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 1036 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH SWITZERLAND. Ocr. 11; 1867. Letters unpaid or insuniciently paid shall be also stamped to indicate the route by which they are sent, if different routes are employed. · Lsttorstofor. ARTICLE IX. The two postal administrations may exchange In the °ig“ °°“¥‘"i°” in open mails letters and other correspondence with foreign ‘COllHll‘l€S, and °p;;,;“;isj_048_ upon conditions as indicated in the tables D and E hereto annexed. Listiif foreign Airrronn X. The tables D and E hereto annexed also indicate the °°“"‘°'i“· foreign countries with which registered correspondence may be exchanged in the open mails between the two offices, and the conditions thereof. Postage due, ARTICLE XI. The respective exchange otdces shall mark IH red h°" l“d*°°*°d· in the upper right corner of the address of prepaid letters sent for transit in the open mail, the amount of the postage due to the foreign office of destination; and in the same manner, but in blaclc ink, shall mark the amount of postage due to the foreign office of origin upon the unpaid letters so sent in transit. C€¤'l¤l¤ ¤’?i¤l*>¤ ARTICLE XII. Articles under band which do not conform to the conmy b° '°t°°°°d' ditions mentioned in Article XII. of the convention, or which are-in no part prepaid, shall be retained at the disposition of the administration of origin, or, if sent, shall not be subject to account. _L°*l°*`Sl¤¤¤m· ARTICLE XIII. Letters originating in or destined for foreign coung?;:,?; Egtgggiiy tries, sent in the open mail for transit through the _United States or unpaid. through Switzerland, and which are insufficiently prepaid, shall be transmitted as wholly unpaid, and no account taken between the two adminis— trations of the amount prepaid. , Lcttcfsi &c- ARTICLE XIV. Letters and all registered articles not deliverable shall ¥§l,g?,¥:;;gif’ be respectively returned to the despatching administration at the end of every month. The postage on unpaid letters so returned shall be deducted from the account against the office originally charged therewith. The postage on prepaid letters so returned shall remain in the account as originally entered. The expense of transit_ of unpaid correspondence which has been transported by either administration in closed mails, and shall be returned 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 deliver— able. m¥£;°¤*» &°· ARTIGLE XV. All correspondence wrongly addressed or missent shall be returned without delay by the receiving office which despatched it. 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 that would have been paid at the first destination. c1g;gg*°r;£l§ f°' ARTICLE XVI. The despatching exchange office shall state on the ' letter bill for the intermediate exchange offices to which it shall deliver closed mails, whether from the United States to Switzerland or from Switzerland to the United States, the exact number of single rates of letters (or weight, if required) and the total weight of the other corre. spondence which shall be despatched in such mails. Accc¤¤t·¤ bc- Antricu: XVII. It is understood that the accounts between the two g;;°;’;_th° t‘w° offices shall be established on the respective letter bills in the proper money of the despatching office. For the international charges, the reduction of these moneys shall be effected in the general accounts at the rate of five francs and ten centimes for one dollar of the United States. In entering the foreign charges on the letter bill in the money of the despatching office, the cent shall be considered as the equivalent of tivo centiines of Switzerland.