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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM. MARCH 1, 1870. 951 Additional Gonvention to the Oonvention for the Regulation of the Postal March 1, 1870. Intercourse between the Lhzited States of America and Belgium, signed Ante, p. 928. at Brussels the twentgfrst dag of August, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. An additional Convention between the General Post- Office of the United States of America and the General Post-Office af the United Engdonz of Great Britain and Ireland having established a reduced ·A"*¤P· 86* charge ¢y"six cents per ounce, or per thirtg grammes, for the sea conveyance across the Atlantic of letters sent in closed mails through the [hzited [Gregdom, the undersigned, dulg authorized by their respective governments, have agreed upon the following articles: — ARTICLE I. The single rate of postage on the direct correspondence Bates of postexchanged between the United States and Belgium shall be as follows: ‘!°· 1. On prepaid letters from the United States, ten cents. 2. On prepaid letters from Belgium, fifty centimes. And, for the sea conveyance of letters, in closed mails, across the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the United States office shall receive six cents per ounce, or per thirty grammes. ARTICLE II. The conditions of Articles V. and XIV. of the convention Repeal or forbetween the United States and Belgium, signed in Brussels the twenty- mer 9-F¤i¤l¤¤· first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, so far as they are contrary to the preceding article, me repealed. ARTICLE III. The present convention, which shall be considered as _T1nseonveuadditional to the convention of the twenty-first day of August, one thou- gmglzygox sand eight hundred and sixty-seven, shall come into operation on the on ‘ fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Done in duplicate, and signed in Washington this first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. {SEAL.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster- General of the United States. [sE.¤.1..] MAURICE DELFOSSE. I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be atlixed. {SEAL.] U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hnmmou Frsu, Secretary of State. Wasmucrou, March 1, 1870.