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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM. Dncnmnnn 21, 1859. 1121 statements and accounts prepared by the General Post Office in Wash. ington, according to forms annexed, marked C and D; and having been examined, compared, and settled by the General Post Office in Belgium, the balance shall be paid without delay by that Department which shall be found indebted to the other. If the balance is in favor of Belvium, it shall be paid in Belgium; and if in favor of the United Statesit shall be paid over by Belgium at Washington, or to the General Post Office at London to the credit of the United States, as the Postmaster General of the United States shall elect. Anricrn XlX. Letters which, from any cause whatever, cannot be }F°*“*'¤ °* °-°· dfetlivepled, shall be rfeciprocally returned at the close of each quarter, g;1}v°r°d hmm a er the expiration o a pro er eriod to eifect their delive to the er son addressed, and for the saline Idmount of postage originallgcharged) by the sending officc, which shall be allowed in discharge of the account of the office to which they were sent. These returns of postage are to be claimed in a bill made up agreeably to forms annexed, marked E and F, which is to accompany such dead letters. Newspapers which are refused, or which become dead in the Post Offices DMG ¤€W¥P¤* of either country, are not to be returned. ¥:£I;gg*° bt ARTICLE XX. Letters misdirected or missent, or which may require Missent letters Ii}ioigipll.?‘TLZ,Z€ti€Z“IéiLS$T} Z§.£SEE§°§Zly.’£E?§i.KiIEZiL as gd" '°m°d' 7 bill for the same, at the weight and postage originally charged upon them. In respect to letters addressed to persons who have changed their residence, whatever may be their origin, they shall be respectively returned charged with the postage which was to have been paid by the person addressed, less the inland postage of the country from which sent. Anricrn XXI. The evidence of the prepayment of letters shall be in §°**°”,g°*f· red ink, on the right hand upper corner of the face of the letter, and all ;1m,f;£"&g_ °' letters, without distinction, shall bear the stamp of the mailing office on their face, and that of the receiving office on their back. The evidence of prepayment shall be represented thus: Letters originating in the United States and paid to their destination in Belgium shall be stam ed with the word “PAID." Lettegs originating in Belgium and paid to their destination in the United States shall be stamped “P: D :” (paid to destination.) Letters of every other origin, despatched from either country by virtue of the stipulations of Article X., and the prepayment of which is rendered obligatory to a certain point within either country, shall be stamped “P. F." aid to the frontier. Thi manner in which )letters, paid or unpaid, are to be sent or received shall be designated by the exchange offices, on each letter, by means of a stamp bearing the words "Am. Packet " or “Br. Packet," accordingly as they are transported by one or the other, in such manner as that the amount of credit to be allowed to the British Post Office for dead letters returned can be shown. ARTICLE XXII. The exchange offices of the Post Omce of Belgium Postbihsof shall state upon their post bills for the London office the number of single Egaggfogg rates for letters, as well as of the weight of newspapers and articles. of printed matter contained in each of the mails intended for the United States office ; and they shall, in like manner, state, in the receipt bills addressed to the said London office, the number of single rates for letters, as well as the weight of newspapers and articles of printed matter, found in the mails from the United States office intended for Belgium. · ARTICLE XXIII. In the event of a direct line or lines of steamslnps _Post¤.ge incase between the United States and Belgium being established, there shall be ;l;:°n:sg;’;§“a;’§ a direct exchange of mails by such line of steamers begwlesen tl? rpspetg ,mb;;,h,,d_ tive exchan e offices of Antwer on the one side, an ew or an Boston on tds other side, of the ihternational correspondence between the