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 808 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. DEC. 3 & 27, 1852., sum of one shilling, or twenty-four cents, and so on in proportion according to the scale of postage now established in the United Kingdom. Hates of post- ARTICLE VI. For every newspaper despatched from New York, p°Pm` Kingston, and addressed to one of the foreign ports at which the British mail packets in the West Indies touch, the United States Post-Ofiice shall account to the British Post-Office for the sum of two pence, or four cents. Letter bills. Anrrcnn VII. Every mail despatched from New York, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, or San Francisco to St. Thomas or Kingston shall be accompanied by a letter bill. The office to which the mail is addressed shall return by the next post an acknowledgment of receipt to the office from which it was transmitted. The letter bills and acknowledgments of receipt shall be made out See r· 809- according to the forms (A and B) agreed upon and annexed to the present articles. _B1ank letter Artricma VIII. If it should happen, at the usual period for making bn1S' up the mails, that there should not be any letter or other correspondence from either of the offices of exchange, a blank letter bill shall, never~ theless, be forwarded to the corresponding office. Vouchers. Anricnn IX. The letter bills and acknowledgments of receipt shall serve as vouchers to the quarterly account. If, in checking the mails transmitted to the respective offices of exchange, the amount of postage shall be found to differ from that entered in the letter bill by the despatching office, such amount shall be checked by two officers, and the corrected amount, which is entered by them on the verification side of the letter bill, shall be accepted as the true amount. Accounts. Anrronn X. The amount due to the British office for the correspondence transmitted under the regulations now agreed upon shall be placed to the credit of the United Kingdom in the general account between the Post-Office of the United Kingdom and the Post-Oflice of the United States prepared quarterly in the General Post—OfIice, London. when these Anrrcnn XI. The present articles shall be considered as additional to
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convention of December fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and forty- Ahze, p. 788. eight, signed at Washington the fourteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington on the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and at London on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- two. I§IVORATIO KING. . L. MABERLY. Approved: S. D. Humznma. Approved: Hnnnwicxn.