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(3.) The total number of registered articles, of packages or bags containing such articles, of loose registered articles, and of articles for express delivery, distinguishing among the latter the registered articles, if any, must be entered at the head of the Letter Bill. (4.) The registered articles are entered separately in the first column of the Letter Bill, with the following details : —The name of the office of origin, and the registered number of that office, the name of the addressee, and the place of destination. In the column "Observations" is added the letters AR for such articles for which acknowledgments of delivery are required. In the same column the abbreviation " Remb." followed by the indication in figures of the amount to* be collected, is added against the entry of articles inscribed with trade charges. The returned acknowledgments of delivery are entered in the Table referred to, either separately or collectively, according as these acknowledgments may be more or less numerous. (5.) When the number of registered articles despatched habitually from one office of exchange to another renders it desirable, special and detached lists must be used in place of Table I. of the Letter Bill. The number of registered articles entered on these Lists, and the number of packages or bags enclosing such articles, must be entered on the Letter Bill. (6.) The closed mails included in the despatches to which the Letter Bill directly relates are entered in Table 2, with the details that this Table requires. (7.) Under the heading " Recommendations d'Office" (Official Registrations) are entered the letters on open service, the various applications or communications from the despatching office having reference to the service of exchange, as well as the number of empty bags returned. (8,) When it is considered necessary in certain cases to create other tables or headings upon the Letter Bill, these may be arranged by common consent between the Administrations interested. (9.) When an office of exchange has no correspondence to forward to an office corresponding therewith, it must at least send in the ordinary way a mail composed solely of the Letter Bill. (10.) When closed mails are confided by one Administration to another in order to be transmitted by merchant vessels, the number or weight of the letters and other articles must be indicated on the Letter Bill, and upon the address of the mails, when the office charged with the embarkation of the mails demands it. * Article 21. Transmission of registered Correspondence, XI. Registered articles, acknowledgments of delivery, articles for express delivery, and if there be any, the special lists provided by* Section 5, Article 20, are collected in one or more separate packages or bags, which must be suitably wrapped or enclosed and sealed in a manner to preserve their contents. Registered articles are made up in each package following the order of their entry. When several detached lists are used each of them is inserted in the package to which it relates. The special envelope containing the letter bill is attached with string tied across and across to the outside of the package of registered articles. The package is then placed in the centre of the mail. Article 22. Making up Mails, XIII. Completed by the addition of the following paragraph :— " Letters bearing traces of having been opened or damaged must be endorsed to that effect, and impressed with the date-stamp of the office which discovers the fault." Article 23. Verification of Mails, XIV. Completed by adding the following paragraphs :— " At the same time a duplicate of the verification certificate is sent by the receiving office to the Administration to which the despatching office is subordinate." " Upon recovery of a mail, failure of which has been reported to the office of origin, or to an intermediary office, a second verification certificate must be sent to such office advising the subsequent receipt of the mail." The words " to the despatching office by the first mail after verification," have been inserted in place of " by the first mail to the despatching office a verification certificate." Article 24. Mails exchanged with ships of war, XXVI. When mails addressed to a naval division or to a man-of-war are despatched unenclosed, the captain of the postal packet conveying such mails holds them at the disposal of the Commander of the division or man-of-war to which they are addressed, in case that officer may demand delivery en route. Section 7 of the Vienna Convention struck out.

Sec. 1. France.

Sec, 2. France. Sec. 1. Austria.

Sec. 6. Switzerland. France.

Section 8. Great Britain.

Sec. 3. Completed by new paragraph.