The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-12-03
POSTAL CONVENTION
BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
REPUBLIC OF FRANCE.
Concluded April 2s, 1874.

minister plenipotentiary from France at Washing
ton, &C., in the name of his government and Q,
| virtue of the powers which he has formally pre-
sented TO this effect, have agreed upon the follow
| ing articles, viz:
ARTICLE /.
There shall be between the postal administration
| of France and the postal administration OF tn
United States an exchange, in closed mails, or let
printed matter of all kinds by the following mean
| of communication and transportation, viz:
1st. By the French mail-packets.
| I'd. Bv the packets of the Hamburg line.
3d. BY the way of England and the packets EN-
| ployed in transporting the mails between Grea
| Britain and the United States.
The expenses arising from the transportation o.
the mails bv any one of the routes
shall he defrayed by the dspatching Office but it i:
understood that these expenses shall be betrayed ii
both directions by that of the two administrations
which is able to secure the transportation upon tnt
most favorable terms, the other administration tf
reimburse to it its share of the said expenses.
The United States postal administration, now.
ever, shall pay to the postal administration OF
| France, for the conveyance of mails sent from the
United States to France by means of the French
| packets, the same sea-rates those which the
said United States postal administration would pay
according to American legislation for the maritime
| conveyance of the same mails by steamers of COM
merce. 1t is also understood that these rates are
not be lower than those which the postal admin
veyance Ivy the Hamburg packets of the mails
which it shall send by these packets to the United
States.
Persons who desire to send ordinary, that is to
say not registered, letters, either from France and
Algeria for the United States and its territories, OF
from the United States and its territories for France
and Algeria may, at their option, leave the postage
said letters to be paid by the addresses or they
| can prepay said postage TO destination.
ARTICLE III.
The charge to be levied in France upon letters
originating in or addressed to the United States
shall be so centimes per 10 grammes or fraction OF IL
grammes, under the reservation for the French
government of the power of hereafter applying the
progression of 10 grammes. The charge to be
levied In the United States upon letters originating
in or addressed to France shall be cents per 10
grammes or fraction of 10 grammes. Independent
" of the chargeSmentOned above, fixed fee OF q
centimes or cents, as the case may be, shall be
levied upon the unpaid letters.
In regard TO the letters insuficiently paid by
means of postage-stamps, they shall be treated
as unpaid letters, saving deduction of the
amount of the postage-stamps; but when the
charge resulting from this deduction shall give a
ican, entire half decline or cent, as the case may
be, shall be levied for the fraction.
ARTICLE ".
The public of the two countries may send letters
| registered, from one country to the other.
The postage on such registered letters must al
| ways be prepaid to destination.
Every registered let er sent from France and Al
geria to the United States and its territories shall
Dear, departure, dQQlIlOl 10 Ile postage Hp-
plicable to an ordinary paid letter of the same
weight, fixed fee of so centmes and, reciprocal
ly, every registered letter sent from the United
States and its territories to France and Algeria
shall BEAR departure, in addition to the postage
applicable to paid letter of the same weight, q
fixed fee of 10 cents.
ARTICLE v.
| Samples of merchandise or of grains, photo
graphs, engravings, and Autographs, newspapers,
| periodicals, se~ed or bound books, pamphlets,
/ sheets nf mUsiC- cafa1OOuQa urOsnQcfUeeS.
nouncements, and various circulars, printed, en-
graved, Autographed, or autographed, which shall
be sent either from France and Algeria to the Uni,
ted States and its territories, from the United
States and its territories to France and Algeria,
must be prepaid, on both sides, to destination.
The rates of prepayment shall be fixed by the
government of the country Of origin.
ARTICLE VI.
Each administration shall retain the whole
| amount of the sums which it shall have collected
by authority of Articles III, ", and v preceding.
| 1t is formally agreed, between the two contract.
ing parties, that such objects as are designated in
the said article, which shall have been prepaid tC
destination, cannot, under any pretext title
whatever, be subjected, in the country of destina
ton to any postage or fee to the charge of the ad
| dressees.
The two administrations may reciprocaly deliver
in open mails ordinary letters and printed matter o
all kinds coming from addressed to the cOun.
tries to which they serve respectively as interme
diaries; and also registered letters coming from Oh
addressed to such of those countries to which the
payment of ordinary letters can be effected to des
| tinatiOn.
I This delivery shall take place according to the
| following arrangements:
The correspondence exchanged between France
or Algeria and the countries to which the United
States serve as Intermediates, shall be made sub
ject to the following settlements:
| 1st. To the payment by the French administra
ton, to the American administration, when tht
postage shall be collected in France Algeria of
rate of postage equal to that which is paid by the
inhabitants of the United States for the correspon
dence which they exchange with the same countries
| I'd. To the payment by the American admins
| tration 10 the French administration, when the
postage shall be collected in the countries to which
the United States serve as Intermediates, of rate
Of French postage of cents per 10 grammes OF
| fraction of 10 grammes for ordinary letters, of
cents per 10 grammes or fraction Of 10 grammes fol
registered letters, and of | cent per 40 grammes Of
fraction of 40 grammes for printed matter of al
kinds.
| The correspondence exchanged between the coun
| tries to which France serves as intermediary and
the countries to which the United States serve as
Intermediates, shall be made subject to the follow
| ing settlement:
1st. To the payment by the French administra
ton to the American administration If the postage
on the correspondence is collected in the countries
to which France serves Intermediary, of rate o
postage equal to the postage paid by the inhabitants
of the United States for the correspondence which
they exchange with the countries to which the Uni
ted States serve as Intermediates.
| I'd. To the payment by the American admins
tratiOn to the French administration if the postage
on the correspondence is collected in the countre:
to which the United States serves as Intermediates
of rate of postage equal TO that paid by the inhab
tants of France and Algeria for the correspondence
which they exchange with the countries to which
France serves as intermediary.
| The expenses of intermediate transportation be
| tween France and the United States of the cor
respondence TO which apply the provisions of the
present article shall be betrayed by that of the twc
postal administrations of France or of the United
States by which, or on the side of which, the post
| age shall be collected.
| ARTICLE VIII.
Samples of merchandise shall not be admitted tt
the benefits of reduced rate. unless they are il
| themselves of no commercial value unless they art
placed under band, or in such manner as to leave
no doubt of their nature, and unless they bear NJ
other writing by the hand than the address, mari
of fabric or of the merchant, numbers of order
and price.
In order to benefit by a reduced rate, the photo
graphs and printed matter mentioned in Articles
and VII should also be placed under band, and bea
no writing, figure, or sign whatever, made by hand
except the address, the signature of the sender,
| a date.
The samples of merchandise, photographs, ant
printed matter which do not fulfill the conditions
mentioned above, or which have not been prepaid
to the fixed limit, shall be considered as letters
and charged accordingly.
1t is understood that the provisions contained il
the present article and in Articles and VII pre-
ceding, do not impair in any manner the right o
the postal administrations of the two countries no
transportation and distribution of photographs
Autographs, engravngs, and printed matter, whicl
are not in accordance with the laws, ordinances,
DEGREES which regulate the conditions of their pub
lication and circulation both in France and in tn
United States.
ARTICLE X.
The postal administrations of France and tn
United States shall not admit to destination in eth
er OF the two countries, or in the countries usin
their intermediary, any package or letter containing
gold silver money, jewels, or articles of intrinsi
value or any object subject TO customs-ddty.
Liquids and articles which may injure the cor
respOndence, and which are prohibited in the cOun
try of destination shall not be admitted under an
form to be dispatched through the post-office.
No opackage of more than so centimetres or feet
American, in length, and of more than 80 centlme
tres or foot, American, in the other dimensions
can be sent from one of the two countries to tn
other through the post-offce.
ACTIcLE Y.
The French government agrees to cause to b
transported, in closed mails, either across Franc
, the correspondence which the postal ADMINISTERS
/ tion of the United States may desire to eXchang
with other countries by the Intermediary of tn
! French post-Office; and reciprOcally the Govern
| ment of tbe United States agrees to cause to b
i transported in closed mails, either across IN
United States or by means of American marflm
postal services the correspondence which the post
al administration of France may desire to exchang
with other countries by the intermediary VI III
United States pOst-ofhce: -,
The postal administration of France should pa
to the postal administration of the United States
viz: ,,. L,
, tiers, and one franc per klogramme on samples an