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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN; Disc. 15, 1848. 787 Aivrrcnm XVIII. Printed pamphlets not exceeding the weight of P’l¤*°dP*mPl*• eight ounces, posted in the United Kingdom or in the United States, may lm` beiforwarded from one country to the other, either by British or United States packets, by means of the two offices, at the same ratesand under the same conditions as those fixed for periodical works by Article XVII. Anrictn XIX. In consideration of two cents United States currency Rate of pound not beingprecisely equivalent to one penny sterling, the British Post- ;‘f;:‘1§t:“ °’° Office shall account to the United States Post-Ofiice at the rate of four c ` hundred and eighty-four cents to the pound sterling; and the United States Post-Office shall account to the British Post—Ofiice at the rate of four hundred and eighty cents to the pound sterling. ARTICLE XX. In case of war between the ,two nations, the mail lfroviston asm packets of the two offices shall continue their navigation without impedi-  §,€‘2‘:‘,“ ‘“ ment or molestation until six weeks after a notification shall have been - ° made on the part of either of the two governments, and delivered to the other, that the service is to be discontinued _; in which case they shall be permitted to return freely and under special protection to their respective orts. P Aartotm XXI. The forms in which the accounts between the re- Forms ohcspective Post-Offices for the transmission and conveyance of letters are·°°“"“•&°· to be made out, the time and mode in which payment shall be made by either Post-Office to the other, together with all other measures of detail arising out of the stipulations of the present convention,·shalI be settled between the Post-Office of the United States and the British Post-Ofiice, as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention. . It is also agreed that the measures of detail mentioned in the present Measurssof article may be modified by the two Post-Offices whenever, by mutual 233;},;*gY b° consent, those offices shall have decided that such modification would be beneficial to the Post-Office service of the two countries. ARTICLE XXII. The present convention is concluded for an indefinite Convention for period. It cannot be annulled by either of the two governments, except Wim “m°i after the expiration of a year’s notice given to the other government. 4 Ansrtenm XXIII. The present convention shall be ratified by the wbentobemtp President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of m°d‘ the Senate thereof, and by her Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London within three months from the date hereofi It shall come into operation as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. GEORGE BANCROFT. r.. sg PALMERSTON. L. s. And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on .b0th parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at London, on the 26th day of January last, by George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryof the United States of America at the Court of St. James, and the Right Honorable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, her Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Afihirs, on the part of their respective governments: _ Now, therefore, be it known that I, Janus K. POLK, President of. P¤>¢I¤¤¤¤d· the United States of America, have caused the said convention tolbe made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and arhcle thereof; may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereofi