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 638 POSTAL CONVENTION—QUEENSLAND. DEC. 8, 1875, AND FEB. 2, 1876. NelY¤p¤l>e1`¤»_et<>·, Newspapers and all other kinds of printed matter, and patterns, and ' each country, respectively, in regard to their liability to be rated with letter postage when containing written matter, or lor any other cause Customs duties-- specified in said laws and regulations, as well as in regard to their liability to customs duty under revenue laws. Anrrorn IV. g]0S.,,i-m,,iit,-M,- The United States office engages to grant the transit through the sit across United United States, as well as the conveyance by United States mail-pacle Swim- cts, of the correspondence in closed mails which the Queensland post oliice may desire to transmit via the United States to British Columbia, the British North American provinces, the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, and at the iollowing rates of United States . transit-postage, viz: Rates by land- For the United States territorial transit of closed mails from Queens- ¤‘<¤¤¤e¤- land for Mexico, British Columbia, Canada, or other British North- American Provinces, when transmitted entirely by landroutes, six cen ts per ounce for 1ettcr·mails and sixteen cents per pound for all kinds of printed matter. Rules by kind For the United States territorial and sea transit of closed mails from ’““1 ““*’* "°“*°“· Queensland for British Columbia or other British North American Provinces, Mexico, Central and South America, or the West India. Islands, when transmitted from the United States by sea, twenty-tive cents per ounce for letter-mails, and twenty cents per pound for all kinds of printed matter. Accounts to nc The Queensland post office shall render an account to the United weight of the letters, and also of the printed and other matter con- ‘ tained in such closed mails, forwarded to the United States for transmission to either of the abovenamed countries and colonies, and the accounts arising between the two offices on this class of correspondence To be settled shall be stated, adjusted, and settled quarterly, and the amounts of the qumefly- United States transitcharges found due on such closed mails shall be promptly paid over by the Queensland post office to the United States post office in such manner as the Postmaster-General of the United States shall prescribe. Anricnn V. Letters from an- Prepaid letters from foreign countries received in and forwarded from eign <=<>¤¤¤¤‘ie¤_¤¤<l the United States to Queensland shall be delivered in said colony free United States addressed to other colonies of Australia will be forwarded to destination subject to the same conditions as are applicable to correspondence originating in Queensland and addressed to those countries Anrronn VI. Registered arti- The two post-departments may, by mutual agreement, provide for me the transmission of registered articles in the mails exchanged between the two countries. Registration fee. The register-fee for each article shall be ten cents in the United States and fourpence in Queensland. Anrronm VII. Details, how set- The two post-departments shall settle by agreement between thorn all tied- measures of detail and arrangement required to carry this convention iunuiacaticn. into execution, and may modify the same in like manner, irom time to time, as the exigencies of the service may require.
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