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 POSTAL CONVENT1QN—F1tANCE. Annu. 28, 1874. 817 By the way of the packets of the Hamburg Zinc.-The odiccs of Paris and Havre shall make up mails for the office of New York, and the office ot New York shall make up mails torthe offices of Paris, Havre, and Cherhourg. By the way of Engla·nd.-The offices of Paris and Havre and the traveling offices of Paris to Calais and Lille to Calais shall correspond with the oiizlces of Boston and New York. ` ARTICLE 3. Imconformitv with Article I of the convention of 28th April, 1874, the Expenses vf interpostal administration of the United States shall pay, on account of the ‘P°d*‘“¥ **’“““P°"*‘* postal administration of France, the expenses of the intermediary trans- f°"’ “dJ"“"‘°" °f' portation of thermails which shall be sent from France to the United States, as well by means of the Hamburg packets navigating between France and the United States as by the way of England and the packetsaised fordshe conveyance of the correspondence of the British Kingdom to the UnitedStates. These expenses shall be re-imhursed by the postal administration of France to the postal administration of the United States, as follows: 1st. At the rate of 30 centimes per thirty grammes of letters, and 50 centimes per kilogramme of samples of merchandise or printed matter, for such of. the said mails as shall be forwarded by means of the Hambiirgpackets. _, 2d. At the rate of 44 centimes per thirty grammes of letters, and one franc per kilogra-mine of samples of merchandise or printed matter, for` such of the said mails as shall be forwarded by the way of England and the packets used for the conveyance of the correspondence between England and the United States. On its side, the postal administration of France shall assure, on nocount of the postal administration of the United States, the intermediary transportation of the mails which shall be iorwarded from the United States to France by- means of the French mailpackets. The postal administration of the United States shall pay for this transportation to the postal administration of France the same rates, per thirty grammes of letters and per kilogramme of samples of merchandise or printed matter, as those at which the intermediary transportation is hereinabove fixed, by Hamburg packets, of the mails from France for the United States. Anrriorm 4. The correspondence exchanged between the postal administration of Cori-esponden oe, . France and the postal administration of the United States shall be lww forwardedforwarded inconformity with_ table A, annexed to the present regulations. - V _. ARTICLE 5. Correspondence sentin transit, in open mail, conformablyto Article VII _ Correspond e n e e of the convention of 28th April, 1874, shall be exchanged between the :;ui§¤¤¤¤1¤ 1¤ <>1>¤¤¤ postal administration of France and the postal administration of. the ‘ United States on the conditions respectively fixed by the said article and by tables B and C, annexed to the present regulations. The postagecharges which the two administrations shall have mum- Mmm, ,,,,_ ally to carry to account for this correspondence shall be stated by the dispatching exchange-offices in ordinary figures, and uniformly on the upper leit side of the address, as follows: · _ _ In red ink, on prepaid objects entered by the dispatching office to the credit of the corresponding office. _ _ In black ink, on unpaid objects entered by the dispatching office to the debit of the corresponding office. ` Vol. 18, pt. 3s-52 L '