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 CONVENTION- NEW ZEALAND. AUG. 28, 001*. 11, 1877. 699 Special arrangamant between the General Post-Ojjices of the United State: Occ. 6, 1876. . ami tloc United Kingdom, jlming rates of Territorial transit-charges on """""" Bnlwh closed mails conveyed across the American continent between Boston or New York and San Francisco. . Whereas Article X of the treaty concerning the formation of a gnu- IPM fw f»¤‘i· oral postal union, signed at Berne October 9, 1874, provides that the WE *’““‘“’ °' territorial transit-charges on the mails conveyed across the United States m of America by the railways between New York and San Francisco shall continue in fo1‘m the object of special arrangements between the post- 0N4u2s concerned; and whereas the territorial transit-rates for the conveyance of correspondence in closed mails through the United States, hxcd by the eleventh article of the postal convention of L24 November, 1868, between tho General P0st·Ofticc of the United States of America and the general postrodico of the United Kingdom of Great. Britain and Ireland, were, by n. notice of one year, terminated on the 24th of August., 1876: The undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respcctive governments, and acting for and in behalf of the General Post.- Odlccs of the United States and of the United Kingdom, respectively, do hereby agree that the territorial trausitrchargcs to be paid by the British post-oliee to the United States Post-Ofdce on the British closed mails conveyed on and cfm the 24th of August, 1876, across the territory of the United States, between Boston or New York and San Francisco, shall be 6 francs per kilpgmmme of letters and 2 francs per kilogrammo of newspapers, other printed matter, and patterns and samples of merchandise; - This agreement shall be tcrminablc at any time on a notice by either Dummu, odica of one year. ` In testimony whereof the undersigned have subscribed their names Siguamm. and ntlixcd their seals hereto, at Washington, in duplicate original, this 6th day of October, 1876. [sux,.] JAS. N. TYNER, Poatmastcr·GcnemL of the United States. EDW’D THORNTON, Her Britannia Majcstyls Minister. Amended article to replace article three of the postal convention between Ang. 28, Oct. 11, the United States of America and the colonial government of New Zealand, 1877- signed af Wellington, August 3, 1870, and at Washington, October 5, 1870. The undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respective A¤¤¤·>¤’i¤y~ governments, have agreed to replace article 3 of the postal convention uf August 3, October 5, 1870, by the following article: Amrcnm 3. No accounts shall be kept between the post: departments of the two Accounts. countries upon the international correspondence, written or printed, exchanged between them, but; each country shall retain to its own use the postage which in collects. '1`bc single rate of international letter postage shall be 12 cents in the Lotwr rum United States and 6 pence in New Zealand on each letter weighing half