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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREATBRITAIN. MAR. 20&AP12. 9, 1856. 815 Done in duplicate and signed at London on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and at Washing ton on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three. HORATIO KING, W. L. MABERLY. Approved: JAMES CAMPBELL. CANNING. Settlement of Further Details under the Postal Treaty with Great Britain. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES March go and April 9, 1856. To the Articles agreed upon hetween the Post—O_#ice of the United Eng- $°°P°·¥'»P· 6*1- dom of Great Britain and Deland and the Post-Ogieeqf the United States of America for carrying into Mecution the onvention of December the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight. IN pursuance of the power granted to the two Post—Oihces by Article Ante, p. 787. XXI. of the convention of December the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America, to settle the matters of detail, which are to be arranged by mutual consent, for ensuring the execution of the stipulations contained in the said convention, the undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose by their respective offices, have agreed upon the following articles : -— ARTICLE I. Letters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to the Lamm maybe United States, or posted in the United States addressed to the United registered. Kingdom, and intended to be forwarded between the United Kingdom and the United States, by British or United States packets, may be registered on the application of the persons posting the same, but such registra. No llablllty for tion shall not render the Post-Oflice Departments of the United Kingdom loss. or the United States liable for the loss of such letters or the contents thereof It is understood that this regulation applies equally to letters between the United Kingdom and California or Oregon, whether conveyed via New York, via Boston, or via. Panama. Antrionn II. The conditions under which registered letters shall be conditions or received and delivered, and the forms to be observed in their transmission g;?_;°;°°*gl*; xg? from the place at which they are posted to the officc of exchange, or from mQdi,,{m,_ the office of exchange to the place of their destination, shall be regulated by the rules in force in the two countries respectively. . ARTICLE III. The postage upon registered letters shall invariably be Pogpgggmbg paid in advance, including not only the ordinary postage to the place of P¤'¤P¤1d· their destination, but also any registration fee to which letters of this class may be liable, according to the regulations of the country from which they are sent. Anrronn IV. The Post·Oilice of the United Kingdom shall be at Amount of liberty to Hx the amount of the registration fee to be levied uporrall f;·‘fg&2;’;£;d_ registered letters forwarded from the United Kingdom to the United States; and, in like manner, the Post-Oiiice of the United States shall be at liberty to fix the amount of the registration fee to be levied upon all registered letters forwarded from the United States to the United Kingdom.