Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-10-23

II Ihutb hildll hSsuItt Ou utCbuul VI AuO Ipo-
tai administration of the United States, the
Intermediary transportation of the mails
which shall be forwarded from the United
States to France by means of the French
mail-packets.
The postal administration of the United
States shall pay for this transportation to
the postal administration of France the
same rates, per thirty grammes of letters
and per klogramme of samples of mer-
chandise or printed matter, as those at
which the Intermediary transportation is
hereinabove fixed, by Hamburg packets,
of the mails from France for the United
States.
ARTICLE 4.
The correspondence exchanged between
the postal administration of France and the
postal administration of the United States
shall be forwarded in conformity with
table A, annexed to the present regula-
tions.
ARTICLE 5.
Correspondence sent iu transit, in open
mail, conformably to Article VII of the
convention of 2Sth April, 1874, shall be ex-
changed between the postal administration
of France and the postal administration
of the United States on the conditions re-
spectvely fixed by the said article and by
tables and c, annexed to the present reg
ulations.
The postage-charges which the two ad
ministrations shall have mutually to carry
to account for this correspondence shall be
stated by the dispatching exchange -otfices
in ordinary figures, and uniformly on
the upper left side of the address, as fol-
lows:
In red ink, on prepaid objects entered by
the dispatching office TO the credit of the
corresponding office.
In black ink, on unpaid objects entered
by the dispatching office TO the debit of the
corresponding office.
ARTICLE
Registered letters, which shall be recipro-
cally forwarded by the postal administra-
tions of France and the United States, shall
be marked, on the side of the address, with
a stamp, bearing in red ink tha word
"Chdrge." or the word "Re1istered," as the
case may be.
ARTICLE7.
Ordinary letters, registered letters, SAM
Piles of merchandise, and printed matter,
sent either from the Offices depending upon
the postal administration of France for the
United States and the countries to which
the United States serves as Intermediary, or
from the Offices depending upon the postal
administration of the United States for
France, Algeria, and the countries TO which
France serves as intermediary, shall be
marked on the side of the address with a
lhhiCdtlhB TUG hdNO vi iliahlbB ohd
the place of origin.
ARTICLE 8.
The postol administration of the United
States shall be caused to be placed on the
address of the prepaid objects which the
American exchange-offices shall forward
to the French exchange-offices the impress
sion, in red ink, of the stamp Paid"
On its side, the postal administration of
France shall cause to be placed the impress
sion, in red ink, ofthe stamp "P. D." upon
the objects prepaid to destination and Of
the stamp "P. Pr upon the objects prepaid
by compulsion to any limit whatever of
their course, which shall be forwarded by
the French exchange-offices to the Ameri-
can exchange -otfices.
The stamp "AfrdnchisSemen insu6fis-
SAINT" "InSu1fcientiy prepaid" as the case
may be, shall be placed upon letters insult
ticiently paid.
ARTICLE 8.
Each of the mails exchanged between
| the postal administrations of the two coun-
tries shall be accompanied by letter. bill,
upon which the exchange-offices shall
| state, with the classiications established
by the convention of 2sth April, 1874, as
follows:
1st. The nature and the number of the
objects which the mail shall contain.
I'd. The number of single rates relating
10 tue correspondence OF the one oil the TWO
countries for the other.
80. The weights or sums to be carried to
| account for each class of correspondence.
| The office to which the mail shall be ad-
dressed shall acknowledge the receipt
thereof to the dispatching office by the first
| mail thereafter.
The letter-bills and acknowledgements OF
receipt of the French exchange offices shall
conform TO models d and Z, annexed tc
| the present regulations.
The forms OF the letter-bill and acknowl-
edgment of receipt, of which the American
eXchange-offices shall make use in their
relations with the French exchange Offices
must accord with the models herenabove
| designated.
ARTICLE 10.
The correspondence described in the
letter-bill shall be divided into as many
| packets as this correspondence will admi
OF lines or special articles.
Each packet shall be placed under la
bel, indicating the nature and the weigh
| of the correspondence, as well as the mum
Der of objects and the number of single
rates or the sums, as the case may be, in
scribed upon the letter-blll.
ARTICLE II.
Registered letters shall be entered by
names on the letter-bill of the dispatchinI
office, 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 sea
of the dispatching office, and surrounde'
by string placed crosswise. The ends O
this string shall be attached to the bottom
OF the letter-bill by means of gum seal.
| The letter-bill must bear the STAN
"Chdrge," or Registered" whenever tn
mail shall contain one or more registere'
letters.
ARTICLE IL.
Every mail, after having been tied u
interiorly must be enveloped in gray pa
| per, in sufficient quantity to resist tn
friction, then tied exteriorly and scale
with wax, with the impression Of the ot6c
seal.
The string which shall surround maj
extsriorly must always be without knot.
ARTICLE IS.
In case that, on the day fixed for the dis
patch of the mails, an eXchange-ottic
should have no object to address to tn
corresponding office, this exchange-ofhe
must nevertheless send, in the ordnar
form, a mail, which shall contain only
negative letter-bill.
ARTICLE IA.
7 The postage or charge upon letters this
have become dead, from whatever caus,
which the two administrations shall retur
, to each other, by virtue of Article XIII {
the convention of 2Sth April, 1874, sha
only be admitted in release of the admir-
I istration to which these letters shall hay
; been originally transmitted, so far as tn
! condition of their seals shall not give res
l son to suppose that they have been opened
However, scurrilous letters and thos
commonly called decoy letters, may l
comprised and admitted in the dead ma
ter reciprocally returned, even thoug
! these letters may have been opened.
a ARTICLE Is.
Letters not claimed, addressed post
: restante or in furnished hotels, may, aflt
; three months stay, be returned on bot
: sides, under the conditions fixed by Ariel
XIII, before cited, and the preceding art