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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH CANADA. AUGUST 25 & 28, 1856. 1097 for the despatch and receipt of United States mails, on the side of Canada, stamp “Canada " upon all letters sent into the United States for e ivery. ARHCLE X. The P0st·Office Departments of the United States and D°¤dl°*t°¤'$· Canada shall each return to the other all dead letters, unopened and without charge, every three months, or oftener, as may best suit the general regulations of each department. Anrxcma XI. The expense of transporting the mails between the ]?XP°¤$° of frontier exchange offices, where the conveyance is by water, shall be Eglgellegyfcu borne equally by the two departments; but when the transportation is by change offices. land, the expense shall be borne by each in proportion to the distance travelled over the territory of each country. All contracts {cr such transportation shall, befbre they go into operation, be approved by the P0st·OlHce Department of each country. _ Aurxcnm XII. This arrangement shall gc into operation on the sixth w}g‘;";f‘;l;’;‘• 0f April next, and it may be modified from time to time, as may be gmx-4;, agreed upon by the parties thereto ; and it may be annulled at the desire of either party, upon three m0nths’ notice. In witness whereof, the Postmaster-General of the United States and the Postmaster-General of Canada have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals, respectively, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight. hundred and fifty-one. [L. s.] N. K. HALL. [L. s.] J.- MORRIS. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES Of Agreement bélween the P0s£—Oj€ce Department of the United States 28&§¤S*25 Wl and the Post- Office Department of Canada, providing for the Exchange ii of Registered Letters between the two Oouzztries. ARTICLE I. Letters, allcged to be valuable, posted at any post-cHice16§5gl“°*°d in the United States or its Territories, and addressed to Canada, or ` posted in Canada and addressed tc the United States, and deliverable at any of the respective orlices of exchange to be thence conveyed to their destination, shall be registered at the office of mailing, on the application 0f the person posting the same: Provided, That the full postage charge- reggfigggsx able thereon to destination, together with a registration fee of five cents t0"b€ prepaid, on each letter, be_ prepaid at such mailing office: And provided, also, That such registration shall not be compulsory, and shall not render the I No Iiubilityfor respective Post—Office Departments of the United States or Canada, or °“‘ their revenues, liable for the loss of such letters or packets, or the contents therech AR’rICLi·1 II. All such letters or packets mailed in the interior of the m}{{f;§“;i=ti‘g‘ United States or Canada, respectively, shall be received, registered, and MMO, to be rc. receipted fbr, as directed in the general 1-cgnlaticns issued in each ccun· €<¤i;‘§dk2‘¢giS· try lll regard to the registration of valuable letters, and shall be sent to er ’ °' the respective exchange offices for the purpose of being forwarded thence by the first mail. S t I tw ARTICLE III. The respective exchange offices shall make a Sepaljate bm;l;.;;*;:gi:_ r letter bill for each registered letter, or parcel of registered letters, Orlgl- mgdmms, nally mailed at said exchange offices, or sent to them to be forwarded, as prescribed by the regulations referred to in Article II., and shall 'enter therein the name of the person addressed and the posnoffice to which .11; is to be mailed for delivery. The postmaster ol' said exchange office ~w1ll then mail each such letter, or parcel of letters, in the usual manner in a