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 640 ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN. FEB. 8, 1876. Fcb- 8, 1876- Additional agreement between the United State.; ofAmcr’£0a and the Empire Q/`Japan, modyying the provisions of the Postal Convention of the (Sth Al,m’IZ6_187g, am; August, 1873, and also 0] the agreement of Apml 26th, 1875, between the pp. sm, has two coumtmes. ti£f;`;‘;‘5Qi€§5‘V°“‘ The undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respective ` governments, have agreed to modify the provisions of the postal convention between the United States and Japan, concluded the Gab day of August, A. D. 1873, or the 6th day of the eighth month of the sixth year of Meiji, and of the agreeinent between the United States and Japan, signed at Washington the 26th day of April, A. D. 1875, as follows: L¤M·<=r·- postage lst. It is agreed that the second paragraph of Article III of the said "““'°°*‘· convention be so moditied that the single rate of international letterpostage shall be reduced to Eve cents in the United States and live sen in Japan on each letter weighing fifteen grammes (one-half ounce) or less, and an additional rate of five cents or five sen for each additional weight of iiftcen grammes (onehalf ounce) or fraction thereof. N°“`**P¤P°*‘» °t°·· Also, that the agreement between the United States and Japan, signed P°“t"g° "‘1“°°d‘ at Washington the 26th (lay of April, A. D. 1875, relative to the international postage on newspapers and other printed matter, patterns, and samples of merchandise exchanged between the two cohutries be so modihed that the postage to be levied, collected, and retained by the post-ofiice of the country of origin shall be reduced to two cents in the United States and two sen in Japan on each newspaper not exceeding . ibur ounces in weight, and two cents or sen for each weight of two ounces or fralction caf tw? buucgs 03 all other articles of printed matter, patterns, an samp es 0merc an ise. 0<>¤dii·i¤¤¤ cx- 2d. It is inrther agreed, in view of the met that the Japanese govt1f" ‘}°‘}) gg °"‘ ernment is about to establish a postal agency at Shanghai, China, that §u?’?fé2°:,0§_ wg` the same rates of postage and conditions of exchange shall be applied to correspondence of every kind originating in said Japanese postal agency, and dispatched through the exchange office of Yokohama. to the United States, or to foreign countries via the United States, as are applied to the correspondence similarly addressed, originating in the Empire of Japan. Exchanges be- 3d. It is fur-ther agreed that the respective Japanese post-offices of tW*’°¤ ·]°1”¤¤°**° Yokohama, Hiogo, and Nagasaki may exchange correspondence by £{£°;Ec'};$ Sl"“’g' means of American or Japanese mail-packets with the Japanese postal. ` aweuc at Shanghai. Ihistage rcduceg °Aug it is alsodagreed that the séngle rate ofl lettenpostagg to like lev- 0*1 ‘*·W¤‘*{ to ¤¤_ ied and collecte at the nitec tates posta agency at ang ai on £"0‘;];;s *1"‘“=‘¥h‘“ letters addressed to Japan shall be five instead of six cents as stipuglated in Article V of the postal convention between the two countries, and in like manner, a reduced single letter-rate of five sen shall be levied and collected in Japan on letters for Shanghahwhcn dispatched in the mails to the United States postal agency at that port. Duration of con- 4th. It is also hereby agreed that the provisions of Article V of the V¢¤¤i¤¤- postal convention of August 6, 1873, as herein modified, shall continue in force until the 31st of December, 1876, the date of expiration of the existing contract between the United States and the Pacific Mail Steam- ‘ ship Company for the mail-service between Yokohama and Shanghai, touching at the ports of Hiogo and Nagasaki, and that on and after After -T=m¤¤ry 1, January 1, 1877, its provisions shall apply only to such mails, if any, as Yokohama and the United States postal agency at Shanghai by means
 * 877- shall after that date be exchanged between the Japanese p0st—0t1iee at