cepted,) or to the countries the correspondence of which is transmitted through France.

V. The mails which the office at Boulogne-sur-Mer shall forward to the office at London by means of the mail packets leaving Calais for Dover shall comprise the correspondence of every kind. dispatched from Boulogne-sur-Mer addressed to the countries enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations.

Reciprocally, the mails which the office at London shall forward to the office at Boulogne-sur-Mer by means of the mail packets leaving Dover for Calais shall comprise the correspondence of every kind despatched from the countries enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations addressed to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

VI. The mails which the office at Boulogne-sur-Mer shall forward to the office at Dover by means of the mail packets leaving Calais for Dover shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from Boulogne-sur-Mer addressed to the towns in England enumerated in Table B, annexed to the present regula tions.

Reciprocally, the mails which the office at Dover shall forward to the office at Boulogne-sur-Mer by means of the mail packets leaving Dover for Calais shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from the towns enumerated in Table B, annexed to the present regulations, addressed to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

VII. The mails which the office at Calais shall forward to the office at London by means of the mail packets leaving Calais for Dover shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from Calais, Bourbourg, Dèsvres, Gravelines, Guines-en-Calaisis, Marquise, Samer, and St. Pierre les Calais addressed to the countries enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations.

Reciprocally, the mails which the office at London shall forward to the office at Calais by means of the mail packets leaving Dover for Calais, shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from the countries enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations, addressed to Calais, Bourbourg, Dèsvres, Gravelines, Guines-en-Calaisis, Marquise, Samer, and St. Pierre les Calais.

VIII. The mails which the office at Calais shall forward to the office at Dover by means of the mail packets leaving Calais for Dover shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from Calais, Bourbourg, Dèsvres, Gravelines, Guines-en-Calaisis, Marquise, Samer, and St. Pierre les Calais addressed to the towns in England enumerated in Table B, annexed to the present regulations.

Reciprocally, the mails which the office at Dover shall forward

to the office at Calais by means of the mail packets leaving Dover for Calais, shall comprise the correspondence of every kind dispatched from the towns enumerated in Table B, annexed to the present regulations, addressed to Calais, Bourbourg, Dèsvres, Gravelines, Guines-en-Calaisis, Marquise, Samer, and St. Pierre les Calais.

IX. The mails which are exchanged, in virtue of Article II of the Convention of 24th September, 1856, and of Article II of the present regulations, by means of private ships, between the office at Boulogne and the offices at London, Dover, and Folkestone, between the office at Calais and the offices at London and Dover, between the office at Dieppe and the office at London, between the offices at Cherbourg, Granville, and St. Malo, and the offices at Guernsey and Jersey, between the office at Hâvre and the offices at London and Southampton, and lastly, between the office at Morlaix and the office at Southampton, shall only comprise the correspondence which the senders shall expressly desire to forward by means of those vessels.

X. The mails from the office at Marseilles for the office at Dover shall comprise the paid letters which the persons authorized to that effect by the two Post Offices of France and Great Britain may desire to send by the Indian mail service to the editors or agents of the English newspapers hereafter mentioned, viz.:

1. The Morning Advertiser.

2. The Morning Chronicle. 3. The Morning Herald.

4. The Morning Post.

5. The Public Ledger.

6. The Times.

7. The Commercial Daily List.

8. The Daily News.

XI. The correspondence of every kind exchanged between the Post Office of France and the British Post Office by means of the French or British mail packets plying in the Mediterranean, shall be forwarded according to Table C, annexed to the present regulations.

XII. In order to afford to the inhabitants of the ports of the two countries every facility for the despatch of letters by merchant vessels plying between France and Great Britain, a movable letterbox, provided with a lock, may, with the previous consent of the two offices, be placed on board each of these vessels, to receive such letters as the public may wish to deposit in it.

On the arrival of the vessel the movable box shall be carried to the postmaster, who shall open it, and take out the letters, and then return the box to the agent who brought it.

XIII. The regulations fixed by Article IV of the Convention

of 24th September, 1856, for the payment for the conveyance of letters comprised in the mails exchanged between the Post Office of France and the Post Office of Great Britain by means of merchant vessels, shall be applicable to the payment for the conveyance of letters taken out of the movable boxes described in the preceding Article.

XIV. The particulars of the account arising out of the transmission of the letters to which the provisions of the preceding Articles XII and XIII apply, shall be annexed as follows:

1. To the accounts opened between the Post Office of the port of disembarkation and the Post Office of the port of dispatch, if there exists an exchange of mails between those two offices.

2. And to the accounts of the office at Calais with the office at London, if the Post Office of the port of disembarkation is not itself an office of exchange in communication with the corresponding office.

In this last case a declaration of the number and weight of letters found in the movable box shall be made out, in duplicate, by the postmaster who shall have opened the box. The two copies shall be forwarded to the proper office of exchange, which shall transmit one copy to the corresponding foreign office of exchange, after having affixed its visâ to it, and shall annex the other copy, as a voucher, to the separate account in which the particulars proved by this declaration should be entered.

XV. The declarations which the postmasters at the ports of the two countries will have to furnish, in accordance with Article XIV preceding, shall be made out as follows:

1. By the postmasters of the French offices on a form similar to pattern D, annexed to the present regulations.

2. And by the postmasters of the British offices on a form similar to pattern E, also annexed to the present regulations.

XVI. The letters dispatched either from France and Algeria to Great Britain, or from Great Britain to France and Algeria, may be prepaid by the senders, by means of postage stamps in use in the country from which they are sent.

XVII. When the postage stamps affixed to a letter shall represent a sum less than that required for its prepayment at the rate of 40 centimes, or 4d. per seven grammes and a half, or fraction of seven grammes and a half, such letter shall be considered as unpaid, and charged as such, after deducting the value of those stamps.

Nevertheless, when in the sum represented by the postage stamps affixed to a letter there shall be a fraction of a decime, or of 1d., no notice shall be taken of such fraction.

XVIII. The amount of the sums paid as well by the senders of

letters insufficiently prepaid by means of postage stamps as by the persons to whom those letters are addressed, shall be divided between the Post Office of France and the Post Office of Great Britain, conformably to Table F, annexed to the present regulations.

XIX. Ordinary letters dispatched in ordinary mails by way of France, either from the foreign countries enumerated in Table G, annexed to the present regulations, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to those same foreign countries, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of France and the Post Office of Great Britain on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

XX. Ordinary letters dispatched in ordinary mails by way of France, either from the foreign countries enumerated in Table H, annexed to the present regulations, to the Island of Malta, or from the Island of Malta to those same foreign countries, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of France and the Post Office of Great Britain on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

XXI. Letters dispatched in ordinary mails through the British Post Office, either from the countries enumerated in Table I, annexed to the present regulations, to France and Algeria, or from France and Algeria to those same countries, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of France and the Post Office of Great Britain on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

XXII. The Post Office of France may deliver to the British Post Office registered letters addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Island of Malta, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Jamaica.

On its side, the British Post Office may deliver to the Post Office of France registered letters addressed as well to France, Algeria, and the places in the Mediterranean where France maintains Post Offices, as to the foreign countries for which the inhabitants of Great Britain shall have the right of forwarding by way of France ordinary letters paid to destination.

XXIII. Newspapers and other printed papers dispatched in ordinary mails by way of France from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the foreign countries enumerated in Table J, annexed to the present regulations, or from those same foreign countries to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of France and the British Post Office on the conditions set forth in the said Table. It is, nevertheless, understood that the Post Office of France shall have the right to deliver to the British Post Office, as paid to destination, newspapers and other printed papers which shall be

forwarded from the countries enumerated in Table J above mentioned, for the United Kingdom.

The rate to be paid by the Post Office of France to the British Post Office for such newspapers and other printed papers shall be the same as for printed papers originating in France.

XXIV. Newspapers and other printed papers dispatched in ordinary mails by way of France, either from the foreign countries enumerated in Table K, annexed to the present regulations to the Island of Malta, or from the Island of Malta to those same foreign countries, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of France and the British Post Office on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

XXV. Newspapers and other printed papers dispatched in ordinary mails through the British Post Office, either from France, Algeria, Alexandria, Jaffa, Beyrout, Tripoli in Syria, Lattakia, Alexandretta, Messina, Rhodes, Smyrna, Mitylene, the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Constantinople, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, the several States of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, Russia, Poland, the Danubian Provinces, and Turkey in Europe, to the English colonies and other countries beyond sea enumerated in Table L, annexed to the present regulations, or from those same colonies and countries beyond sea to France, Algeria, and those countries mentioned above, the correspondence of which is transmitted through France, shall be exchanged between the British Post Office and the Post Office of France on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

It is, nevertheless, understood that the Post Office of Great Britain shall have the right to deliver to the Post Office of France, as paid to destination, newspapers and other printed papers which shall be forwarded from the colonies and other countries beyond sea enumerated in Table L, above mentioned, for France and Algeria. The rate to be paid by the British Post Office to the Post Office of France for such newspapers and other printed papers shall be the same as for printed papers originating in the United Kingdom.

XXVI. To enjoy the reduced rates of postage allowed by Articles XXIII, XXIV, and XXV, preceding, the printed papers mentioned in the said Articles must be prepaid to the limits fixed by those Articles, must be sent in bands, and must not contain any writing, figure, or manual mark whatsoever. Printed papers which are not in conformity with these conditions shall be treated as letters, and charged accordingly.

The two Offices mutually engage to do all in their power to secure that the newspapers and other printed papers above mentioned may be prepaid to destination by the senders.