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POSTAL CONVENTION WITII PRUSSIA. AUG. 29 & Ocr. 14, 1855. 977 ARTICLE V. Registered letters received at New York or Boston from R°Sl¤*°*`°=d l°*· Aachen, or received at Aachen from New York or Boston, and destined :$;;;gd?° f°r` for an inland posboffice, shall be forwarded in the same manner as other registered letters originally mailed at either office. ARTICLE VI. The United States and Prussian Post—OtHces shall re- twigs3E2t5v:):' ciprocally account to each other upon such registered lettersas shall be cguntrigg, exchanged between them, in the same manner as prescribed in the postal convention signed at Washington on the 17th of July, and at Berlin on the 26th day of August, 1852 ; but the registration fee of five cents shall accrue to the United States Post-Oflice Department upon all registered letters sent from the United States to Prussia, and to the Prussian Post- Office Department upon all registered letters sent from Prussia to the United States. In witness whereof, the heads of the departments have affixed their names and seals of office to these presents, at the dates set opposite to each, respectively. [L. s.] JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster- General. Wssuruorou, August 29, 1855. [L. s.] VON DER HEYDT, His Prussian Ma;`esty’s Minister of State for Commerce and Public War/cs. BERLIN, October 14, 1855. v0L. xvr. TREAT. — 62