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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Nov. 7 & 24, 1868.855 Done in duplicate and signed in London the seventh day of November, and at Vilasliington the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. [L. s.] MONTROSE, Postmaster- General of the United IGngdom. [L. s.] ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster- General of the United States. I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony thereof} I have caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WILLIAM H. Snwnnn, Secretary of State. Wssumecrow, November 24, 1868. DETAILED REGULATIONS Arranged between the General Post- Office of the United States of America N0"- 7 & 2% and the General Post- Office of the United 1'Gngdom of Great Britain 1g6g' and Leland, for the Execution of the Oonvention of the twenty-fourth Dag of1V0vember, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Anrrcnn I. Each office shall send mails by well·appointed steamships Each omoe to of approved speed, sailing on stated days between Liverpool and New ::Qt‘:;“§;1°·°,? York, or Boston and New York, or Boston and Liverpool via Queens- mm,m,l:’&; town; and also between Southampton and New York, and New York and Southampton, as often as such steamships shall be despatched; Provided that the mails so sent shall not be delayed by such mode of despatch, Proviso. and provided that the cost of transit can be arranged by each office in accordance with the rates which that office may think it right to pay for the conveyance of mail matter. If it be shown by either office that the sending of any portion of the international letters to any designated port causes a delay to such letters, it is agreed that the other office shall cease to send such letters to said port unless when letters are specially addressed to be so sent. Anrronn II. Accommodation for the sortation of letters on board Sorting of let— shall be provided by the despatching ohlce when desired by the office to gg;,;? S°""’g which the mails are sent; the two offices to determine, by mutual consent, whether sorting officers, if employed, shall belong to the British or to the United States Post-Oilices, or partly to the one and partly to the other; the salaries of the sorting officers to be paid by that office to which the officers shall belong. _ ARTICLE III. The following shall be the regulations for the exchange °xE;€‘.B;_:"g?“f" of mails between the British and the United States Post-Ollie8S:- mails, 1. The office of London shall exchange mails with the offices of Bos- London. ton, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco. _ 2. The office of Liverpool shall exchange mails with the offices of L"°"P°°l· Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San Francisco. 3- The office of Southampton shall exchange mails with the of thees of S°“*h*“¤P*°“· Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. _ 4. The office of Dublin shall exchange mails with the offices of D“bh“· Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Detroit, Chicago, and San ranczsco.