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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. peuvent Atre tax6s d'aprfs leur poids reel. ARTICLE 35. Affranchissement. by Section 1, they may be rated in accordance with their actual weight. ARTICLE 35 Prepayment En regle generale, tous les envois designes a l'article 33 doivent 6tre completement affranchis par 1'expediteur. 11 n'est pas donne cours aux envois non ou insuffisamment af- franchis autres que les lettres et les cartes postales simples, ni aux cartes postales avec r6ponse payee dont les deux parties ne sont pas entierement affranchies au mo- ment du d6p6t. ARTICLE 36. As a general rule, all the arti- cles designated in Article 33 must be fully prepaid by the sender. Articles other than letters and single post cards which are un- prepaid or insufficiently prepaid, or reply post cards both halves of which are not fully prepaid at the time of mailing, are not dispatched. ARTICLE 36 Taxe en cas d'absence ou d'insuffi- Charge on unprepaid or insuffi- sance d'affranchissement. ciently prepaid correspondence En cas d'absence ou d'insuffi- sance d'affranchissement et sauf les exceptions prevues par 'article 64, § 6, pour les envois recom- mandes et par I'article 147, §§ 3, 4 et 5, du Reglementpour certaines categories d'envois r6exp6di6s, les lettres et les cartes postales simples sont passibles, A la charge des destinataires, d'une taxe double du montant de l'affranchissement manquant, sans que cette taxe puisse etre inf6rieure & 5 centimes. Le m8me traitement peut etre applique, dans les cas precites, aux autres objets de correspondance qui auraient et6 transmis &tort au pays de destination. With the exceptions provided for by Article 54, Section 5, for registered articles, and by Article 147, Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Regulations for certain classes of redirected articles, letters and sin- gle post cards not prepaid or insufficiently prepaid are liable to a charge equal to double the amount of the missing postage, to be paid by the addressee; but that charge may not be lower than 5 centimes. The same treatment may be applied, in the cases above con- templated, to other articles of correspondence which have been improperly dispatched to the country of destination. ARTICLE 37. Surtaxes. ARTICLE 37 Surcharges Extraordinary serv- ices. Reply-paid post cards. Pour tout objet transport6 par There may be collected, in des services extraordinaires don- addition to the rates fixed by nant lieu A des frais speciaux, il Article 34, for every article trans- peut etre pergu, en sus des taxes ported by extraordinary services fix6es par 'article 34, une surtaxe involving special expenses, a sur- en rapport avec ces frais. charge proportionate to those expenses. Lorsque le tarif d'affrainchisse- When the rate of prepayment ment de la carte postale simple of the single post card includes comprend la surtaxe autoris6e par the surcharge authorized by the l'alinta precedent, ce m6me tarif preceding paragraph, the same Prepayment. Unprepaid, etc., ar- ticles. Charge on nnpre- paid, etc., correspond- ence. Post, pp. 2078, 2137, 2138. Improperly dis- patched articles. 2068

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