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


of the United States for the correspondence when
they exchange with the countries to which the
United States serve as Intermediates.
ID 10 the payment by the American administra-
ton to the French administration, If the postage on
the correspondence is collected in the countries to
which the United States serve as Intermediates OF
rate of postage equal to that paid by the inhabitants
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 cores
pondence to which apply the provisions of the pres
ent article shall be betrayed by that OF the two postal
administrations of France OF the United States
by which, on the side of which, the postage shall
be collected.
Samples of merchandise shall not be admitted to
the benefits of reduced rate, unless they are in
themselves of commercial value unless they are
placed under band, or in such manner as to leave
doubt of their nature, and u less they bear no
other writing by the hand than the address, mark
of fabric or Of the merchant numbers OF ORDER anu
price.
In order to benefit by reduced rate, the photo
graphs and printed matter mentioned IN artleles
ana VII should also be placed under band and bear
no writing, figure, or sign whatever made Dy manu-,
except the address, the signature OF the SENDER or
date.
The samples of merchandise, photographs and
printed matter which do not fulfill the conditions
the fixed limit shall be considered as letters and
| charged accordingly.
II is understood that the provisions contained in
the present article. and in articles and VII pre-
cedng do not impair in any manner the right of the
postal administration of the two countries not to
permit upon their respective territories the trans
portation and distribution of photographs, litho
graphs engravings, and printed matter, which are
not in accordance with the laws, ordinances, or de-
which regulate the conditions of their publ
cation and circulation both in France and in the
United States.
ARTICLE TX.
The postal administrations of France and the
United States shall not admit to destination in
either OF the two countries in the countries using
their Intermediary any package letter containing
gold silver money Jewels or articles OF intrinsic
| Value OF any object subject to customs-duty.
Liquids and articles which injure the correspond
ence and which prohibited in the country of des
tination shall not be admitted under any form to be
dispatched through the poost-ottce
No package of more than 60 centimetres or two
feet American, in length, and of more than 80 cent?
metres or foot, American, in the other dimensions,
can be sent from one of the two countries to the
other through the post-office.
ARTICLEX Y.
The French government agrees to cause to be
transported in closed mails either across France
by means of the French maritime postal SERVICE the
| correspondence which the postal administration of
countries by the intermediary of the French post
office and reciprocally the government of the United
mails either across the United States or by means Of
American maritime postal services, the correspond
ence which the postal administration of France may
desire to exchange with other countries by the inter
mediary of the. United States post-office.
The postal administration of France should pay to
the postal administration of the United States, viz
list The sum Of francs per kilogramme on let
| tiers, and franc per kilogramme on samples and
prints, for the transportation across the territory of
the United States of the closed mails which shall be
exchanged between France and other countries via
San Francisco
I'd. The sum of 10 francs per kilogramme on let
| tiers and 1 franc per kilogramme on samples and
printed matter, for the transportation the ter
rtory of the United States of the closed mails which
shall be exchanged by any other route than that of
| San Francisco between France and its colonies OF
all other places where it shall have postal establish
ments, OF the countries with which it is at present
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Reciprocally the postal administration of the
United States shall pay to the postal adminisr alton
1st. The sum OF 81 20 per kilogramme on
letters, and 20 cents per kilogramme on pat
and matter tor the
shall be exchanged between the United States and
other States by the Franco-Belgan or Franch-G Ger
/ man frontier.
I'd. The sum of So per kilogramme on letters,
and 20 cents per kilogramme on samples and prints,
for the transportation French territory of the
closed mails which shall be exchanged by all other
points of the French frontier than those contiguous
| to Germany or to Belgium between the United
States and the countries with which the government
of the United States is at present bound by postal
conventions. Rai
/ When the closed mails coming from or addressed
to France shall be transported between the French
frontier and the American frontier by the packets
Of the Hamburg line, the postal administration Of
France shall pay to the postal administration Of the
United States, in addition to the American territorial
transit rates above mentioned the sum of 10 francs
per kiogramme on letters, and the sum of 50 cent
II
l ter, which may be contained in these mails.
Reciprocally, when the closed mails coming from
or addressed to the United States shall be trans.
ported between the American frontier and the French
frontier by the French mail packets, the United
States postal administration shall pay to the postal
administration OF France, in addition to the French
territorial transtrates above mentioned, the of
so per kilogramme on letters and 10 cents per kle
gramme ON samples and printed matter which may
be contained in these mails
The maritime postage for which the two postal adj
ministrations of France and OF the United States
hon tn
pondence of all kinds transported in closed mails by
packets other than those navigating between France
and the United states VIII Se me same as those ap
ing from addressed to the countries which
the maritime transportation of the said closed mails
1t is understood that the weight of the correspond
ence of all kinds which is found unbelievable,
also that of the etterbils and other documents Of
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two administrations for the account of the other,
shall not be included in the weight Of the letters,
levied the territorial and maritime transit-rates
/ quired in virtue of the present article.
ARTICLE XII.
There shall be prepared every three months, by
the postal administration of France particular ac
counts recapitulating the proceedings of the trans
mission of the correspondence between the respect
/ i've exchange offices.
vouchers the acknowledgements of receipts for the
mails during the quarterly period shall be summed
up in generakaccount designed to present the de-
fnitive results of the transmission of the
pondence exchanged between the two administra-
| tons.
proved the general account above mentioned shall
be paid by the administration recognized debtor
the tn he bs Of 1ne quar-
The balances of the accounts shall be paid as fol-
lows, viz:
1st In drafts upon Washington. and in Ameri-
can money, when the balance is in favor of the
United States office.
Cd In drafts upon Paris, and in French money,
xuha tbo hal mn 10 in Of no anob
In the establishment of the accounts, and in all
matters relative to the execution of the convention
the dollar shall be considered the equivalent of
francs 20 confines.
ARTICLE XII.
Ordinary or registered letters, samples of mer-
chandise, photographs, and printed matter wrongly
addressed wrongly sent, shall be, without delay,
reciprocay returned through the Intermediary of
the respective exchange offices for the weight and
rate at which the sending office shall have delivered
these objects in account to the other Office
Articles Of the same nature, which may have been
origin of these letters shall be respectively re-
turned, charged with the postage which would have
been paid by the addresses:
shall have originally been delivered to the ostal ad
ministraton Of France to the postal administra-
ton of the United States, by other administrations
and which, in consequence of change of residence of
the addresses must be sreturned from one of the
two countries to the other, shall be recprocaly de-
livered. charged with the postage required at the
place of first destination.
ARTICLE XIII.
Ordinary registered letters, samples of mer-
chandise photographs, and printed matter, ex-
changed in open mails between the two postal ad-
ministrations of France and of the United States,
and which shall be found unbelievable, for any
whatsoever, must be reciprocally returned 1t
the end Of each month, and oftener If possible.
Such articles as shall have entered into the ac-
counts shall be returned for the rate at which they
shall have been originally entered on the account by
the despatching office.
Such as shall have been delivered prepaid to des-
tination to the frontier of the corresponding Office
shall be returned without charge or discount.
ARTICLE XIV.
The postal administration Of France and the postal
administration Of the United States shall designate
by common accord the offices through which the ex-
change of the respective correspondence should take
place; they shall regulate the routes of the cores
pondence reciprocally transmitted and the form of
the accounts mentioned in the preceding article XI
and also every other measure of detail order nee
essary to the execution of the spuations of
the present convention.
1t is understood that the measures designated
above may be modified by the two administrations
whenever, by common accord, they shall perceive
such necessity.
ARTICLE XIV.
The present convention shall ave force and effect
from the day agreed upon by the two parties.
and shall, remain obligatory from year to year, until
of the two parties shall have made known to the
other, year in advance, its intention to terminate
the same.
During this last year the convention shall continue
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