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Rh transit charges, to be paid to each of the countries traversed, or whose services participate in the conveyance, viz:

1st. For territorial conveyance, 2 francs per kilogram of letters or post-cards, and 25 centimes per kilogram of other articles;

2nd. For maritime conveyance, 15 francs per kilogram of letters or post-cards, and 1 franc per kilogram of other articles;

4.—It is, however, understood—

1st. That wherever the transit is already gratuitous at present, or subject to more advantageous conditions, such condition is maintained, except in the case provided for in paragraph 3d, following;

2nd. That wherever the maritime transit charges are fixed at present at 5 francs per kilogram of letters or post-cards, and at 50 centimes per kilogram of other articles, these charges are maintained;

3d. That every maritime conveyance not exceeding 300 nautical miles is gratuitous, if the Administration concerned is already entitled, on account of mails or articles benefiting by this conveyance, to the remuneration applicable to territorial transit; in the contrary case, payment is made at the rate of 2 francs per kilogram of letters or post-cards, and 25 centimes per kilogram of other articles;

4th. That in the case of maritime conveyance effected by two or more Administrations, the expenses of the entire transportation cannot exceed 15 francs per kilogram of letters or post-cards and 1 franc per kilogram of other articles; these expenses are in such case shared between those Administrations pro rata for the distances traversed, without prejudice to other arrangements between the parties interested;

5th. That the rates specified in the present Article do not apply either to conveyance by means of services depending upon Administrations foreign to the Union, or to conveyance within the Union by means of extraordinary services specially established or maintained by one Administration, either in the interest, or at the request of one or several other Administrations. The conditions of these two categories of conveyance are regulated by mutual agreement between the Administrations interested.

5.—The expenses of transit are borne by the Administration of the country of origin.

6.—The general settlement of these expenses takes place on the basis of statements prepared every three years, during a period of 28 days to be determined on in the Regulations of execution referred to in Article 20 hereafter.

7.—The correspondence between the Postal Administrations, the reply halves of double post-cards returned to the country of origin, articles reforwarded or missent, undeliverable articles, return-receipts, money orders, and