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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Dac. 26, 1862, &c. 829 ADDITIONAL ARTICLES To the Articles agreed upon between the Post-gpm q" the United States Dwvmber 26 of America and the .POJ¢·Oj?cc of the nitcd IGngdom of Gym; 13G8s23d M*“`°i* Britain and Leland. IN pursuance of the power granted by Article XXI. of the convention Am, p. rar. of December 15, 1848, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the two Post-Otlices to settle the matters of detail which are to be arranged by mutual consent for insuring the execution of the stipulations contained in the said convention, the undersigned, duly-authorized for that purpose by their respective olhces, have agreed upon the following articles :——— ARTIICLE I. In exception to the stipulations contained in Articles IX. Postage on and XII. of the convention of December 15, 1848, the payment to be ]°**;"° and b°°k made to the Post-Othee of the United Kingdom by the Post-Oiiice of the g.°Q‘;,,?g;°;10,ed United States for the transit through the territory of the United King- mails dom of letters and book packets, (including under the latter designation "f'”°· PP· 7S*r newspapers and printed papers of every kind,) comprised in the closed . mails sent throngh the United Kingdom between the United States and any foreign _ country, whether conveyed between the United States and the United Kingdom by British or by United States packets, shall be at the rate of four pence per ounce, British, of letters, net weight, and at the rate offive pence per pound, British, of book packets, also net weight, and in like manner the payment to be made to the Post»OiHce of the United States by the Post—Office of the United Kingdom for the transit through the territory of the United States of letters and book packets, (including newspapers and printed papers of every kind,) comprised in the closed mails sent through the United States between the United Kingdom and any British colony or foreign country, whether conveyed between the United Kingdom and the United States by United States or by British packets, shall be at the rate of eight cents per ounce, British, of letters, net weight, and at the rate of ten cents per pound, British, of book packets, also net weight. Anrxcnm II. It is understood and agreed that the reduced transit Th¤¤¤ ¤*¤¤ W rates fixed by the preceding article to be paid to the United States Post- “”rl °1°°’ &°’ Office by the British Post-Oiiice shall apply equally to closed mails between the United Kingdom and British Columbia or Vancouver’s island, transmitted via the United States, whether forwarded overland or by way of Panama. ARTICLE III. The present articles shall be considered as additional Th¤¤§d!¤‘Fi°li¤ to those agreed upon between the two offices for carrying into execution t° b° ” m°"”‘ the convention of December 15, 1848, signed at Washington on· the 14th Am, P, 788, of May, 1849, and they shall be carried into elI'ect as soon as the British Post-Oihce has announced to the United States Post-Oliice that the negotiations now pending between the British Post-Otlice and the German Post—OtIices, on the subject of a mutual exchange of closed mails, have been satisfactorily concluded. Done in duplicate and signed in London on the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and in Washington on the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three. sun,. ROWLAND HILL. {sun.} M. BLAIR, Postmaster-General.