The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-09

countries shall designate, by common accord, the Of
fees through which the exchange of the respective
the direction of the correspondence reciprocaly
transmitted the form OF accounts, well as every
other of detail order necessary 10 assure
the execution OF the said convention, have agreed as
follows.
ARTICLE I.
The exchange of correspondence between the pos
tai administration of France and the postal admins
tration of the United States shall be effected fol-
lows:
ON the eide of the postal administration of France
1st By the office of Paris.
3D. By the Office of Havre.
3r. By the office of Cherbourg.
4th. By the Office of Brest.
5th. By the travelling Office of Paris to Calais
9th. BY the travelling Office of Lille to Calais.
On the side of the postal administration to the
United States
LIST. By the office of Boston.
3D. By the office of New York.
ARTICLE II.
The relations between the French exchange offices
and the American exchange-otfices shall be estab-
lished in the following manner, viz:
By the scay ofthe French mail-packets. -The Off
of Paris, Havre, and Brest shall correspond with
the office of New York.
The offices OF Paris and Hayre shall make up mails
for the office of New York, and the office of New
York shall make up mails for the offices of Paris,
By the acay Of Engtand.-The offices of Paris and
Hayre and the travelling offices Of Paris to Calais
ARTICLE III.
In conformity with Article 1 of the convention of
28th April, 1874, the postal administration of the
United States shah pay on account of the postal adj
diary transportation of the mails which shall be sent
from France to the United States, as well by means
fhs a sa s
the packets used for the conveyance of the
pondence of the British Kingdom to the United
States.
These expenses shall be reimbursed by the postal
administration of France to the postal administration
of the United States, as follows:
list. At the rate OF 30 confines per thirty grammes
of letters, and so confines per klogramme of sam.
pies of merchandise printed NATTER for such of the
said mails as shall be forwarded by means of the
Hamburg packets
I'd. At the rate of A centimes per thirty grammes
Of letters, and one franc per kogramme of samples
of merchandise or printed matter for such of the
said mails as shall be forwarded by the way of Eng
land and the packets used for the conveyance Of the
correspondence between England and the United
States.
On its side, the postal administration of France
shall assure on account of the postal administra-
tion Of the United States the Intermediary trans,
portation 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 ad
ministration of France the same rates, per thirty
grammes OF letters and per kilogramme of samples
the intermediary transportation is herenabove fixed,
by Hamburg packets, of the mails from France for
the United States
ARTICLE ~.
The correspondence exchanged between the postal
administration of France and the postal administra-
ton OF the United States shall be forwarded in con-
formity with table A. annexed to the present regula-
tons.
ARTICLE v.
Correspondence sent in transit in open mail, con-
formally to Article VII of the convention OF 2sth
April 1874, shall be exchanged between the postal
administration of France and the postal admins ira
ton OF the United States the conditions respective
y fixed by the said article and by tables and G,
annexed to the present regulations.
The postage-charges which the two administrations
shall have mutually to carry to account for this cor
change-ofices in ordinary figures, and uniformly on
the upper LETT side of the address, as follows:
In red ink on prepaid objects entered by the dis
patching office to the credit OF the corresponding
In black ink on unpaid objects entered by the dis
patching Office to the debit of the corresponding
office.
Registered letters which shall be reciprocally for
warded by the postal administrations of France and
the address, with stamp, bearing in red ink the
word "Charge," or the word Registered" as the
case may be.
ARTICLE VII.
Ordinary letters, registered letters samples of mer
chandise, and printed matter, sent either from the
offices depending upon the postal administration of
which the United States serves as intermediary. or
from the offices depending upon the postal admins
tration OF the United States for France Algeria and
the countries to which France serves intermedi-
ary shall be marked the side of the address with
stamp. indicating the date of mailing and the place
of origin.
ARTICLE VIII.
The postal administration of the United States
shall to be placed on the address Of the prepaid
objects which the American exchange-offices shall
forward to the French the impress
On its side, the postal administration of France
shall cause to be placed the impression, In red INK of
tn TIM and Of the Stamp .P upon the objects
prepaid by compulsior to any limit whatever of their
course which shall be forwarded by the French ex-
chaage-ofices to the American exchange-offces
The stamp Acknowledgement insu6isant," or "Ir-
sufficiently prepaid" as the may be, shall be
placed upon letters insuffciently paid.
ARTICLE TX.
Each of the Imails exchanged between the postal
administrations of the two countries shall be accom-
panied by a letter-bil upon which the exchange
offices shall state, with the cassifeations established
by the convention of 2sth April, 1874 as follows:
list. The nature and the number of the objects
which the mail shall contain.
I'd. The number of single rates relating to the cor
respondence of the of the two countries for the
Sd. The weights or sums to be carried to account
for each class of correspondence.
The office to which the mail shall be addressed shall
acknowledge the receipt thereof to the dispatching
office by the first mail thereafter
the French shall conform to models
D and E, annexed to the present regulations.
The forms of the letterbill and acknowledgment Of
receipt of which the American exchange-ofices shall
make use in their relations with the French ex'
change-ofces, must accord with the models herein
above designated.
ARTICLE x.
The correspondence described in the letter-bill
shall be divided into many packets as this cores
pondence will admit of lines or special articles.
Each packet shall be placed under label indicat-
as well as the number of objects and the number of
singlerates the sums as the case may be, inscribed
upon the letter-bill.
Registered letters shall be entered by names on the
letter bill Of the dispatching office, with all the de-
tails which this bill allows.
These letters shall form special packet, covered
with an envelope of white paper, sealed on all the
folds by of the seal of the dlspatchng office,
and surrounded by string placed crosswise: The
ends of this string shall be attached to the bottom OF
the letter-bill by means of gum seal.
The letter-bill must bear the stamp "Charge" or
Registered" whenever the mail shall contain or
more registered letters.
ARTICLE XII.
Every mail. after having been tied up interiorly,
must be enveoped in gray paper in sufficient guam
tity to resist the friction, tnen tied exteriory and
SEAL
The string which shall surround mail exteriorly
must always be without knot.
ARTICLE XIII.
In case that, on the day fixed for the dispatch of
the mails, an exchaDge-ofice should have object
to address to the corresponding office, this exchange
office must nevertheless send, in the ordinary fOrm
mail, which shall contain only negative letter.
bill.
ARTICLE XIV.
The postage or charge upon letters that have be-
come dead, from whatever cause. which the two ad-
mnstratiOns shall return to each other by virtue Of
Article XIII of the convention OF 2Sth April, 1874
shall only be admitted in release of the administra
ton to which these letters shall have been originally
transmitted, so far the condition of their seals
shall not give reason to suppose that they have been
opened.
However scurrilOus letters and those commonly
called decOy letters may be comprised and admitted
in the dead matter recprocay returned, even
though these letters may have been opened
ARTICLE XIV.
Letters not claimed addressed poste-restante or in
furnished hotels. may, after three months stay, be
returned both sides, under the conditions fixed by
Article KILL before cited and the preceding article
The account of the total of dead matter shall be
prepared in bordereaux, conforming to the model F,
to the present regulations.
ARTICLE XVI.
1t agreed that the provisions Of the convention Of
2Sth April 1884, and of the present regulations shall
be put into execution the list of August. 1874
9th of june 1874 and Paris the 26th OF june 1874
GsEAL,l JNO. A. j: CRESWELL,
Postmaster General.
[sEAL.1 LIE LIBON,
Director General Of Posts.
AGENCIES.