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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM. AUGUST 21, 1867. 9:29 (or weight, if required) and the total weight of the other correspondence which shall be despatched in closed mails by the British transit. Anrxcnn XVII. It is understood that the accounts between the two Settlement of 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 fifteen centimes of Belgium for one dollar of the United States. In entering the foreign charges on the letter bill, in the money of the sending office, the cent shall be considered as the equivalent of five centimes. It is also understood that the quarterly accounts shall be paid respectively in gold, and in the denominations of the money of the creditor office. Aaricnn XVIII. The quarterly accounts mentioned in Art. XV. of Q‘}°"l°"lY “°‘ the convention shall be prepared by the respective despatching offices COLE; 925 of exchange. They shall be based upon the acknowledgments of receipt, ’ p` l and shall respectively be prepared according to the models hereto annexed, and marked E 1° and E 2°. A recapitulation of these accounts, P °*'» PP- 9*% showing the definitive result, alike for the debit and the credit, shall be M6" prepared by the United States office, according to the form hereto annexed, and marked F ; and shall then be transmitted, with the quarterly PM, p- 948- accounts on which it is based, for the examination of the other office. Anrronm XIX. It is understood that Art. VI. of the convention, rela- S“““‘ P“°k°*S· tive to a direct line of steam packets between the two countries, shall be carried into effect as soon as either administration shall notify the other A"‘°~P· 92* of the establishment of such a line which it has adopted for the despatch of its mails. Done in duplicate and signed at Brussels the twenty-fifth day of November, and at Paris the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. [L. s.] JOHN A. KASSON, Special Oommissionerof the U S. Post Department. [L. s.] FASSIAUX, Director- General of Railroads, Posts, and Telegraphs. · · POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, ` “Washington, January 15, 1868. The foregoing articles of detailed regulations for carrying into execution the postal convention of `21st August, 1867, between the United States and Belgium, are hereby ratified and approved. _ Witness my hand and the seal of the Post-Oilice Department, this fifteenth day of January, A. D. 1868. [L. s.] ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster- General. voL. xvr. TREAT.-59