New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-20
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 90 1874

for the country of origin of these letters
shall be respectively returned. charged
| with the postage which would have beer
paid by the addresses.
Ordinary letters and articles unde, band.
which shall have originally been delivered
to the postal administration of France, or
to the postal administration Of the United
States, by other administrations, and which
in consequence Of change Of residence OF
the addresses, must be returned from one
| of the two countries to the other. shall be
reciprocally delivered, charged with the
! postage required at the place Of first des'
| tnatiol.
ARTICLE XIII.
Ordinary or registered letters. samples OF
| merchandise. photographs, and printed
! matter, exchanged in open mails between
the two p0sta! administrations of France
and of the United States. and which shall!
be found unbelievable. for any cause
whatsoever, must be reciprocally returned
at the end CT each month. and otrenes IT
possible.
Such articles az shall, have entered into
the accounts shall DO returned for the rate
at which they shall have been originally
entered on the account by the dispatching
office.
Such as shall! have been delivered prepaid
70 destination or to the frontier of the cor.
responding office shall! be returned withou:
charge or discount.
ARTICLE: XIV.
The postal administration Of France and
the postal administration ct the United
States shall designate by common accord
the offices through which the exchange of
the respective correspondence should take
place: they shall regulate the routes Of the
correspondence reciprOcally transmitted.
and the form OF the accounts mentioned in
the preceding article eleven. and also every
other measure Of detail or order necessary
to assure the execution Of the s:ipulations
Of the present convention.
1t is understood that the measures desiy-
mated above may be modified by the two
administrations whenever. by common &C
cord. they shall perceive such necessity.
ARTICLE Nv.
The present convention shall! have force
and effect from the day agreed upon by the
two parties, and shall remain obligatory
from year to year. until one of the two
parties shall have made known to the other,
q year in advance, its intention to terMi-
nate the same.
During this last year the convention
shalt continue to have full and entire
force, without prejudice to the liquid.
alton and the balance Of the accounts be-
tween the respective administrations after
the expiration of said term.
ARTICLE XVI.
The present convention shall be ratified
and the notifications exchanged 40 soon as
possible.
In faith Of which the respective plenipo.
tentiaries have signed the present conven.
ton and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done in duplicate and signed at Wash.
ington. the twenty eighth day Of April. in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight |
hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL, |
Postmaster General of the Calted States.
A. BARTHOLDI.
hereby approve the foregoing conven.
ton. and in testimony thereof have caused |
the seal OF the United States to be affixed.
L. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary of State.
Washington. April %. 1874.