208
packets shall submit to the sanitary, police, and customs' regulations of those ports concerning the arrival and departure of travellers.
Nevertheless, the passengers admitted on board those packets who do not think fit to land during the stay at one of the said ports, shall not, under any pretext, be removed from on board, be liable to any search, or be subjected to the formality of a visa of their passports.
ARTICLE VII.
The packets of the two Offices may enter or leave the ports of the two States at any hour of the day or night. They may also, if they think proper, without anchoring, embark or disembark the mails and passengers in the roads or at the entrance of the harbours, so long as they observe the regulations referred to in Article VI preceding.
ARTICLE VIII.
Whenever a packet carrying mails shall be compelled to put into any port of either of the two States, other than that at which such packet should touch, the Post Office of the place where the said mails shall be landed, shall use the most certain and expeditious means of forwarding them to their destination.
ARTICLE IX.
The British Government reserves to itself the full and entire power to modify, when necessary, the route as well as the days and hours of departure and arrival of the packets which it may think proper to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize, for the conveyance of correspondence.
The French Government reserves to itself the same power as regards the packets which it may think right to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize for the conveyance of correspondence.
The two Offices shall be bound to give each other timely notice of the above-mentioned alterations.
It is, nevertheless, understood that the provisions of the present Article are not applicable to the two services established between Dover and Calais in virtue of Article I of the present Convention.
ARTICLE X.
In case of accidents or damage sustained in the course of their navigation by the packets respectively employed by the two Offices in the conveyance of the mails, the Contracting Parties engage to afford mutually to those vessels, all the aid and assistance which their situation may require, and to cause all necessary repairs to be made, and all damaged or destroyed rigging and machinery to be replaced by their arsenals, as far as may be practicable, according to the fixed charges of those establishments.
ARTICLE XI.
In case of war between the two nations, the packets of the two Offices shall continue their navigation, without impediment or molestation, until a notification is made on the part of either of the two Governments, of the discontinuance of the postal communications; in which case they shall be permitted to return freely, and under special protection, to their respective ports.
ARTICLE XII.
The captains of the packets engaged in the conveyance of the respective mails of the two Offices, are forbidden to take charge of any letter not included in their mail-bags, except, however, despatches of their Governments. They must take care that no letters are conveyed illegally by their crews or passengers, and must give information in the proper quarter of any breach of the laws which may be committed in that respect.
ARTICLE XIII.
The postage to be collected in France and Algeria upon paid letters addressed either to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or to the Island of Malta, as well as upon unpaid letters originating either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Island of Malta, shall be as follows, viz.:-
309