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 1340 oonvmurion or LISBON. MARCH 81, 1885. En vertu de l’article 19 de la By virtue of article 19 of the Convention conclue a Paris le l" Convention concluded at Paris on Juin 1878, the 1st of June, 1878, Ont, d’un commun accord et sous Have, by common consent, and reserve de ratification, arrete subject to ratification, adopted the l’Acte additionnel suivant: following additional Act : ARTICLE PREMIER. ARTICLE 1. vé*f_ ”f‘f8,Cg_¤· La Convention du 1“ J nin 1878 The Convention oflthe 1st of ’est modiiiée comme suit: June 1878 is modified as follows: I. I. Ar¤c1¤2- L’article 2 portera dorenavant Article 2 will, hereafter, read la redaction suivante: as follows: _ Article 2. Article 2. scopeorsupumucus. Les dis ositions de cette Con- Thestipulationsof thisConvenvention selaendent auxlettres, aux tion extend to letters; to simple cartes postales simples et avec postal cards and postal cards with reponse payee, aux imprimes de paid reply, to printed matter of toute nature, aux apiers d’af- all kin s, commercial papers, and faires et aux echantihons de mar- samples of merchandise, originatchandises, originaires de l’un des ing in one of the countries of the ays de l’Union et a destination Union, and intended for another d’un autre de ces pays. Elles s’ap- of those countries. They also appliquent egalement, quant au par- ply, as fr as regards conve ance cours dans le ressort de l’Umon, within the Union, to the exchange a l’echange postal des objets ci- by mail of the articles above mendessus entre les pays de lUnion tioned between the countries of et les pays etrangers a l’Union, the Union and countries foreignto toutes les fois que cet echange the Union, whenever that exemprunte les services de deux des change makes use of the services parties contractantes, au moins. of fwotof the contracting parties a eas. P¤¤¤1¤•¤!¤- Tous les pays contractants ne All the contracting countries sont pastenus emettre des cartes are not obliged to issue postal avec reponse payee, mais ils assu- cards with paid reply, but they ment l’obligation de renvoyer les assume the obligation "to return cartes-relponse regues des autres reply-cards received from other pays de Union. countries in the Union. II. II. _ A1-me 4. I£’article 4 est modine comme Article 4 is modifledas follows: sui : L’alinea 8 est remplace par la The following provision is subdisposition ci-apres: stituted for paragraph 8: S¤¤¤r¤¤¤i¤- 2°. Que, partout ou les frais de 2d. That wherever the rate of transit maritime sont iixes actu- sea-transit is at present fixed at 5 ellement a 5 francs par kilo- francs per kilogramme of letters gramme de lettres ou e cartes or postal cards, and at 50 centimes postales, et a 50 centimes par kilo- ‘ per kilogramme of other articles, gramme d’autres objets, ces prix these rates are maintained. sont maintenus. Ijalinéa 13 est modifie comme 1 Paragraph 13 is modified as fol- Sui : 0Ws: . a lieu sur la base de releves eta- expenses takes place on the basis blis tous les trois ans, pendant une of statements prepared every three
 * 1 ¤¤°¤¤¤¤¤*-¤-  decompte general de ces frais The general settlement of these