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Rh ordinary postage. It belongs to the Administration of the country of origin.

3.—If the article is destined for a locality where there is no post office, the Postal Administration of the country of destination may levy an additional charge, to the amount of the rate fixed for delivery by special carrier in its domestic service, a deduction being made of the fixed rate paid by the sender, or of its equivalent in the money of the country which levies this additional charge.

4.—"Express" articles upon which the entire charges payable in advance are not fully prepaid, are delivered by the ordinary means.

1.—No additional charge is levied for the reforwarding of postal articles within the interior of the Union.

2.—Undeliverable articles do not give rise to a restitution of the transit charges due to intermediary Administrations for the previous conveyance of said articles.

3.—Unpaid letters and post-cards, and insufficiently prepaid articles of every kind, when returned to the country of origin, owing to their being reforwarded or because they have become undeliverable, are liable, at the expense of the addressees or senders, to the same rates as similar articles addressed directly from the country of the first destination to the country of origin.

1.—Closed mails may be exchanged between the post offices of any one of the contracting countries and the commanders of naval squadrons or ships-of-war of the same country stationed abroad, through the intermediary of the territorial or maritime services depending on other countries.

2.—Articles of every kind enclosed in these mails must consist exclusively of those addressed to or sent by the officers and crews of the vessels for which the mails are destined or from which they are dispatched; the rates and conditions of dispatch applicable thereto are determined by the Postal Administration of the country to which the vessels belong, in accordance with its domestic regulations.

3.—Unless there be a contrary arrangement between the offices interested, the Post Office which dispatches or receives the mails in question is accountable to the intermediary Offices for the transit expenses calculated in conformity with the provisions of Article 4.

1.—Circulation shall not be given:


 * a) to commercial papers, samples and printed matter which are not prepaid at least in part or which are not put up in such a manner as to permit the easy examination of the contents;