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 978 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH-PRUSSIA. Duo. 1860, & APRIL, 1861. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES December 28, Agreed upon between the General Post-Office of the United States of £°*;·8,;"d AP"! America and the General Post- Office of Prussia. _ IN pursuance of the power granted by Article I. of the postal convention between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Prussia, signed at Wasliington on the 17th of July, and at Berlin on the_26th of August, 1852, to select additional or different offices of exchange in either or both countries, by mutual agreement of the two post administrations, the following additional articles are hereby agreed upon, viz. :-—- Additional Anrrcre I. There shall be established, on the part of the United
 * 3*:* °f °"‘ States, additional offices of exchange at Portland, Detroit, and Chicago,

g°' respectively, to correspond with Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) by closed mail through England, by means of Canadian mail packets, plying direct between Liverpool and Portland during the winter, and between Liverpool and River du Loup or Quebec, in summer. Description of ARTICLE IL The description of letters, &c. which shall be comprised 52:5•l€”;,:° in the closed mails forwarded from the aforesaid United States exchange ' offices to Aachen (Aix—la-Chapelle), and vice versa, from the Prussian exchange office of Aachen (Aix-la·Cbapelle) to Portland, Detroit, and Chicago, respectively, shall be from time to time arranged by` O01TB- spondence between the Post-Oiiice Departments of the two countries. Accounts for Aarxcm III. The respective Post-Otlice Departments of the two §°“8:£°&:f::°° countries are to account with each other for the international and other ,,;,,1 Pmnw correspondence so exchanged by means of the Canadian mail packets, precisely in the same manner as if the sea transportation were performed by a United States packet between New York and Liverpool. These to be Amicus IV. The present articles shall be considered as additional to 39E3E3F:;!?- the original articles of the postal convention between the United States ’° °°' and Prussia, signed at Washington the 17th July, and at Berlin the 26th August, 1852, and shall go into effect in each country at the expiration of fifteen days from the time that notice is received of their being coneluded. In witness whereof, the heads of the departments have Hxed their names and seals of office to these presents, at the dates set opposite to each, respectively. [1.. s.] J. HOLT, Postmaster- General. December 28, 1860. [1.. s.] VON DER HEYDT, Royal Prussian Mnister of State for Commerce, Tracks, and Public Work:. Baum, April 24, 1861.