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 POSTAL GONVENTION—FRANCE. APRIL 28, `IST4. 813 Aivrieus IX. . The postal administrations of France and of the United States shall not. P°"1€“"“ °9”***l“‘ admit to ilestination im either of the two countries, or in the countries ‘§‘g”*“f°&* °fl§t‘;°` using their intermed1ery,eny package or letter containing gold or silver ,:;£Qs?D u lar money, Jewels, or a.rt1cles of intrinsic value, 0i··a,ny object, subject to customs-duty. _ · _ Liquids end articles which may injure the correspondence, and which Liquidsare prohibited m the country of destination, Sb8»1].I10U be admitted under any term to be dispatched through the post-oiliee. · No package of more than 60 centimetres or 2 ieet, American, in length, Sim of D¤<>k¤s€¤· and of more than 30 centimetres or 1 foot, American, in the other dimensions, can be sent Hom one of the two countries to the other through the postoiice. " ARTICLE X. » The French government agrees to cause t0` be transported, in closed. °1°”°‘é. “?a"“ Y mails, either across France or by means of the French maritime postal {§;°m°° my M ” service, the correspondence which the postal administration of the United ` States may desire to exchange with other countries by the intermediary of the French p0st·0ffice; and reciprocally the Government of the— United States agrees to cause to be transported, in closed mails, either across the United States or by means of American maritime pasta.] services, the correspondence which the postal administration of France may desire to exchange with other countries by the intermediary of the United States p0st—of5cé. The postal administration of.Fra.x1ce shall pay to the postal administration of the United States, viz: lst. The sum of 6 francs per kilogramme on letters, and 1 franc per kilcgrmnme on samples and prints, for the transportation across the territory of the United States of the closed mails which shall be exchanged between France and other countries via Sen Francisco. 2d. The sum of 10 francs per kilogramme on letters, and 1 franc per kilogmmme on samples and printed matter, for the transportation across the territory of the United States of the closed mails which shall be exchanged by any other route than that of Sen Francisco between France and its eoleuies, or all other places where it shall have postal establishments, or the countries with which it is at present bound by postal conventions. _ Reciproeelly the postal administration of the United States shall pay to the postal administration of France, viz: 1st.‘ The sum of $1.20 per kilogramme on letters, and 20 cents per kilngm-mme on patterns and printed matter, for the transportation across French territory of the closed mails which shall be exchanged be tween the United States and other States by the Fr;mc0—Belgien or Fre,ne0—German frontier. 2d. The sum of $2 per kilogramme on letters, and 20 cents per kilogramme on samples and prints, for the tmnsp0rte.ti0u across French territory of the closed mails which shall be exchanged by ell other points of the French irontier-than those contiguous to Germany or to Belgium between the United States and the countries with which the Govern- ment of the United States is et present bound by postal conventions. V When the closed mails coming from or addressed to France shall be transported between the Frenchfrontier end the American frontier by the packets of the Hamburg line, the postél administration of France · shall pay to the postal administration of the United States, in addition to the American territorial transit-rates above mentioned,the sum of 10 francs per kilogramme on letters, and the sum of 50 eeutimes per kile gramme on samples and printed matter, which may be contemed in — these mails. Reeiprocully, when the closed. mails coming from or adclressecl to the Hnited States shall be transported between the American frontier and