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 874 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. MARCH 2, 1857. on the address of the prepaid letters which the United States offices of exchange shall deliver to the French offices of exchange, this impression (PAID), stamped in red ink. _ On its side, the French Post-Oflice shall cause the impression (P D), stamped in red ink, to be placed on the letters prepaid to destination, which shall be delivered by the French offices of exchange to the United States offices of exchange. Stamptobe An·r1or,i·: XII. The respective offices of exchange shall place upon §;“‘;;‘;c‘;l";?0;h§f the superscription of the correspondence of every kind contained in the c0Fresp0¤%e¤ce_ mails which they shall receive from the corresponding offices of exchange, a Stamp, with the date, showing the way in which such mails shall have been forwarded. The stamp to be placed upon the correspondence transported between the French frontier andfthe American frontier, at the expense of or on account of the Post-Oflice of France, shall bear, independently of the name of the exchange office of destination, the characters Serv. Fr. or Br. (French or British Service.) This stamp shall be placed in blue ink on the correspondence transmitted directly, and in red ink on the correspondence transmitted by way of England. The stamp to be placed on the correspondence transported between the American frontier and the French frontier, or the British frontier, at the expense of the United States Post-Oliice, shall bear, independently of the name of the exchange office of destination, the characters Serv. Am. (American Service.) This stamp shall be placed in blue ink, both on the correspondence transmitted direct and on that comprised in the mails · of or for the office of Havre, which shall have been transported by the packets of the New York line to Bremen, and by the packets plying between Havre and Southampton, without touching the British territory. It shall be placed in red ink on the correspondence comprised in the mails which shall have been transportedby the aid of the British Post- Otlice. Letfer bill to ARTICLE XIII. Each of the mails exchanged between the exchange fggfnpmy €”‘°h ohices of the two countries shall be accompanied by a letter bill, or statement, showing the nature, the number, and the weight of the articles which the mail shall contain, as well as the amount of the rates mentioned in Article X. 4 T he exchange office to which the mail shall be addressed shall acknowledge its receipt to the exchange office transmitting it, by the next conveyance. The letter bills or statements and the acknowledgments of receipt, of which the French offices of exchange shall make use, shall be conform- PMGP- 881- able to the model D,— annexed to the present articles. The letter bills or statements and the acknowledgments of receipt, of which the United States exchange offices shall make use, shall be Post, p. 885· confmmable to the model E, in like manner annexed to the present artic es. biliegstivsletter Anriotn XIV. In cases where, on the days fixed for sending the ‘ mails, an office of exchange shall have no letter to address to the corresponding exchange office, the office of transmission shall, nevertheless, send in the ordinary form, a mail, which shall contain a negative letter bill or statement: Letters that Anricrn XV. Letters which cannot be delivered for any cause whatg;‘;£°° b° dw"' ever shall be returned on one part and the other, at the end of each month, and more frequently if possible. Those of such letters which shall have been placed in the account shall be returned for the sum at which they have been originally counted by the sending office. Those which shall have been delivered prepaid to destination or to the frontier pf the corresponding office shall be returned without charge or deducion.