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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH ITALY. JULY 8, 1863. 1007 termediarics the most favorable pecuniary conditions of such conveyance ; and any amount so paid by one department for account of the other shall bc reimbursed. ARTICLE XV`. It is distinctly agreed that all mailable articles ad-. M°“**b}° °¥· dressed from one country to the other shall be exempt in the country of 2.:°,:',°&§:TPt destination from any rate or fcc whatever beyond the charges established charges, Svc. by this convention. ARTICLE XVI. Correspondence exclusively relating to the postal Fm °°¤'°· service shall be transmitted on both sides without any postal charge °P°°d°°°°’ therefor. ARTICLE XVII. Correspondence of all kinds erroneously transmitted, I tm°°°""v &°· or wrongly addressed, shall be promptly returned to the despatching cw`"` cdice. Articles which shall have been addressed to persons who have departed from the place of destination, leaving their address, shall bc forwarded, or returned, as the case may require, charged with the postage which the addressee would have been required to pay on delivery. Arrrxcnm XVIII. Letters, all registered articles, and all documentary L°**?*’¤» &¤· manqscripts, which shall not be delivered to their address, shall be rc- f,'gt,:3;`.;Q°8"§‘H° stored to the despatching department. Any of these articles which may ` have been forwarded by one department to the other on account shall be restored, and credit taken for the amount originally charged by the despatching officc. But samples of merchandise, newspapers, prints of all kinds, and all mailable articles not excepted which cannot be delivered to their address, shall remain at the disposal of the receiving department, provided they shall not be reclaimed by the sender or addressee within six months from the date of their despatch. Amxcm XIX. Neither Post Department is required to make distri- C¤f*¤i¤ ¤f¤Ql¢¤ bution within its jurisdiction of any articles the circulation of which shall §§,{1;°'f; b° dm' be prohibited by the laws in force in the country of destination. ARTICLE XX. The Post Departments of the United States and of ,?g°*‘;d ';’““° Italy reciprocally engage to grant each td the other the gratuitous con- m °“ ° mgm vcyancc across their respective territories of all correspondence which shall be exchanged in. closed mails with any countries to which they may respectively serve as intermediaries: provided always, that such convey- ance shall be effected by the ordinary means of mail conveyance in usc; and that the countries taking the benefit of such gratuitous service shall rcciprocally accord the like privilege of free transit across their respective territories. The privilege is also accorded to each administration of sending an agent, at its own expense, in charge of the mails in transit. The further privilege is accorded of s, frec transfer of closed mails in the ports and harbors of the respective countries from one vessel to another, in continuance of their conveyance to final destination. Awucnm XXI. Correspondence of all kinds which either department d€¤*:¤§¤gd;)¤§¤ shall despatch to the other for the purpose of being thence forwarded in {fx2r36E_ ° its mails to another country of destination, shall be subject to the rates established by Article XT.of this convention, added to the ulterior rate in force beyond the frontier of the forwarding country, so that only one interior rata shall be received by the forwarding department. .Am*1cL1=: XXII, Small sums of money may be mutually transmitted °r;°¤¤1 ¤¤¤¤¤! between the two countries by means of postal money orders, and the rates H" and conditions may be arranged by an agreement between the two departments after the system of postal money orders shall have been adopted by the United States. _ ARTICLE XXIII. Until the same scale of weights shall have been 6 g$£*£§¤¤d adopted by the two departments, it is agreed that, for the purposes of this q ` convention, Hfbccn grammcs shall be taken as the equivalent of a halfounce, forty gmmmes as the equivalent of one ounce and a. half, and.s0 with their respective multiples in progression as applied by the respective ctiices. It is also understood that the rates upon correspondence shall be