POSTAL CON VENTION-FRANCE. Armri 28, 1874. 8]] In regard to the letters insufficiently paid by means of postagestamps, _L¤*t·~rs i··+<·¤fll~ they shall be treated as unpaid letters, saving deduction of the amount ‘”°“*’9' l’““’· of the postage-stamps; but when the charge resulting from this deduction shall give a iraction of half décime French, or of a cent American, an entire half décime or cent, as the case may be, shall he levied for the fraction. A1zcr·roLn IV. The public of the two countries may send letters, registered, from one Registered letters. country to the other. The postage on such registered letters must always be prepaid to destination. Every registered letter sent from France and Algeria to the United States and its territories shall bear, on departure, in addition to the postage applicable to an ordinary paid letter of the same weight, a fixed tee of 50 centimes; and, reciprocally, every registered letter sent from the United States and its territories to France and Algeria shall bear, on departure, in addition to the postage applicable to a paid letter of the same weight, a ilxed fee of 10 cents. Amrrorm V. Samples of merchandise or of grains photograph en vings, and $=*~*¤}>l¤¤ of ****5*- lithographs, newspapers, periodicals, sewed or boundsboolgsifapamphlets, f,£‘“;‘w],s°§,*f,Y “V ` sheets of music, catalogues, prospectnses, announcements, and various g’ ` circulars, printed, engraved, lithographed, or autographed, which shall be sent either from France and Algeria to the United States and its territories, or from the United States and its territories to France and Algeria, must beprepaid, on both sides, to destination. The rates of prepayment shall be fixed by the government of the country of origin.
. Anrrom VI.
17 Each administration shall retain the whole amount of -the sums which Retention or pm. it shall have collected by authority of Articles III, IV, and V preceding. P*'§l *;}m;·,¥°°- , It is formally agreed, between the two contracting partie , that such 0,, objects as are designated in the said article, which shall have been pre- · paid to destination, cannot, under any pretext or title whatever, be subjected, in the country of destination, to any postage or fee to the charge of the addressees. Anrrcnn VII. , The two administrations may reciprocally deliver in open mails ordi- f OI*°'* ]*;*=*“** *<* ***6 nary letters and printed matter of ull kinds coming from or addressed ,,‘;’0'f_,‘_ ° ‘°* °°“"' to the countries to which they serve respectively as intermediaries; and hm, ,· m on ; M y also registered letters coming from or addressed to such of those coun- sem. tries to which the payment of ordinary letters can he effected to destination. . This delivery shall take place according to the following arrangements: The correspondence exchanged between France or Algeria and the countries to which the United States serve as intermediaries shall be made subject to the following settlements: lst. To the payment by the French administration, to the American aclministration, when the postage shall be, collected in France or Algeria, of a rate of postage equal to that which is paid by the inhabitants _ot' the United States for the correspondence which they exchange with the same countries. . 2d. To the payment by the American administration to the French administration, when the postage shall be collected in the countries to which the United States serve as intermediaries, of·a rate of I`rencl1 postage of 4 cents per 10 grammes or fraction of 10 grammes for ordinary letters, of 8 cen ts per 10 gramnies or fraction of 10 grarnnies for reg-
