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Article 16. Commercial Papers, XVII. Completed by adding:— " The corrected exercises of students, comment on the work is forbidden." Article 17. Samples, XIX. Articles made of glass, liquids, oils, fatty substances, dry powders, whether dyes or not, as well as packets containing live bees, are admitted for transmission as samples of merchandise, provided that they be packed in the following manner :— (1.) Articles made of glass must be packed solidly in boxes of metal, wood, leather, or cardboard, in such a manner as to prevent danger to correspondence and to the employee. Completed by adding : — " When perforated blocks of wood, lined with absorbent substances and furnished with a lid, are used having at least a thickness of xV tn 0I " an " lcn * n t,ie weakest part, it is unnecessary that such blocks be enclosed in a second box. Objects of natural history, animals, and dried or preserved plants, geological specimens, &c, not sent with a commercial end in view, and the packing of which conforms with the general conditions respecting samples of merchandise, are also admitted to the rates of postage for samples." Article 18. Printed papers of every kind, XVIII. After " photographs," add "albums containing photographs." Second paragraph commences " Reproductions of type copy made in manuscript or by the typewriter when obtained by a mechanical process such as poligraphy, chromography, &c, &c, are assimilated to printed matter, but in order to pass at the reduced rate of postage they must be brought to the Post Office counter and must number at least twenty copies precisely identical. Printed papers of which the text has been altered after printing either by hand or by a mechanical process, or bears any mark whatever capable of constituting a Conventional Language, cannot be sent at the reduced rate. To add in manuscript on printed visiting cards, the address of the sender and his title, as well as wishes, congratulations, thanks, compliments of condolence or other forms of politeness 'expressed in five words at most or by means of conventional initials, (p.f. &c.) To make prominent by means of marks and by underlining words or passages of the text to which it is desired to draw attention. To insert or correct, in manuscript or by mechanical process, the figures in prices current, tenders for advertisements, stock and share lists, trade circulars and prospectuses, as well as the name of the traveller, the date and the locality wdiich he intends visiting, on traveller's cards. After " engravings," insert " Christmas and New Year cards." After " requisitions," insert "or subscriptions relative to works of the Library " (books, newspapers, engravings, &c.) Commences " Save the exceptions explicitly authorised by the present article, additions made in manuscript, &c." Article 19. Articles grouped together, XX. Nil. Article 20. Letter Bills, X. (1.) Letter Bills which accompany the mails exchanged between two Administrations of the Union are prepared in accordance with Model C. annexed hereto. They are placed in coloured envelopes bearing distinctly the indications " Feuille d'Avis," (Letter Bill.) (2.) The number of bags or packages composing the mail is entered in the right-hand upper corner of the Letter Bill relating thereto, if necessary. Excepting arrangements to the contrary in the cases of exchanges by sea, which, although periodical and regular, are not daily or on fixed days, the despatching offices must number the Letter Bills on the left-hand upper corner in an annual series for each office of origin and for each office of destination, mentioning, when possible, above the number, the name of the vessel by which the mail is conveyed.

Sec. ], France.

Sec. 4, Sub-sec. 1. Germany.

Sub-sec. 2. France.

Sec. 5. Belgium and Switzerland.

Sec. 1. Great Britain,

Sec. 3.

Sec. 4, Sub-sec. b. Egypt.

Sub-sec. g. Russia.

Sub-sec- h. Switzerland and Great Britain.

Sub-sec. I.

Sub-sec. m.

Sec. 5.

Re-drafted as suggested by France.