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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. AUG. 9 & SEPT. 5, 1867 .841 Anrrcnn XIII. Letters forwarded for the purpose of annoying or M¤ii¤i¤us,&c. injuring the parties to whom they are addressed (the postage of which 1°°°°'“‘ both offices are authorized to return to the public even after they have been opened) may be included and admitted with the dead letters mutually returned. Agricnn XIV. Ordinary or registered letters, book packets and pat- Mi¤¤¢¤ll¤*f¢¤¤. {gms of merchandise, misdirected or missent, shall be reciprocally re- &°‘ turned, without delay, through the respective offices of exchange, for the same weight and amount of posge at which they were charged by the despatching office to the other office. 'I`he_ articles of a like nature addressed to persons who have changed their residence shall be mutually forwarded or returned, charged with the rate that would have been paid by the receivers. Anrronr; XV.·Th€ articles agreed upon between the Post-Ofhce of F¤¤‘¤¤f ¤*¤i¤l¤¤ the uma Kingdom or Great Britain and Ireland and the roaomet of {;’,g°;’;§,g*;*{{g;, the United States, on the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred take effect. and forty-nine, for carrying into execution the convention of the fifteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall cease to A”"»P· 788 have effect from the date of the day when the present detailed regulations shall be put into execution. Done in duplicate and signed in London the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in Washington the fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. ALEXANDER W. RANDALL, I" S' Postmaster- General. L- “· Monrnosn.