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 POSTAL CONVENTIONS. Convention between the United States of America and ber Illajesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Improvement of the Communication by Post between their respective Territories. Ooncluded and signed at London on the 15th December, 1848; Ratijied by the President of the United States on the 6th January, 1849; Exchanged at London on the 26th January, 1849; Proilgigzed by the President of the United States on the 15th February, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: g°°~l5» T848- [ bsolete. PROCLAMATION. Sr~**·¤·””°·] Wnnnnss a convention between the United States of America and PY°¤mbl°· her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was concluded and signed at London, on the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- eight, which convention is, word for word, as follows : ——- The United States of America and her Majesty, the Queen of the 09¤'¤¤¤*i¤8 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous to promote P°m°°' the friendly relations existing between their respective citizens and subjects, by placing the communications by post between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty upon a more liberal and advantageous footing, have resolved to conclude a convention for this purpose, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:— The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, George Bancroft, a citizen of the United States, their envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to her Britannic Majesty :—- And her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honorable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a member of her Britanuic Majesty’s most honorable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, Knight Grand Cross of the most honorable Order of the Bath, and her Britannic Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs :—- Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: - Amrotn I. There shall be charged upon all letters not exceeding L°“°" P°“*°$°* half an ounce in weight, conveyed either by United States or by British packets, between a port in the United States and a port in the United _ Kingdom, an uniform sea rate of eight pence, or sixteen cents ; and such ““ m°’ postage shall belong to the country by which the packet conveying the letters is furnished. ARTICLE II. There shall be charged by the Post—Otlice of the United Kingdom, upon all letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in the United Kingdom, and forwarded to the United States, or brought