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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH ITALY Nov. 8, 1867. 1009 Articles agreed upon between the Post Department of the United Slam qf América represented by John A. Kacson, Esquire, Special Commissioner, and the Postal Administration of the Kingdom of Ralq, represented by Oavaliere Avvocato George Battista Tantesio, Director, <§·c., Qc., bot}: invested with the necessary Powers for the J%d(/ioation of the Oonvmtion executed between the two Countries under date of the ccyhlh July, 1863, and as provided in the XXI Wh Article of said Convention. Amrcnm I. There shall be a regular exchange of correspondence, in N0v_g,188y_ closed mails, between the post department of the United States of Amer- ica and the postal administration of the kingdom of Italy, as well for cor- ence to be ex. respondence originating in either of said countries and destined for the °h“”g°d¥ other, as for that originating in or destined for foreign countries to which the United States and Italy may respectively serve as intermediaries. This correspondence shall embrace the following articles: l to embrace 1. Letters, ordinary and registered. Wh”• 2. Newspapers, prints of all kinds, books, maps, plans, engravings, drawings, photographs, lithograpbs, sheets of music printed or written, and patterns or samples of merchandise, including grains and seeds. Arvricnn II. The offices for the exchange of the mails shall be, on the Offices for expert of the United States, New York. °b“"$° °f mm On the part of Italy, —-— 1. Susa -— travelling office. 2. Camerlata — travelling office. 3. Arona — travelling office. The two administrations may, by common accord, establish additional oflices of exchange whenever it shall be fotmd necessary; or suspend an existing office of exchange. ARTICLE III. Each administration shall make its own arrangements Arrangements for the despatch of its mails to the other, and shall transport them at its fsrgssgjwh DY ownexpense to the frontier of the country of destination. ma °’ °° It is also agreed that the cost of the territorial and maritime transit of Cost oftransthe mails despatched by one administration to the other shall be first de- P°”“**°”· frayed by that one of the two administrations which shall have obtained from the intermediaries the most favorable pecuniary terms for such transit; and any amount so advanced by one for the other shall be promptly reimbursed. Anrrcnm IV. The standard weight for the single rate of postage and _ Weight for the rule of progression shall be : — “’”§f '“2:f For letters, fifteen grams. P0 go' ' For all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article, it shall be that which the despatching administration shall adopt for the mails which it despatches to the other, adapted to the convenience of its interior service. Each administration, however, shall notify the other of the standard weight it shall adopt, and of any subsequent change thereof The rule of progression shall always be an additional single rate for each additional standard weight or fraction thereofl The weight stated by the despatching office shall always be accepted, except in case of manifest mistake. ARTICLE V. The single rate of postage for the direct correspondence Baton of postis established as follows: “K°· For letters from the United States, fifteen cents. For letters from Italy, eighty centesimi. For all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of v01.. xvr. TREAT. —— 64