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 960 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH HAMBURG. AUGUST 23, 1860. turned letters, and the official communications of the respective Post Departments of the United States and Hamburg, free of charge. Sailing <l¤Y¤ ARTICLE IX. The sailing days of the steamers carrying the mail be- °f m°‘m°"‘ tween New York and Hamburg under this arrangement shall be so arranged as not to conflict with the schedule days of sailing of the United States` mail steamers plying between New York and Bremen, and between New York and Havre; and also of the Bremen mail steamships plying between New York and Bremen ; and shall as near as practicable, alternate at regular intervals with the days of sailing of the steamers conveying the mail to and from Bremen and Havre. When this con- Aarronm X. This arrangement is to go into eifect on the first day of za-QZ? °“k°° July, 1857, and is to be continued in force until annulled by mutual consent, or by either Post Department, after the expiration of three m0nths’ previous notice to the other; and it may cease whenever all the direct steamers between New York and Hamburgcease running. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington on the twelfth day of June, and at New York on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. HORATIO KING. FERDINAND KARCK, A Commissioner for the Hanscatic Republic of Ihmburg. · proved : IAARON V. BROWN, P. M G. [Z SC This convention is ratified with the advice and consent of the Senate of Hamburg. C. H. MERCK, LL. D., Member of the Senate and President of the Post- Ojicc Dqmrtment. Humane, August 7 th, 1857. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE A¤g¤¤t 28. 1860- Agreed upon between the Post- Office Department of the United States and the Post-Ojicc D artmerzt of the Hanseatic Republic of Hamburg, modifying Article  of the Postal Oonvention of June 12, 1857. RMS of P¤¤t· Tum international correspondence, conveyed either by the United ag°' States or by Hamburg steamers, between the United States or its Territories and Hamburg, will be hereafter subject to the following postage charges, viz. : —- Postage on each letter or packet not exceeding half an ounce in weight .. . . . 10 cents. Above half an ounce, and not over one ounce. . . . 20 " Above one ounce, but not exceeding one ounce and a half . 30 " Above one ounce and a half, but not exceeding two ounces. 40 “ I¤¤r¤¤¤•=d ¤1t¤¤· And the postage will increase in this scale of progression, to wit: Addi— tional ten cents for each additional half-ounce, or fraction of half-ounce. 0PE;‘;l;·7zg“* Payment in advance shall be optional in either country. It shall not ’however, be permitted to pay less than the whole rate; and no account shall be taken of the prepayment of any fraction sr that rate. This additional article takes the place of Article second of the postal corpvention of the 12th of June, 1857, which in all other respects remains m orce.