62 STAT.] MULTILATERALIUNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 ARTICLE 116. Commercial papers. 1. The following are considered as commercial papers, on condition that they do not have the character of actual personal correspondence: All papers and documents, wholly or partly written or drawn; such as out-of-date articles of correspondence (opened letters and post cards) which have already reached their original destination, and copies thereof; papers of legal procedure; documents of all kinds drawn up by ministerial officers; waybills or bills of lading; invoices; certain documents of insurance companies; copies of or extracts from documents under private seal written on stamped or unstamped paper; scores or sheets of music in manuscript; manuscripts of works or newspapers sent separately; original and corrected exercises of students, but without any notes not relating directly to the execution of the work. 2. Such documents may be accompanied by reference slips or invoices bearing the following or similar notations: Enumeration of the pieces composing the shipment, references to correspondence exchanged between the sender and the addressee, such as: "Inclosure for our letter of . ...... . addressed to M ......... Our reference ........ Customer's reference ..... . " 3. Out-of-date correspondence may bear canceled postage stamps or postage-paid impressions which have served to pay the original postage. 4. The following are also considered as commercial papers, even when they have the character of actual and personal correspondence: All articles containing correspondence exchanged between students in schools, provided that such articles are sent through the intermediary of the heads of the schools concerned. 5. Commercial papers are subject, in regard to form and make-up, to the provisions laid down by Article 120 hereafter for prints. ARTICLE 117. Prints. 1. The following are considered as prints: Newspapers and period- icals, books, pamphlets, sheet-music, visiting cards, address cards, printing proofs, engravings, photographs and albums containing photographs, pictures, drawings, plans, maps, patterns to be cut out, catalogs, prospectuses, advertisements, and printed, engraved, litho- graphed or autographed notices of various kinds, and, in general, all impressions or reproductions obtained on paper or other material assimilable to paper, on parchment or on cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography or any other easily recognizable mechanical process, with the exception of the copying press, stamps with movable or immovable type, and the typewriter. 2. The print rate does not apply to prints which bear any marks capable of constituting a conventional language, or, with the excep- tions specifically authorized by Articles 118 and 119 hereafter, to those whose text has been modified after printing. 3357 Reference slips, no- tations. Form and makeup. Exclusions from print rate.
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