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POSTAL CONVENTIONTCANADA JANUARY 12, 1888. 1413 Postal Convention between the United States of America and the -¥¤¤¤¤~w 12.1688. Dommwn of Canada. January 1o,1ssn. For the purpose·of makin better ostal arran ements between th Pream United States of America gid the Bominion ofgCanada, the under? mesigned W1ll1am F. Vilas, Postmaster-General of the United States of America, and Archibald Woodbury McLelan, Postmaster General of the Domy 1on of Canada, b virtue of authority vested in them by law, have agreed upon the following articles: Anrronn 1. _ (a)_ Articles of every kind or nature, which are admitted to the do- Amcnesadmxmdw mestic mails of either country, except as herein prohibited, shall be °'° “‘°““· admitted to the mails exchanged under this Convention; subject however t0_ such regulations as the Postal Administration of the country of dest1nation may deem necessary to protect its customs revenues. But articles other than letters in their usual and ordinary form, must never be closed against inspection but must be so wrapped or enclosed that they may be rea ily and thoroughly examined by poggmaisgers or Customs Officersh '· d e o owing artic es are ro ibited a mission to the mails ex- c, , changed under this Conventioli: Amd excluded Pu hcations which violate the copy-right laws of the country of destination; packets, except single volumes of printed books, the wexght of which exceeds two kilograms ; liquids, poisons, explosive or- mflammable substances, fatty substances, those which easily liquefy, live or dead animals not dried, insects and reptiles, confections, pastes, fruits and vegetables which will easily ecom ose, and substances which exhale a bad odor, lottery tickets or circidars, allobscene and immoral articles, other articles which may destroy — or in any way damage the mails, or injure the person handling them. _ (b) Except as reejuired by the regulations of the countiiy of des- D,,u,,,.,_ tmation for the col ection of its custom duties, all admissib e matter mailed in one country for the other, or received in one country from the other, whether by land or sea conveyance. shall be free from any detention or inspection whatever, an shall in the first case be forwarded by the most speedy means to its destination. and in the latter be romptly delivered to the respective persons to whom it is addressed? being subject in its transmission to the laws and regulations of each country respectively. _ _ (G) The classification o , and the rates of postage and the registrar- Glnnmcnuou. tion fee to be levied andcollected upon, mail-matter originating in either country and addressed to the other, shall be in accordance A»¢.p.ss. with the domestic laws and regulations of the country of origin; provided that the rates of postage and registration fees so levied shall not exceed in either country the minimum rates of postage and registration fee prescribed for articles of a like nature by Articles 5 and 6 of the Universal Postal Union Convention of Paris of June, 1878, as amended by the Additional Act of Lisbon of March 21, 1885. 4m, p. e. An·r1oLm 2. » ' (a) Each Administration shall retain to its own use the whole P¤v¤¤¤¢¤¢v¤¤¢•s¤- of the postages and registration fees it collects on postal articles exchanged wit the other, including deficient Consequently, there will be no postage accounts between the two countries.