Sardinia, either from the foreign countries enumerated in Table H 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 British Post Office and the Post Office of Sardinia on the conditions set forth in the same Table. It is understood, however, that in the event of arrangements being hereafter made between the Post Office of Sardinia and the Post Offices of any of the foreign countries enumerated in Table H above mentioned, so that letters addressed to those countries originating in Sardinia may be prepaid to destination, a like provision for prepayment to destination shall be stipulated for in favour of letters originating in or forwarded through the United Kingdom. VIII. Upon ordinary letters and book packets dispatched from Sardinia via Malta to the countries enumerated in Table I, or from those countries via Malta to Sardinia, the Post Office of Sardinia shall account to the British Post Office for the rates specified in the said Table. IX. Book packets despatched in ordinary mails by way of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from Sardinia or any of the States of the Continent, the correspondence of which is forwarded through Sardinia to the colonies and countries beyond sea enumerated in Table K annexed to the present regulations, or from those same colonies and countries beyond sea to Sardinia or any of the States of the Continent, the correspondence of which is forwarded through Sardinia, shall be exchanged between the British Post Office and the Post Office of Sardinia on the conditions set forth in the said Table. It is, nevertheless, understood that the British Post Office shall have the right to deliver to the Post Office of Sardinia as paid to destination book packets which shall be forwarded from the colonies and other countries beyond sea enumerated in Table K, above mentioned, for Sardinia. The rate to be paid by the British Post Office to the Post Office of Sardinia for such book packets shall be the same as for book packets originating in the United Kingdom. X. Book packets dispatched in ordinary mails by way of Sardinia from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the foreign countries enumerated in Table L 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 Sardinia and the British Post Office on the conditions set forth in the said Table. It is, nevertheless, understood that the Post Office of Sardinia shall have the right to deliver to the British Post Office as paid to destination book packets which shall be forwarded from the countries enumerated in Table L, above mentioned, for the United Kingdom. The rate to be paid by the Post Office of Sardinia to the British Post Office for such book packets shall be the same as for book packets originating in Sardinia. XI. Each of the mails exchanged between the Post Offices of the two countries shall be accompanied by a letter bill in which the dispatching office shall state, under the classification established by the Convention of the 12th December, 1857, the nature of the articles which the mail contains and the amount of postage due to each office. The office to which the mail shall be forwarded shall acknowledge its receipt to the dispatching office by return of post. The letter bills and acknowledgments of receipt from the office of London for the offices of Turin, Genoa, and Nice, and for the travelling Post Office of the Victor Emmanuel Railway, and from the office of Dover for the office of Nice and for the travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway, shall be according to the patterns M and N, annexed to the present regulations. The letter bills and acknowledgments of receipt from the office of Malta for the office of Genoa shall be according to the patterns O and P, annexed to the present regulations. XII. If it should happen on the usual days for making up the mails that there should not be any letters or other correspondence from either of the offices of exchange for the corresponding office, a mail containing a blank letter bill shall nevertheless be sent. XIII. When the writers of letters addressed to the colonies and countries beyond sea shall wish that those letters should be conveyed by merchant ships leaving the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, such intention must be so expressed on the address. In all cases where such direction is not given, letters for the colonies and countries beyond sea shall be transmitted by means of the regular packets. XIV. The address of registered letters sent from one country to the other shall be entered in the table which is prepared for that purpose in the letter bill, with such particulars as are pointed out by the said table. These letters shall be tied up together with a cross string, the ends of which shall be made fast to the bottom of the letter bill of the despatching office by means of a seal made of sealing-wax. XV. Registered letters from British colonies or foreign countries shall be reciprocally exchanged between the British and Sar GREAT BRITAIN AND SARDINIA. dinian offices, with the precautions used for registered letters posted XVI. The British Post Office may deliver to the Post Office of On its side, the Post Office of Sardinia may deliver to the British XVII. The following regulations shall be observed with respect The Post Office of Sardinia shall account to the British Post Office for the sum of 3d., in addition to the postage due to the British Post Office, upon every registered letter originating in Sardinia or in any of the States of the Continent, and addressed to Malta, or originating in any of the States of the Continent, and forwarded by way of Sardinia, addressed to the United Kingdom, and for the sum of 9d. in addition to the postage due to the British Post Office upon every registered letter originating in Sardinia, or in any of the States of the Continent, and forwarded by way of Sardinia, addressed to any of the colonies enumerated in Article XVI (Malta excepted). On its side, the British Post Office shall account to the Post Office of Sardinia for the sum of 30 centimes, in addition to the postage due to the Post Office of Sardinia, upon every registered letter originating in Malta, and addressed to Sardinia, or originating in colonies or countries beyond sea, and forwarded by way of the United Kingdom, addressed to Sardinia, and for the sum of 80 centimes in addition to the postage due to the Post Office of Sardinia, upon every registered letter originating in Malta, and addressed to the several States of the Continent, enumerated in Article XVI preceding, or originating in the United Kingdom, or in colonies or countries beyond sea, and forwarded by way of the United Kingdom, addressed to the said States. XVIII. The respective Offices of Exchange shall divide the correspondence which they shall mutually exchange into as many distinct packets as there are different rates or special articles in the letter bills. To each packet shall be attached a label showing the number of the article in the account, as well as the net weight or the amount of postage to be brought to account in respect to the matter covered by the label. [1861-62. LII.] 4 F XIX. The labels which the respective Offices of Exchange shall make use of in virtue of the provisions of the previous Article shall be printed as follows: 1. On blue paper for paid correspondence. 2. On yellow paper for correspondence either unpaid or charged with transit postage. 3. And on white paper for matter giving rise to no account. XX. In addition to the local and date stamp with which ordinary or registered letters exchanged between the respective offices must be marked, such of those letters as have been paid to their destination shall bear plainly impressed on the address another stamp with the initials P.D, Book packets when paid to destination shall also bear the stamp P.D. Articles of a like nature addressed to the colonies and countries beyond sea exchanged between the same offices and paid to their destination shall also be marked with the stamp P.D. Those of the above mentioned articles which, in conformity with the Convention of the 12th December, 1857, must be forwarded on either side paid to some limit, shall be marked with the stamp bearing the initials P.P. Registered letters forwarded from either side must be marked with a special stamp bearing the word "assicurato" or "registered." Letters and book packets insufficiently paid must be marked with a stamp bearing the following words: In Sardinia," Francobolli insufficienti." XXI. The correspondence returned either in consequence of mis-direction or of change of residence of the persons to whom the letters are addressed shall be entered nominally in the tables of the letter bills specially] appropriated for the entry of such correspondence. Mis-directed correspondence shall be tied up with a cross string, and shall have a label attached bearing these words, "Mis-directed letters," or "Correspondances maldirigées." Correspondence re-directed to persons who have gone away, but have left their address, shall also be tied with a cross string, and shall have a label bearing these words, "Re-directed owing to change of residence," or 66 Correspondances ré-expédiées pour changement de résidence." XXII. The postage of all dead letters, which are to be mutually returned in conformity with Article XX of the Convention of the 12th December, 1857, shall be allowed in discharge of the office to which the said letters have been originally transmitted only when the state of their seals shall not lead to the supposition that the letters have been read by the persons to whom they are addressed, except, however, as regards letters which have been conveyed in transit, and which cannot be produced. XXIII. Letters forwarded for the purpose of annoying or injuring the parties to whom they are addressed, the postage of which both offices are authorized to return to the public, even after they have been opened, may be included and admitted with the dead letters mutually returned. XXIV. The Post Office of the United Kingdom shall prepare every month separate accounts exhibiting the results of the exchange of correspondence between the respective offices. Such accounts shall be founded upon the acknowledgments of receipt of the respective offices during the month. The separate accounts shall be immediately incorporated in a general account which shall exhibit the result of the exchange of correspondence whether in ordinary or closed mails during the month. The separate and general accounts shall be made out according to the forms agreed upon (Q. and R.) which are annexed to the present regulations. The general accounts shall be compared and settled by the two offices, and the balance shall be paid at the end of every quarter, either in British or French money, at the option of the office which shall be found to be indebted to the other. Done in duplicate, and signed in London the 24th December, 1857, and in Turin the 29th December, 1857. (L.S.) ARGYLL. (A.)—List of the Towns in Sardinia, and of the Foreign Countries the Correspondence of which to and from the United Kingdom, and to and from Countries in transit through the United Kingdom, should be forwarded by Turin. |