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 814 POSTAL CONVENTION-FRANCE. APRIL 28, 1874. the French frontier by tbe`French maihpackets, the United States postal administration shall pay to the postal administration of France, in addition to the French territorial transit-rates abovementioned, the sum ot $2 per kilogramme on letters, and 10 cents per kilogramme on samples and printed matter, which may be contained in these mails. _ _ The maratime postage for which the two postal administrations ot France and of the United States will have to reciprocally account for upon the correspondence of all kinds transported in closed mails. by packets other than those navigating between France and the United States, .will be the same 'as those applicable to correspondence of the same nature coming fromor addressed to the countries which assure the maritime transportation of the said closed mails. _ It is understood that the weight of the correspondence of all kinds which-is found undeliverable, as also that of the letter-bills and other documents of account arising from the exchange of the correspondence transported in closed mails by either of the two administrations for the account of the other, shall not be included in the weight of the letters, samples, or printed matter, upon which should be levied the territorial and maritime transitrates required in virtue of the pgesent article. ‘ Anrrcrn X1. Q ¤<¤¢<>¤1y M- Thereshall be prepared every three months, by the postal adminisg’;;’,;S wld “°m°` tration of France, particular accounts, recapitulating the proceedings of ' tlige transmission of the correspondence between the respective exchangeo ces. . These accounts, which shall have for basis and vouchers the acknowledgments of receipt for the mails during the quarterly period, shall be summed up in a general account, designed to present the definitive results of the transmission of the correspondence exchanged between the two administrations. After having been reciprocally examined and approved, the general account above mentioned shall be paid, by the administration recognized as debtor towards the other, in the course of the second quarter following that to which the account refers. The balances of the accounts shall be paid as follows, viz: 1st. In drafts upon Washington, and in American money, when the balance is in favor of the United States office. 2d. In drafts upon Paris, and in French money, when the balance is in favor of the French office. In the establishment of the accounts, and in all matters relative to the execution of the convention, the dollar shall be considered the equivalent of 5 francs 20 centimes. Ancricrn XII. I-·<>¤l¤<·>f¤ M-ld D=>·¤k· Ordinary or registered letters. samples of merchandise, photogra lis, g§;’;BQ,‘”§L‘;$1Y "°` and printed matter, wrongly addressed or wrongly sent, shall be, ullth- ’ out delay, reciprocally returned through the intermediary of the respective exchangeoffices for the weight and rate at which the sending office shall have delivered these objects in account to the other office. - Return of letters, Articles of the same nature, which may have been sent to addressees &°- who have left for the country of origin of these letters, shall be respectively returned, charged with the postage which would have been paid by the addressees. · Ordinary letters and articles under band, which shall have originally been delivered to the postal administration of France, or to the postal administration of the United States, by other administrations, and which, in consequence of change of residence of the addressees, must be returned from one of the two countries to the other, shall be reciprocally delivered, charged with the postage required at the place of iirst destination.