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POSTAL CONVENTlON—FBANOm. Arm:. 28, 1874. 819 the number of single-rates or the sums, as the case may be, inscribed upon the letter·b1ll. Aurrenm 11. ‘ Registered letters shall be entered by name onthe _1etter-bill of the Registeredlctters. dispatching office, with all the details which this bill allows. _ These letters shall form a special packet, covered with an envelope of white paper, sealed on all the folds by means of the seal of the dispatching office, and surrounded by a string placed crosswise. The ends of this string shall be attached to the bottom of the letter-bill by means of a gum seal. The letter-bill must bear the stamp ‘*0hargé," or “Registered," whenever the mail shall contain one or more registered letters. Anrrronn 12. Every mail, after having been tied up interiorly, must be enveloped Mails, how tied in gray paper, in sumoient quantity to resist the friction, then tied ex· ““d °'“'°1°P°d· _ teriorly and sealed with wax, with the impression of the office seal. The string which shall surround a mail exteriorly must alwaysbe without knot. ’ Ancrrcnn 13. In case that, on the day nxed for the dispatch of the mails, an ex- When no corrochange-office should have no object to address to the corresponding “P°”d°°°°· office, this exchange-office must nevertheless send, in the ordinary form, a mail, which shall contain only a negative letter-bill. Anrrcnn 14. The postage or charge upon letters that have become dead, from, P°°*°U° °° and wb atever cause, which the two administrations shall return to each °°°°"‘ other, by virtue of Article XIII of the convention of 28th April, 1874, shall only be admitted in release of the administration to which these letters shall have been originally transmitted, so far as the condition of their seals shall not give reason to suppose that they have been opened. Dow I tum However, scurrilous letters and those commonly called decoy letters, Y ° may be comprised and admitted in the dead matterreciprocally re turned, even though these letters may have been opened. · Anrrronn 15. X Letters not claimed, addressed paste-restantv or in furnished hotels, dgvtdivzgd tm may, after three montbs’ stay, be returned on both sides, under the cou- p~,ff,,_,ya,,,,, gk ditions iixed by Article XIII, before cited, and the preceding article. ’ · The account of the total of dead matter shall be prepared in bordereaux, conforming to the model F, annexed to the present regulations. Anriorn 16. _ It is agreed that the provisions of the convention of 28th April, 1874, and of the present regulations, shall be put into execution the 1st of August, 1874. . Done in duplicate and signed at Washington the 9th of June, 1874, - and at Paris the 26th of June, 1874. — [SEAL.] ‘JNO. A. J. GRESWELL, Postmaster-General. [SEAL.] LE LIBON, , Director-General of Posts.