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 792 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. MAY 14, 1849. rates to which letters will be liable; and as, therefore, it will not be practicable to prescribe such forms and settle such details as will carry the said articles into due effect, it is agreed that further efforts for the adjustment of such forms and details for carrying into operation Articles XIII. and XIV. of the convention of December fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall be postponed until such alterations be made in the rates of postage as will allow of the provisions of the said articles being eifectually carried out according to the true intent and meaning of the same. Present articles Anrxcms XXIV. The present articles, so far as they are not already ?'l*°¤ *° °‘&m° in force, shall come into operation on the first day of July next. m°°p€m °°` Done in duplicate, in the city of Washington, the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. S. R. HOBBIE. H. BOURNE. Approved: J. COLLAMER. GENERAL Posr-Orman, London, May 31, 1849. Having examined and considered the twenty-four additional articles for carrying into execution the postal convention betwen the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which were agreed upon and signed on the fourteenth May instant by Selah R. Hobbie, Esq., on behalf of the Post-Office Department of the United States, and Henry Bourne, Esq., on behalf of this department, the same are by me hereby ratified. In witness whereof, I have caused my seal of office to be hereto [L. s.] affixed, this day and year first above written. CLANRI CARDE, Postmaster- GmeraL