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 784 CONVENTl0N—SWEDEN AND NORWAY. MABOH 15, 1873. Postages ami sx- The expense of transit of unpaid correspondence which has been pauses on returned transported by either Administration in closed mails and shall be re- "*¤“°*`· tm~net1~to the dispatching 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 deduction. No charge shall be made by either Administration for the transit of correspondence returned as not deliverable. · .. Anuriomn 14. Correspondence All correspondence wrongly addressed or missent shall be returned Wm9g1S' addmsed without delay by the receiving office to the exchange office which disor missent. patched it- _ The receiving onice 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 hrst destination. Anrxcrn 15. Indorsements 0 H The dispatching exchange-office shall state on the Letter Bills (for the Letter Bills. convenience of the transit account) the exact number of single_ rates and weight of letters, and the total weight of the other correspondence which shall be dispatched in closed mails by the British or by the Germantransit. y · Anrrcrn 16. Mom,,, of compw It is understood that the accounts between the two onices shall be tation. established on the respective Letter Bills, in the proper money of the dispatching ofjce, but the international postages on the unpaid letters or insufficiently paid letters shall be computed in the money of the receiving office. `° The reduction of these moneys shall be eifected in the General Accounts at the rate of 112 skillings of Norway·for one dollar of the United States. J In entering on the Letter Bills the international postages on the partly paid letters in the money of the receiving office, and the foreign charges in the money of the dispatching omce, the cent of the United States shall be considered as the equivalent of 15 skilling of Norway. I It is also understood that the Quarterly Accounts shall he paid respéectively in coin and in the denominations of the money of the creditor o ce. Anrrotn 17. . Qu arterl y Ao- The Quarterly Accounts mentioned in Article 13 of the Convention g°““;“» °“ vb 3* shall be prepared by the respective/Postal Administrations. They shall afizrtns of UB based upon the acknowledgments of receipg and shall respectively be prepared according to the models Dl and D? hereto annexed. A recapitulation of these accounts, showing the definite result, alike for the debit and the credit, shall be prepared by the United States office according to the form hereto annexed and marked E; and shall then be transmitted with the Quarterly Accounts on which it is based, for the examination of the other office. . Done in duplicate, and signed at Washington the 26th June, 1873, and at Christiania, the31st May, 1873. “ » JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General. W. J OHANSEN.