The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06

fGtalned ny the receiving office, which
shall acknowledge, by the first mail. the
receipt of the registered articles, numer-
1cally, from No. : to No. =
II the Verification by the exchange office
lister Last. 1t shall be also. blythe first mail,
notltiep to the dispatching office.
ARTICLE VII.
The two administrations mutually en-
gage to take needful measures for the care
1ul transmission of registered correspond
ence, and for pursuing it when lost but it
is understood that neither assumes to-
wards the other any pecuniary response
D1l1ty IN case of loss.
ARTICLE VIII.
All letters exchanged between the two
offices shall indicate by stamps or writing
thereon the Office of origin.
Correspondence fully paid TO destination
shall be stamped in the United States Paid
4AH, and in Belgium r. u.
Registered articles shall be slammed Reg
iSered, in the United States, and Charge in
Belgium.
Correspondence insufficiently prepaid
shall be stamped in the United States In
sufficiently paid, and in Belgium 4GrdncHis-
Se7ReTt ilasu0isd1lt, and the amount of def
cient postage expressed in figures tblack]
Correspondence dispatched by a direct
line between the two countries shall be
stamped Direct Se7G'ice, OR SeTbfcf Direct.
If dispatched via England. 1t shall be
stamped to indicate British transit.
ARTICLE TX.
The two postal administrations may PIX
change i'll the open mails letters and other
correspondence with the foreign countles I
and upon the conditions indicated in lhe
tables ID Il and j. q, hereto annexed.
ARTICEE X.
The tables ID l" and ID %, hereto annexed,
also indicate the foreign countries with
which registered correspondence may be
exchanged in the open mails between ule
two offices, and the conditions thereof.
ARTICLE XII
The respective exchange offices shall
mark in rcd ink, in the upper corner of the
address at the right hand, of prepaid let
tiers sent for transit in the open mail the
amount of the postage due to the foreign
office of destination; and in the same mfal-
ner, but in black ink, shall mark the
amount of the postage due to the origihat-
ing office upon the unpaid letters sent IN
transit.
ARTICLE XII.
Articles under band which do not con
form to the conditions mentioned in Art.
XII of the Convention, or which are in mp
part prepaid, shall be retained by the ad
ministration of origin, and shall remail
subject to its disposition.
ARTICLE XIII.
Letters originating in or destiued fol-
foreign countries, sent in the open mai
for transit through the United States, OIL
through Belgium, and which are INSULT
ciently prepaid, shall be transmitted as
wholly unpaid, and no account taken be
tween the TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF the
amount prepaid.
ARTICLE XIV.
Letters and all registered articles not
deliverable shall be respectively returned
to the diSpatching administration at the
end of every month. tSee Exhibits q
The postage on unpaid letters so re
turned shall be deducted from the account
against the Office originally charged there
with.
The postage on prepaid letters so return
cd shall remain in the account as origin
ally entered.
The expense of transit of unpaid CORES
pondenec which has been transported by
either administration in closed mails, ani
shall be returned to the dispatching offict
as not deliverable, shall be deducted FROM
| the original amsunt charged for transi
upon declaration of the amount by the
office claiming the reduction. Mo charge
will be made by either administration fO
the transit of correspondence returned al
| not deliverable.
ARTICLE XIV.
All correspondence wrongly addressed
or missent shall be returned without delay
by the receiving office to the exchange OF
| flee which dispatched it.
| Tho receiving office shall also correct ac
cordingly, in the column of verification
| the original entries of the Letter-Bin re
| lating to such correspondence. The arti
| cleS of Il like nature addressed to persons
who have changed their residence shall b,
mutually forwarded or returned, charged
with the rate that would have been pait
at the first destination.
ARTICLE WI.
The dispatching exchange office shal
| state on the Letter-Bill for the British
| letters Tor weight, if rcquiredl and the to
| tai weight of the other correspondence
| which shall be dispatched in closed mail:
by the British transit.
ARTICLE XVII.
It is understood that the accounts be
/ tXynnO shall
| on the respective Letter-BillS, in the prop
er money of the dispatching office. FO
| the international charges the reduction o
! these moneys shall he effected in the gen
| eTal accounts at the rate of five francs ant
| fifteen centimes of Belgium for one dolla
| of the United States.
In entering the foreign charges on tn,
Letter-Bill, in the money of the sendins
| office, the cent shall be considered as th'
| equivalent of five centimes.
1t Is also understood that the quarterly
| accounts shall be paid respectively in gold
and in the denominations of the money o
the creditor office.
| ARTICLE XVIII.
The quarterly accounts mentioned il
! Art. XIV of the Convention shall be pre-
| pared by the respective dispatching office
| of exchange. They shall be based upol
the acknowledgements of receipt, and shal
respectively be prepared according to tn
models hereto annexed, end marked K I
! and + %. A recapitulation of these aC
| counts, showing the definitive result, alik
| for the debit and the credit, shall be pre-
pared by the United States office, accord
| ing TO the form hereto annexed, an,
marked + and shall then be transmitted
| with the quarterly accounts on which /
! is based for the examination of the othe
office.
| ARTICLE XIX.
1t is understood that Art. vi of the Con
| venfion, relative to q direct line of steam
| packets between the 4wO countries Shal
be carried into effect as soon as either ad
ministration shall notify the other of tn
establishment of such n line which it ha
| adopted for the dispatch of its mails.
Done in duplicate, and signed at Brussel
the 26th day of November, and at Pari
the 26th day of November, one thousan
| eight hundred and sixty-seven.
| IL, 81 JOHN A. KASSON
! Special Commissioner of the q. s. Post D.
| fdTtDte1d.
IL. 81 FASSIAUX,
Director General Of Railroads, Posts, an
Iele0rdpts.