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 560 OONVENTION—EMPIB.E OF JAPAN. AUG. 6, 1873. back to Japan by passing mail-steamers on the high seas, shall be paid in full at ten sen per single rate, with Japanese postage-stamps. , . Aarronn X. n sea-postage on The sea-postage for the conveyance across the Pacino Ocean of cor- P*’·°*¤° 0°°¤¤· respondence in open or closed mails, exchanged under the provisions of 'this convention, shall be computed at six cents per ounce or six sen per thirty grammes (net weight) on letter-mails, and six cents per pound or six sen per four hundred and eighty grammes (net weight) on other correspondence. Aucrronn XI. Letter-bills. Letter·bills shall accompany each mail from one country to the other, containing an account of the weight of each class of correspondence, both international and transit; and the accounts arising between the Accounts. two offices on the different classes of transit correspondence shall be stated, adjusted, and settled quarterly, and the balance round due on such correspondence shall be promptly paid over by the debtor office to the creditor office in such manner as the creditor office may desire. Anarronn XII. l_EX1*_·={¤¤¢@¤ of }}<}· So long as the Government of the United States shall maintain, at its· §‘;"‘°GQI};§ own expense, the existing line of semi-monthly maitsteamers between Sqatcs ,,,,,,1 _;,, ,,,,,,_ San Francisco and Yokohama, it is mutually agreed that the Govern- 1 ment of Japan shall defray the entire expenses of the sea transportation of all correspondence which shall be transmitted in either direction by any other line of mail-steamers plying between the sea-ports of the two countries. ‘ Anrronn XIII. C 1 o sed-m an When in any port of either country a closed mail is transferred from transfers without one vessel to another, without any expense to the office of the country °h”·’g°· where the transfer is made, such transfer shall not be subject to any postal charge by one office against the other. Aizrromi XIV. Omni,) po, ,, ,,1 Oflioial communication s, addressed by the United States Post—Office to correspondence. the Japanese Post-Office, or by the Japanese Post-Otlice to the United States Post-Oiiice, shall not give rise to any account between the two offices. Anrrorn XV. V Omcial dip], The official correspondence between each government and its legation matic correspond- near the other shall be conveyed to its destination free of postage, and ence. with all the precaution which the two Governments may find necessary for its inviolability and security. l Aarronn XVI. Registered em. The two Post Departments may, by mutual agreement, provide for the ¤1¤¤· transmission of registered articles in the mails exchanged between the two countries. '