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 NaaaeamaaeFs. 1. A peelsl treaty has bsea entered into between 1reat Nsttsin and ths United States. placing the rsaspkifsnee between Ihe two countries the maiI paekeis ofeseh goveFnaena, and the postage ehaf- 1 Ees upan an eQaai aud FeeiProeai soosIRS.
 st. AssssFs ,cssea e charged in the United States will be rated ai half 10 the single letter. over half saA not exceeding ss ounce as double letter over sa osnee and not exceeding aa ounce and hAif as treble letter. Aed on sach haif onnce or ffae,ilaai excess constituting rate. ID England the hal ounce limits the zagle letter, the full ounce the doabse letter, but on letters exceeding the fu ounce. and not exceeding two onuees four rates are eharse also, on letters exceeding two ounces, and not exceeding three ounces. six rates are eharsedi that is tSo Taes are iaposed Tor each excess oyer an ounce.
 III. 7hs single rate to be charged on each letter posted i'd the United states, and addressed to any place in Great Britain os Ireland is 2t cents, the double rate is cents. the triple rate 71 cents, sad 90 o, according to the United states scale Of pro- Sresslon ia weight-Ssee No. 2
 " Like single, doabIr, tfiple, &e., rates will he collected on each letter according to its weight. ,yehis posted in Great Britain CT Ireland without hcing prepaid. aad il received at any ctiee in the United States for delivery
 V. Sad postage on letters goIng to any place ia Great BFitAia or Ireland may be prepaid, if the whole aIa0.t is enAeTed al the ofce in the United staies, where mailed, al the optIon of the sender.
 VI. Newspapers may be msiicd at any Otice in inc united States, 10 say place in the United ktng dom on the prepayment of ? cents, and may. on re- espt from any place ia Great Britain or Ireland, be delivered al any oi6 ia the United States, on pay mfnt of eeHts. Note.-Each government Is to charge cents on each newspaper. These are to be sent in bands, eove, open al the sides or ends, and to contain 10 manuscript whatever
 VII, On each pamphlet to be sent to any ptace ia the United Kisgdom. snd on each pamphlet, re- place and charged and eoiIccie5 in the second eae cent for each ounce in weight or fractional excess of aa ounee. Thess gre 10 be seat in hsads oS covers open al the ends sIdes, SO as readily to be sxanlsed, sn io contain mAnnseIipt what ever.
 VIII. On let,<ss addressed to ary riaceIn British North America, not 10 be conveyed by sea, there saaH be charged postage equal 10 the United Stsiss postage and the pfcvines postage eonblned5 nus as this department Is nctsrt Ihiorne'i of the British province rstes t< Cnitod States postage ta the lines will he enAsget. and prepayment thereof required. until the deais are sseerasned and set. tled as required by the 2tst article of inc treaty United States postage on newspapers to Canada and other British provinces Is to be prepaid.
 K. On leifsEs to be acai to any for eiga country er British possessioh, and mailed for that purpose to any post -offics in the sland of Great Briiain hefe must be prepaid, if sent by British packet. 5eeats tbe singieIae, and if by Americsn packet fi eents--to De doubled. tipied. &c. according to
 x. ca letters received from foreign countries or English possessions. through the Loadon or any othtr postcfee in Great Brisan 10 be delivered in the United States the foreign abd British postage Is D be prepaid, and what remains to be collected on deliveFy here in such eases is simply the United States postaye cents. single. brought by Bri- fisa packet; 7t cents 1T brought by an American r1eks % cents if such letters are delivered at San Francisco Astoria, or any ether place in the territory al the Unated States on the Pacific, when brought 10 an Atlantic port by British ateamship and five cents if brought by an American steamship.
 Nt Ou British or foreign letters received in the United States to be forwarded to the West Indies by Anercsn packets. or any place on the Gulf of Mex ico, 10 Chagfss or Panama, in the United States mails, the single postage charge will be (ss the British postage and the postage arisax in its transit to Great Britain must be psepaid) l2i cents If to Havana, 20 cents if to any other place in the Wes, Indies the Cali of Mexico or 10 Chargre<: 30 cents. fl to Psnama, with l6 cents added If brought 'o the United States from Great Britain in sa Amer- can packet.
 XII. Care is 10 be taken 70 see that ali American postage on letters from Havana. from other places in tha Gulf of Mexico, fFcm on. :ee6e possessioas and from the British North American provinces is paid tn the United States before the sane ls des. patched by mail 10 Great Britain.
 XIII. Newspapers fer countries beyond Great Britain may oe sent on the prepayment oftwa eeats each--atso pamphlets as stipulated under No 5-apd newspapers and pamphlets received from counties beyond Great BritaiL are 10 be delivered on payment uf the two eents for each newsoarer ana one cent per ounce sn weight of each pamphlet
 XIV. Postmasters cautioned to write on their post bills opposite each entry Of foreign letter, newspaper. or pamphlet. posted by them respective y. the wOsd "foreign"-the better to enable the l pOs'msstes Of New Ycrk and Boston, and any ] oiheFs that may be designated, 10 make separate quasterly report of the amount of foreign postage
 XIV. The Postmasters of Boston and New York ! viii be specially instructed as 10 the closed mails | contemplated by the treaty, the mode Of keeping | heir accounts of foreign postage, and of mailing md acknowledging reeeiP, of foreign matter.
 CAVE JOHNSON,
 Postmaster General.
 PosroFFicE DEPARTMENT, Jan. 6, IsI9