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 1102 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH MEXICO. Duc 11, 1861. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on lboth parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged in the city of Mexico on the twentieth ultimo : -- _ Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM Lmcomr, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to. be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulnlled by the United States and the citizens thereofl In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed. I _ Done at the city of Washington, this twentieth day of June, m the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, [san.] and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty`Sim' ABRAHAM mvoonn 1 . By the President : WILLIAM H. Smwann, Secretary of State. jul? *· lm- Rtgulativm under the Treaty, and Rates of Postage between the United States and México. Posr-Omucm DEPA5TMENT, uly 4, 1862. BY the recent postal convention with Mexico, proclaimed by the President on the 20th of June, 1862, the following rates of postage are established, of which postmasters will take notice 2 —- Kms ¤f post- 1st. The single letter rate (inland three cents and sea seven cents) is °8°' ten cents per half-ounce; and for each fraction over, an additional rate; and prepayment is required. This applies to all letters sent to Mexico from the United States by sea. 2d. On all letters received from Mexico by sea the United States domestic rate of postage is to be charged, rating them at the first United States post-office at which they are mailed to their destination, either three or ten cents per single rate. This is to be collected on delivery. 3d. On all letters sent to or received from Mexico, when not conveyed by sea, the United States domestic postage only, of three or ten cents the singleqate, is to be charged. This must be prepaid at the mailing office on letters sent, and collected at the oiicice of delivery on letters received. 4th. The sea rate on printed matter sent to Mexico is one cent for each newspaper and one cent per ounce (or fraction of an ounce) on all magazines, periodical publications, and other printed matter; and this is to be added, when sent by sca. to our usual inland rate of postage; and this combined rate must be prepaid at the mailing-office in the United States. When sent by land the United States inland rate of postage only is to be charged and prepaid at the mailing office. o 5th. On all such printed matter received from Mexico only our usual inland postage is be collected, and this must be paid in all cases on delivery sp: thehotiice of pddress. b Gt. ese regu ations must e strictl observed as no kept with the Mexican Postal Departmeni: ’ accounts am JOHN A. KASSON, First Assistant Postmaster- General.