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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JULY 28, 1868. 849 Convention between the General Post- Ojiee of the Mailed States of America July as, 1868. and the General Post-O__/jiee of the United IGngdam of Great Britain -" and Leland. °Tm¤; general posboffice of the United States of America and the gen- P¤'°¤¤bl°· eral post·office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of establishing and maintaining an exchange of mails between the United States on the one side and the Straits Settlements and the British East Indies on the other, by means conjointly of the line of United States mail packets plying between San Francisco and Hong Kong and of the line of British mail packets plying between Hong Kong and Singapore, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Aden, the undersigned duly authorized for that purpose have agreed upon the following articles: Aivricne I. There shall be a direct exchange of mails between the of- Exchange of tlces of New York and San Francisco on the one part, and the offices of mms? Singapore, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Aden, on the other, compris- to include ing letters, newspapers, prices current, book packets, and packets of pat- wh“*i terns or samples originating in the United States and addressed respectively to the Straits Settlements, or to the British East Indies, or originating in the British East Indies or the Straits Settlements, respectively, and addressed to the United States. · These mails shall be conveyed by United States mail packets between how con- San Francisco and Hong Kong via Yokohama, and by British mail pack- v°y°d‘ ets between Hong Kong and Singapore or the Indian ports. Anrromz II. 'I`he postage to be collected in the United States, upon Rates etppstpaid correspondence addressed to the Straits Settlements or the British :§‘g;;‘;"°‘$h* East Indies, shall be ten cents per single letter not exceeding half an ` ounce in weight, heavier letters being charged in proportion, two cents each 0n_ newspapers or prices current, and eight cents per four ounces on book packets,-or packets of patterns or samples; and the postage to be collected in the Straits Settlements or the British East Indies, upon paid correspondence addressed to the United States, shall be ten pence per single letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, heavier letters being charged in proportion, and four pence per four ounces for newspapers, prices current, book packets or packets of patterns or samples. The correspondence thus paid shall be delivered at the place of desti- Delivery or nation, whether in the United States or in the British Possessions, free ggg:sp°°d` from all charge whatsoever. _ Letters posted in either country unpaid or insufficiently paid shall, nev- m;l”P““l 1** ertheless, be forwarded and shall be charged at the place of destination ' with a rate of postage of the same amount that would be chargeable on a letter of like weight, posted for despatch in the opposite direction, together with a fine of six pence in the Straits Settlements or the British East Indies, or of twelve cents in the United States. ARTICLE III. The exchange of the correspondence referred to in Ar- kc§"°l;sf°: *° ticle II., preceding, shall not give rise to any accounts between the British P P g ° and the United States post-offices. Each office shall keep the postage which it collects. Amicnn IV. Every letter, newspaper, price current, book packet or Letters, Gm. packet of patterns or samples, despatched from one office to the other, h°“’ P“‘d' shall be plainly stamped in red ink with a stamp bearing the words " paid all" on the right-hand upper corner of the address, and shall also bear the dated stamp of the office at which it was posted; vox,. xvi. ’I`nEAr.—54