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 CONVENTION WITH THE NORTH GERMAN UNION. Ocr. 21, 1867. 985 to the despatching office as not deliverable, shall be deducted from the original amount charged for transit upon a declaration of the amount by the office claiming the reduction. No charge will be made by either administration for the transit of correspondence returned as not deliverable. The bordereaux of correspondence not deliverable shall follow the models 9,,€°“’ PP' m’ F and G hereto annexed. ` Snort0N XV. All correspondence wrongly addressed or missent shall Ml¤¤¤¤l¤» &¤· be returned, without delay, by the receiving office to the exchange office 1mm* &°' which despatched its The receiving office shall also correct accordingly, in the column of verification, the original entries of the letter bill relating to such correspondence. The articles of a like nature addressed to persons who have changed their residence shall be mutually forwarded or returned, charged with the rate which would have been paid on the first destination. Snort0N XVI. The despatching exchange office shall state, on the let- I-°**°'·bm tv ter bill,for the intermediate offices, the exact number of single rates of Bmw Wim` letters (or weight if required) and the total net weight of the other correspondence which shall be despatched, in closed mails, by such intermediate transit. Smoriou XVII. It is understood that the accounts between the two A¤¤¤¤¤¤¤b¤- offices shall be established on the respective letter bills, in the proper 2;%:3 '°h°°w° money of the despatching office, but the international postages on the un- ` paid letters or insufficiently prepaid letters shall be computed in the money of the receiving office. The reduction of these moneys shall be effected in the general accounts at the rate of one dollar for one thalcr eleven silber-groschen and eight pfennigs. In entering the foreign charges on the letter bill, in the money of the despatching office, the cent shall be considered the equivalent of five pfennigs. It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be adjusted respectively in gold, and in the denomination of the moneyof the creditor office. Snort0N XVIII. The quarterly accounts, mentioned in Article XIV. Qwmb M- of the convention, shall he prepared by the respective despatching offices °°;:'°' of exchange. They shall be based Upon the acknowledgments of receipt, t°’ p' 9B]' and shall respectively be prepared according to the models hereto an- Pm Pp_ 99., nexed, marked H or I. 999,10bO. ’ The accounts prepared by the North German offices shall be transmitted to the Post-Office Department of the United States. A recapitulation of the respective accounts, showing the definite result alike for .the debit and credit, shall be prepared by the United States office, and shall then be transmitted, with the accounts on which it is based, for the examination of the other office. SECTION XIX. The charge to be made by the North German office mglfggs for the transit of closed mails, which the United States shall exchange in  ° ° either direction with countries beyond Germany, shall be as follows : — For mails exchanged with Switzerland or Italy 15 pfennigs per 30 grammes of letters. For other correspondence 8 silber-groschen per kilogramme. For mails exchanged with other countries one half silber-groschen per single letter rate. For other correspondence 8 silber-groschen per kiloamme. grExecuted in duplicate, at Washington the 22d July, 1868; at Berlin the 30th June, 1868. PHILIPSBORN. ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster- General (Z S. America.