
Article s.
The postal administration Of the United States
shall cause to be placed the address OF the pre-
paid objects which the American exchange onces
shall forward 10 the French exchange offlces, the
impression, in red ink, of the stamp PAID"
On Its side, the postal administration OF France
shall cause 70 be placed the impression, in red ink.
of the stamp " P. d. upon the objects prepaid to
destination and of the stamp up. p" upon objects
their course, witch shall be forwarded by the
French Exchange offices TO the American exchange
offices.
The stamp Acknowledgement insunsiant,n or
lnsuniclently prepaid as the case may be, shall
be placed upon letters insuficiently paid.
Article ..
Each of the mails exchanged between the postal
administrations OF the two countries shall be ac-
companed by a letter bill, upon which the exchange
offices shall state, with the classineatlons estao-
lshed by the convention OF 2sth April, 1874 as fol-
1st. The nature and the number of the objects
which the mail shall contain.
Cd The number OF single rates relating 10 the cor
respondence of the one of the two countries for the
other.
Sd. The weights or sums to be carried to account
for each class of correspondence.
The ofice to which the mail shall be addressed
shall acknowledge the receipt thereof the dispatch
lug office by the first mail thereafter.
The letter-bil's and acknowledgements OF receipt
Of the French exchange-ofiices shall conform 10
models and Il, annexed to the presentregulations
The forms OF letter-bil and acknowledgment OF
receipt, of which the American eNchange-oiflces
shall make use in their relations with the Wrench
exchange-ofices, must accord wi the modsls mere
inabove designated.
Article 10.
The correspondence described In the letter bills
shall be divided into as many packets as this cores
pondence will admit of lines or special articles,
Zach packet shall be placed under label, lndca-
ling the nature and the weight OF the correspond
ence well as the number Of objects and the mum
Der OF single rates or the sums, as the case may be,
inscribed upon the letter bill.
Article Ii.
Registered letters shall be entered by names on
the letter bill Of the dispatching olce with all the
details which this bill allows
These letters shall form special packet, covered
with an envelope OF white paper, sealed on all the
folds by means of the seal OF the dispatching oce
and surrounded by a string placed crosswise. The
ends of this string shall be attached to the bottom
Of the letter bill by means of gum seal.
The letter bill must hear the stamp "charge," o
"Regstered," whenever the mail shall contain 0n'
or more registered letters
Article i2.
Every mall, after having been tied up intcrlorly
must he enyeloped in gray paper, in suilclent quan
sealed with wax, with the impression OF the ohic
seal.
The string which shall surround mail eXteriOrl
must always be without knot.
Article 13.
IN case that on the day fixed for the dispat h @
the mails and exchange office should have no oil
Ject to address to the corresponding ofce, this eS
cnange Office must nevertheless send. in the ord
nary form, mail, which shall contain only mega
tive letter bill.
Article II.
The postage OF charge upon letters that have bt
come dead, from, whatever cause, which the tw
administrations shall return to each Other by yirtu
Of Article XIII of the convention OF fSth April, lsl
snail only be admitted in release OF the admnlstri
ton 10 which these letters shall have been original
transmitted, so far as the condition OF their sea
shall not give reason to suppose tnat they have bee
opened.
However, scurrllous letters and those common
called decoy letters, may be comprised and adml
led In the dead matter reciprocally returned, eve
though these letters may have been opened.
Article l5
Letters not claimed, addressed puste-restante
in furnished hotels, may, after three months sta
be returned on both sides, under the conditions a.
ed by Article XIII, before cited and the precedlI
article
The account Of the total Of dead matter shall
prepared in hordereauS, conforming to the mod
+, annexed 10 the present regulations.
Article 10.
II is agreed that the provisions Of the eonyentl'
OF 2stn April, 1874, and OF the present regulation
snail he put into execution the lst OF August, 1sI4
Done in duplicate and signed at Washington
9Th of June 1874, and at Paris the Seth Of Jul
1s7s. -
isEAL.l JNO. A j. CRESWELL
Postmaster General
lsRAL.l LIE LIBON,
director General Of Posts