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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM. Decnmsnn 21, 1859. 905 two Post Office Departments are mutually to furnish each other with lists Lists tv be stating the foreign countries to which the foreign postage, and the amount f“'"lSh"d‘ thereof must he absolutely prepaid, or must be left unpaid, either to their destination or to a determined point. And until such lists are duly furnished, neither country is to mail to the other any letter from foreign countries beyond it, or for foreign countries beyond the country to which the mail is sent. Anrronn XXVI. The provisions established by Articles XII., XV., XVI., XVI I., XVIII., XIX., XX., and XXI., as well as the last paragraph of Article XIV., so far as they are applicable, shall be made to apply to the correspondence which may be exchanged by any direct line of steamers running between the United States and Belgium., Anrxcms XXVII; The Post Office Departments of Belgium and of Post·emeedethe United States shall have full authority to introduce and put in force P“"“;‘?"t“ °I°“°h by common agreement all modifications in the arrangements of the present ;?;ii;3.yti?g, convention, both in regard to the proportion of postages to be levied on ¤ef€€¤¤¤¤¤¤· each side, and relative to all other measures of detail and execution, Post, p. 918. whenever, by mutual consent, the two governments shall have recognized the utility of such modifications. ARTICLE XXVIII. The present convention shall be put in execution Convention, in the two countries one month after the exchange of ratitications, pro— Wl¤*=¤ *0 l>¤i¤ vided that the expenses of transportation over the British territory and f°”°°' across the British channel shall not exceed four cents per single letter, P'°Vi¤°· and that this postage shall be the only transit postage to be paid by the contracting parties, under the head of correspondence exchanged in closed mails, by way of England, between Belgium and the United States of America, by the terms of the said convention. This convention shall re— How lqngto main in force until annulled by mutual consent, or by one of the con- °°°*”‘“°’°*°’°°· tracting parties after one year’s notice given by such party to the other of the intention to annul the same. Made in duplicate original, and signed at Washington, the twenty-first Signed, day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred D¤<>·21.1859· and fifty-nine. J. HOLT. [snr. BLONDEEL VAN CUELENBROECK. [SEAL.} And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratitications of the same were exchanged at Washing— raggiggzegllgg of ton, on the 19th instant by Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the United 0% 19, 1g60_ States, and Mr. Blondeel Van Cuelenbroeck, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, on the part of ttheir respective governments. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President Proclaimsd. of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be O°t°b‘”` 20*1860 made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aliixed. Done at Washington, this twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-fifth. JAMES BUCHANAN. By the President: Lnwrs Cass, Secretary of State.