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A(}REEMENT—DOMl}lIOl< OF CANADA. MAY 3, 1881. 785 Additional articles of agreement between the Post 0 D artment A ru V United States of Amereba and the Post Qyioe jgigretnoyent of thefg: mtnwn of Canada. —-·———-———-· F 0I" the purpose of afordiug to the public increased facilities for the Contracting parexchange of written correspondence and also of preventing evasions by impubhshers of the postal laws and regulations of the United States P'°““‘m°‘ the undersigned duly authorized by their respective governments have agreed upon the following additional articles to the postal arrangement Stat. 20,oouven- 27 January tions, p. 673. of . 1875. ~ 1 February Aerrotnn 1. Insufficiently paid letters mailed in the United States and addressed i¤¤¤iii<=io¤i= PW to Canada or vice-versa, mailed in Canada and addressed to the United P“Ym°“*· States, on which a single rate of postage or more has been prepaid, shall be tbrwarded charged with the amount of deticient postage to be col- Qoilootious on looted on delivery and retained by the Post Department of the country d°1“’°'Y · ggtdgstingtion. gfheihaméiunt oilllgich dplncient ppstage shall be indiin ures e es atcexc an office. on the u left hand corngr of tbz address.!) g geppm. Anrronn 2. when newspapers periodicals and other printed matter published or Penalty for wa- 01'1g1113»t1I1g in the U,nited States are brought into Canada and posted sions of po¤t¤1rcgthere for destinations in the United States apparently to evade the post- “1“°‘°““· age rates or regulations applicable to such matter in the United States, the Canada Post Office may require prepayment of the same to be made at a rate equivalent to double the Canada domestic rates. Anrionn 3. The provisions of Article 1 of the Postal Arrangement of the 27th Abrogation or January and 1st February, 1875, so far as they conilict with the present rfopségug gg Artiarticles are abrogated. $,3,,,],,,,: i,_ g32T` - Anmxonn 4._ ’ The present articles shall be considered additional to those agreed Additional arti- ¤1l•011 between the two offices on the 27th January and lst February, ”‘,;H]’g;[“*c 1875 and shall come into operation on the lst day of May 1881. cludgd Jn_ @7 and Feb. 1, 1875. Convention to take effect May 1, 1881. In witness whereof the Postmaster General of the United States and the Po tmaster General of Canada have here to set their hands and aiilxed their seals, at the date set opposite to each respectively. _ [SEAL.] THOMAS L. JAMES Signatures. Postmaster General of the United States. WAsmNe·roN, Mag 3, 1881. [sEAL.] ‘ A. CAMPBELL, P. M. G. of Canada. OTTAWA, Aprtl 28, 1881. I hereby approve the aforegoing additional articles and in testimony Approval. thereof, 1 have caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. [SEAL.] JAMES A. GARFIELD. By the President: J Aims G. Bnnnvn, Secretary of State. {WASHINGTON, May 3rd, 1881. XXL-50