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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH HONG KONG. AUGUST 10, 1867. 1107 Postal Uonvmlian between the United States of America and the Colonial Government of Hong Kong, O/aim:. Am-xcnns of agreement between the Post Office Department of the United A¤s¤¤¤ I0. 186% States and the General Post Office at Hong Kong. _"""`°"' For the purpose of establishing and regulating the interchanve of Contracting mails between the United States and Hong Kong and dependent Chinese WW- ports, by means of the direct line of United States mail packets plyinrr between San Francisco and Hong Kong, via Yokohama in Japan, it ai agreed between the Post Onice Department of the United States and the Post Office Department of Hong Kong: Amicnm I. The post offices of New York and San Francisco shall 0***** °f¤¤· be the United States offices of exchange, and the General Post Office at  °"°b' Hong Kong the office of exchange of the colony of Hong Kong for all mails transmitted under this arrangement. Anrrcnn II. There shall be an exchange of correspondence between Correspondthe United States of America. andthe colony of Hong Kong, by means of °“°° *° b° °x* United States mail packets, plying between Sun Francisco and Hong °h°mg°d` Kong, comprising letters, newspapers, and prices current originating and posted in the United States, and addressed to and deliverable in Hong Kong and those Chinese ports with which the Hong Kong post office has postal relations, including the ports of Canton, Amoy, Swatow, and Fo0- chow, and, vice versa, of correspondence originating and posted in Hong Kong and the Chinese ports above designated, and addressed to and deliverable in the United States. Airricmz III. The postage to be levied and collected at the office of R•*°° °* PW- mailing in the United States, upon letters, newspapers, and prices current, destined for Hong Hong and the above designated Chinese ports, with I which Hong Kong has postal connections, shall be ten cents per single rate of halt' an ounce or under on letters, and two cents each on newspapers and prices current; and the postage to be levied and collected at Hong Kong and dependent Chinese ports, on correspondence originating in those ports and destined to the United States, shall be eight cents per single rate of half an ounce or under on letters, and two cents on each newspaper- or price current. No postal accounts shall be kept between No postulathe respective postal departments upon the correspondence exchanged be- ::**2** tv W tween them under this arrangement, but each department shall deliver P the correspondence which it receives from the other free of all postage , charge, that is to say, the Hong Kong post department agrees to deliver without charge all letters, newspapers, and prices current, brought by the United States mail packets, addressed to Hong Kong, und, also, to forward without charge all such letters, newspapers, &c., as are addressed to the Chinese ports above named, south of Shanghae; and the United States postal department, on its side, agrees to deliver without charge all letters, newspapers, &c., originating in Hong Kong, or the ports_mentioncd, and forwarded by said packets addressed to and deliverable in the United States. All letters, newspapers, &c., despatched by either office Lsttsrs,6vc.tc to the other, under this arrangement, shall be plainly stamped with the R';]?:";}';?} words “ paid all," in red ink, on the right·hand upper corner of the face of the address, and shall also bear the stamp of the mailing exchange ofiice on their face, and that of the receiving exchange office on their back. Anrmnm IV. The postal departments of the United States and of Lott¤¤·¤»x£l¤· Hong Kong shall each return to the other, monthly, or as trequently as “°° d°ll"° ln