the delivery of the parcel a supplementary charge not exceeding the fee fixed for such delivery, according to the inland tariff of the country of destination, less the equivalent of the special fee paid by the sender.

4. Only one attempt shall be made to deliver an express parcel by special messenger. After a fruitless attempt, such a parcel shall be treated as an ordinary parcel.

5. If an express parcel shall be redirected to another country before any attempt has been made to deliver it by special messenger, the express delivery fee shall be credited to the Post Office of the new country of destination, provided that this office undertakes express delivery. Otherwise the fee shall be retained by the office of the first destination; and this shall also be done in the case of undelivered parcels.

VIII.-1. The sender of a parcel may take upon himself the payment of all charges due upon it in the country of destination, provided that he formally notifies his desire to the office of posting, and undertakes to pay the charges in question on demand.

2. For the work involved in this arrangement, the office of posting may collect and retain a fee not exceeding 6d. per parcel. It may also collect in advance such sum as it considers sufficient to meet the charges which will become payable.

IX. The parcels to which the present Agreement applies cannot be subjected to any postal charge other than those contemplated by the different Articles of the Agreement.

X. For the redirection of parcels from one country to the other, as well as for the return of undelivered parcels, a supplementary charge on the basis of the rates fixed by Article IV shall be collected from the addressees or the senders, as the case may be.

XI.-1. It is forbidden to send by post uninsured parcels the declared value of which exceeds 507., or parcels containing letters or communications of the nature of a letter, or articles the admission of which is not authorized by the Customs or other laws or regulations of either country. A parcel may, however, contain an open invoice in its simplest form.

2. It is equally forbidden to send coin, anything made of gold or silver, or other precious articles from one country to the other in uninsured parcels.

3. No parcel may contain inclosures directed to persons at an address other than that borne by the parcel.

4. If a parcel contravening any of these prohibitions shall be handed over by one post-office to the other, the latter shall proceed in the manner and with the formalities prescribed by its law or Inland Regulations.

XIL-1. Except in cases beyond control, when a parcel has

been lost or damaged or its contents abstracted, the sender or, in default or at the request of the sender, the addressee shall be entitled to an indemnity corresponding with the actual amount of the loss, damage, or abstraction: Provided always that this indemnity may not exceed, in the case of an uninsured parcel, 17., and, in the case of an insured parcel, the sum for which it has been insured. The sender of a parcel which has been lost, or of which the contents have been completely destroyed in the post, shall also be entitled to have the postage refunded to him.

2. The obligation of paying the indemnity shall rest with the Administration to which the dispatching office is subordinate. To that Administration shall be reserved a remedy against the Administration responsible, that is to say, against the Administration on the territory or in the service of which the loss, damage, or abstraction took place.

3. Until the contrary be shown, the responsibility shall rest with the Administration which, having received the parcel without making any observation, cannot prove its delivery to the addressee, or, in the case of a transit parcel, its regular transfer to the following Administration.

4. The payment of the indemnity to the sender or addressee ought to take place as soon as possible, and at the latest within a year of the date of the application. The Administration responsible will be bound to make good, without delay, the amount of the indemnity paid.

5. It is understood that no application for an indemnity will be entertained unless made within a year of the posting of the parcel ; after this term the applicant will have no right to any indemnity.

6. If the loss or the damage occurred in course of conveyance between the exchanging offices of the two countries, and it shall not be possible to ascertain where the loss or damage took place, each Administration shall pay half of the indemnity.

7. The Administrations will cease to be responsible for parcels of which the owners have accepted delivery.

XIII.-1. No parcel may be insured for an amount above the real value of its contents.

2. In case the sender of an insured parcel, with intent to defraud, shall declare the contents to be above their real value, he shall lose all claim to compensation; and the enforcement of this rule shall not prejudice any legal proceeding of which the law of the country of origin may admit.

XIV. The internal legislation both of the United Kingdom and of Egypt shall remain applicable as regards everything not provided for by the stipulations contained in the present Agreement.

XV. The two Postal Administrations shall indicate the offices or

localities which they admit to the international exchange of parcels; they shall regulate the mode of transmission of these parcels, and fix all other measures of detail and order necessary for insuring the performance of the present Agreement.

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XVI. This Agreement shall supersede the Agreement of the 29th May and the 11th June, 1895, and the Additional Articles of the 21st and 28th December, 1897.† It shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1899, and shall be terminable on a notice of one year by either Party.

Done in duplicate, at London, the 7th day of October, 1899; and at Alexandria, the 28th day of October, 1899.

(L.S.) NORFOLK. (L.S.) Y. SABA.

DETAILED REGULATIONS for carrying out the Agreement between the British and Egyptian Post Offices concerning the Exchange of Parcels by Parcel Post.-Signed at London, October 7; and at Alexandria, October 28, 1899.

I. CLOSED parcel mails shall be made up in London for the Egyptian Post Offices at Port Saïd and (when opportunity offers) Alexandria.

In the opposite direction these offices shall make up closed parcel mails for London.

II. Parcels posted in the United Kingdom for Egypt must not exceed 3 ft. 6 in. in length, or 6 feet in length and girth combined; and parcels posted in Egypt for the United Kingdom must not exceed 60 centim. in length, breadth, or depth.

III.-1. Parcels containing live animals (except bees, secured in properly constructed boxes), explosive or combustible matter, and, in general, articles the conveyance of which is attended by danger, shall be excluded from the parcel post.

2. The two Administrations shall furnish each other with a list of prohibited articles, but they will not thereby undertake any responsibility whatever towards either the police, the Customs authorities, or the senders of parcels.

IV.-1. No parcel must be accepted for conveyance by parcel post unless it bear the exact direction of the addressee. The address of parcels containing coin, articles of gold or silver, jewellery, or other precious objects, must be written on the actual covering of the parcel.

2. Every parcel must be packed in a manner adequate for the * Vol. LXXXVII, page 61. + Vol. LXXXIX, page 212.

length of the journey and for the protection of the contents. The packing must be such as to make it impossible for the contents to be tampered with without leaving an obvious trace of violation.

3. Every parcel must be sealed by means of sealing-wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress or mark of the sender.

4. Every insured parcel must bear on the cover a statement of the sum for which it is insured, without erasure or addition, even if certified. When this statement is expressed in Egyptian money, the sender or the post-office of the country of origin must indicate by new figures, placed beside or below the others, the equivalent of the amount in English money or in francs and centimes.

V.-1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a Customs declaration in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen (A) appended to these Regulations.

2. The Administrations will not be responsible for the correctness of the Customs declarations.

3. At the foot of the declaration form the dispatching office of exchange shall enter the number of the parcel-bill and the number against which the parcel is entered on the bill.

4. The exact weight of an insured parcel in kilogrammes and grammes must be entered by the office of origin on the cover of the parcel.

VI.-1. Each insured parcel must bear a red label with the word "Insured" or "Valeur déclarée" upon it.

2. The labels on parcels containing coin, articles of gold or silver, jewellery, or other precious objects must be so placed that they cannot serve to conceal injuries to the cover. They must not be folded over two sides of the cover so as to hide the edge.

VII.-1. Express parcels and also their dispatch-notes shall be impressed with a stamp, or have affixed to them a label showing the word "Express" in bold letters.

2. When an express parcel is entered on the parcel-bill, the word "Express" shall be written against the entry in the column for observations.

3. The express parcels forwarded in a mail shall be placed all together, and, as far as possible, in the receptacle which contains the parcel-bill and other documents. When this is not the case, the receptacle containing the express parcels shall be indicated by a

special label.

VIII.-1. Each parcel intended for delivery free of charge must be legibly marked with the words "franc de droits," and must be accompanied by a franking-note in conformity with or analogous to the specimen (B) hereto annexed. Such parcels must also be distinguished on the parcel-bill by an entry in the column for observations.

2. The receiving office of exchange must enter on the frankingnote the particulars of the charges payable on the parcel, and must return the note as soon as possible to the dispatching office of exchange attached to a parcel-bill, on which the sum due must be debited to that office.

IX.-1. The parcels shall be entered by the dispatching office of exchange on a parcel-bill, in conformity with specimen (C) appended to the present Regulations, with all the details required by this form. The insured parcels shall be entered together on separate

sheets of the bill.

2. The parcel-bills of each calendar year shall be numbered consecutively.

3. One copy of the parcel-bill shall be forwarded by letter-post by the first mail; a second copy shall be inclosed in one of the parcel receptacles, which shall be distinguished by a red label.

X.-1. Each mail shall be accompanied throughout by a waybill, giving particulars of the receptacles which contain the mail.

2. The information required by the French and Italian Post Offices respecting the mails sent through France and Italy shall be furnished in each case by the dispatching office of exchange.

XI. On the receipt of a parcel-bill, the receiving office of exchange shall proceed to verify the parcels and the various documents entered on the bill, and, if needful, to report missing articles or any irregularities by means of a verification certificate in conformity with the annexed specimen (D).

XII.-1. Mis-sent parcels shall be forwarded to their destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the office retransmitting them. When this retransmission shall involve the return of the parcels to the office of origin, the number of rates entered or amounts credited in the parcel-bill of that office shall be cancelled, and the retransmitting office of exchange shall send back the parcels to the office from which it received them, simply recording them on the parcel-bill. Attention shall be called to the error by means of a verification certificate.

2. In other cases, and if the amount credited to the retransmitting office shall be insufficient to cover the expenses of retransmission which it has to defray, it shall recover the difference by claiming it in the next account. The treatment of the parcel shall be notified to the dispatching office by means of a verification certificate.

3. Parcels redirected to a country which participates in the parcel post between Egypt and the United Kingdom shall be subjected by the delivering office to a charge, to be paid by the addressees, representing the sums due to this latter office, to the redirecting office, and to each intermediate office, if there be any.