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 POSTAL CONVENTION `WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Nov. 7 & 24, 1868. 859 Anrrcrn XII. The respective offices of exchange shall divide the Dl¤*l¤$>l¤ P*’·°K· correspondence which they shall mutually exchange into as many distinct :;ii$;sd’E°r°"° packets as there are different articles in the letter bills. l To each packet shall be attached a label showing the number of the . L*b°1*P*‘l¤*¤d article in the account, as well.as the amount of postage to be brought to :,’Q§,°L°f{,°,:? °°` account in respect to the matter covered by the label. The labels which the respective offices of exchange shall make use ot, in virtue of the provisions of the present article, shall be printed as follows :—- 1. On pink paper for paid international correspondence. 2. On yellow paper for paid transit correspondence. 3. On white paper for unpaid correspondence, whether international or transit. 4. And on blue paper for matter giving rise to no account. Anrrcns XIII. Dead letters, newspapers, &c. which cannot be deliv· D°°·dl°*'>¤¤'¤» ered, from whatever cause, shall be mutually returned after the expiration °°"P”P°"’ &°' of every month. Such of those letters, &c. as shall have been charged in the account, shall be returned for the same amount of postage which was originally charged by the sending office, and shall be allowed in the discharge of the account of the ohice to which they were transmitted. Dead letters, &c. which may have been received in closed mails, and which cannot be produced by the office which has to claim the amount, shall be admitted for the same weight and amount of postage which was originally charged upon such letters, &c. in the accounts of the respective otiices, on a. declaration, or on lists vouching for the amount of postage demanded. Amtctrz XIV. Letters forwarded for the purpose of annoying or I M¤li¤i<>¤¤.&¤· injuring the parties to whom they are addressed (the postage of which °m"‘ both offices are authorized to return to the public even after they have been opened) may be included and admitted with the dead letters mutually returned. ARTICLE XV. Ordinary or registered letters, book packets and pat- &g"¤¤°¤tl°***'°¤ terns of merchandise, misdirected or missent, shall be reciprocally ' returned, without delay, through the respective offices of exchange, for zhe same weight and amount of postage at which they were charged by the despatching office to the other office. 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 by the receivers. ARTICLE XVI. The detailed regulations agreed upon between the ,OF,;‘;‘;;‘§f,:;§l°’ post-ouices of the United Kingdom and of the United States, in the con- th,,,, (pkg sem, vention signed at London on the 18th June, 1867, shall cease to have Am, p_,,,,, effect on and from the day on which the present detailed regulations shall be put into operation. Done in duplicate and signed in London the seventh day of November, and in Washington the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Jotm TILLEY, [SEAL'] Secretary General Post- Ojicc, London. JOS§H H. BLACKFAN# Z8 erintendent Foreign. at, _ P emma 1>0sr.0_;yta, wmagm. [SEAL]