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POSTAL rOEVENTTON
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF
FRANCE.
Conclullsd4gri! 2S, 1874.
(Ce.itIed.
ART1Li XII.
POSTAL IONKENTTON


Co1cIuGsd4IrE 2S, 1874.
(Ce.italed.
ART1Li XII.
Ordinary or regisarel letters, SAMPLES Of
merchandise, photographs, and printed matter
wrongly addressed wrongly sent, shall be,
without delay, rceiToclIly returned through
the intermediary 9th, respective exchange
Offices for the weight All rate at which the
sending Office shall hveleliyered these objects
in account to the othr efice.
Articles Of the sam uture, which may have
been sent to addresses Tho have LEFT for the
country of origin of hee letters, shall be re-
sPectively returned, HSged with the postage
which would have benpaid bythe addresses.
Ordinary letters ad articles under band,
which shall have orliIRlly been delivered 10
the postal administrator of France, or to the
postal administratio Of the United States, by
other administrators, and which, IN conse-
Guence ofchange of.si(ence oIthe addresses,
must be returned frn one OF the Two countries
10 the other, shallbe reciProcally delivered,
charged with the Pta9e required at the place
of first destination.
AR'CLE XIII.
Ordinary or regte1d letters, samples Of
merchandise, phOtOaIhs, and printed matter,
exchanged in open .giB between the two pos
fol aNmiUlEtTlllOlBA Euu Vi kuG ulIeu
States, and which laF be found undelivers-
HE. for any cause hasoever, must be recip-
rocsIIy returned atleeud of each month, and
cftencr if possible.
such articles as raj have entered into the
accounts shall be ettrned for the rate at
which they shall h9 been originally entered
on the account by u dspatching office.
Such as shall havbCu delivered prepaid to
destination or to thCrntier of the correspond
ing Office shall DO ruined without charge or
discount.
ARCIE XIV.
The postal admiItrlJiOn of France and the
postal administ ratiUithe United States shall
designate by commCascord the offices through
which the exchan Of the respective CORE
spOndence should te place; they shall regu-
late the routes Of correspondence reciprO-
caIy transmitted, / the form of the accounts
mentioned in the 7eceding article XI, and
also every other Bure of detail or order ne
cessary to assure execution of the stipuls-
tions Of the presenonventiOn.
1t is understood It the measures designated
above may be mold by the two administrs-
tions whenever, bymmon accord, they shall
perceive such mccoy.
AICLE XIV.
The present conltion shall have force and
effect from the d. agreed upon by the two
parties, and shall rain obligatory from yearto
year, until one ohs two parties shall have
made known to tbther, year In advance,
its intention to tenate the same.
During this layear the convention shall
continue to have and entire force, without
prejudice 10 the lidation and the balance Of
the accounts betwl the respective admins
trations AFTER the JiratiOn Of said term.
AIcLE XVI.
The present comtion shall be ratified and
the Publications Ganged as soon as possible.
In faith OF VIII the respective plenipoten-
tiaries have signeshe present convention and
have affixed theials thereto.
Done in dupliciand signed in Washington
the twenty-eighthy Of April, in the year of
our Lord one tIssnd eight hundred and
seventy-four.
IsEAL.1 D. A. J. CRESWELL,
Postster General of the Z. s.
TsE,..1 A. BARTHOLDI.
I hereby appe the sforegoing conven-
ton, and in testJny thereof have caused
the seal OF the Ind States to be affixed.
TsEAL.l U. S. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
WASHING TON, ,rfl g, 1874.