Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-08
OFFICIAL.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE U. STATES
AND THE WEST COAST OF s. AMERICA.

4 fOSIAL ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE ". STATES
i AND THE WEST COAST OF s. AMERICA
additional Articles 10 he articles agreed uDou BE-
treen he Post OSfes Of The United Kngdon OF Great
britain and Ireland and The Post once IF The United States
Of America for carrying into execution the CoGpsatioa Of
December Is, l6i8.
In pursuance of the power granted by article 81 Of the
Convention of December IT, 1888, between the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United
States of America the two Post Offices to settle the
matters OF detail which to be arranged by mutual
consent for insurng the execution Of the stpuations
contained in the said Convention, the Undersigned duly
authorized for that purpose by their respective Offices,
have agreed upon the following articles:
Art l. An exchange Of mails shall hereafter take place
between the following Offices, viz:
l. Between the post Office of New York and TIE British
packet Office at Panama
Between the post Office Of Charleston and the British
packet oftce at Panama.
Between the post Office of Savannah and the British
packet Office at Panama.
Between the post Office of New Orleans and the Bri-
fish packet Office at Panama.
Between the post Office Of San Francisco and the Br
fish packet Office at Panama
The transmission of these mails between the several
ports above mentioned and Panama win be provided for
by the United States Government
Art H. The mails forwarded from New York Charles.
ton, Savannah New Orleans and San Francisco to Pa
mama shall comprise the correspondence for all the for
egn ports on the western coast Of South America which
Art H. Reciprocay the mails forwarded from Pana-
ma to New York, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans
and Gan Francisco shall comprise the correspondence
the United States from all the foreign ports the western
coast Of South America at which the British mail packets
in the Pacific touch
Art. ~ Upon every letter not exceeding half
in weight, despatched from New York Charleston Sayan
nah, New Orleans, San Francisco to Panama. and ad
dressed to the several States the western of South
America ut the ports of which the British mail packets
touch the United States Post Office shall the
British Post Office for the following rates of postage viz
l. Upon letter for Buenaventura, in New Grenada,
4d or cents $50 long the existing postal convention
between Great Britain and New Grenada shall continue
in force
2 Upon letter for any port the Republic of Peru,
3d. or II cents, $50 long the existing postal
ton between Great Britain and Peru shall continue in
force.)
g. Upon letter for any other port on the western coast
OF South America excepting those above mentioned ls
or 24cents
And these rates postage shall increase in proportion
for heavier letters according the scale of postage now
established in the United Kingdom
Art V. For every newspaper despatched from New
York. Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans San Fran
cisco to Panama, and addressed any Of the States
the western of South America the ports of which
the British mail packets touch the United States Post
Office shall account to the British Post Office for the
Of two pence, or four cents
Art VI. Every mail despatched from New York. Char
lesion, Savannah New Orleans San Francisco to Pa
mama shall be accompanied by letter-bl.
The Office to which the mail is addressed shall return
by the next post acknowledgment of receipt the
office from which it transmitted.
The erbil and Acknowledgements of receipt shall
be made out according the forms Ca and 81 agreed
upon and annexed to the present articles.
ART. VII. If it should happen the usual period for
making UP the mails there should not be any letter
other correspondence from either Of the Offices of
change, blank etterbl SHALL nevertheless besorward
ed to the corresponding Office.
ART. VIII The letter-bills and Acknowledgements Of
receipt shall serve vouchers to the quarterly account
If, in checking the mails transmitted to the packet
Office at Panama. the amount Of postage shall be found
differ from that entered in the letterb by the despatch
ing oce such shall be checked by officers,
and the corrected amount which is entered by them
the verifcaton side of the letterb shall be accepted
the true amount
correspondence transmitted under the regulations
agreed upon shall be placed to the credit Of the United
Kingdom in the general account between the Post Office
of the United Kingdom and the Post Office of the United
States prepared quarterly in the General Post Office
London.
Arr " The present articles she'll be considered as adj
dtonal to those agreed between the two Offices for
carrying into execution the convention of 18th December
lS4s, signed OF Washington the I4th May, 1870 and
shall come into operation the first day of October
thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Done in duplicate and signed OF Washington on the
tenth day of August and London the seventh day
of September, thousand eight hundred and fifty
HORATI0 KING.
J. TILLEY.
Approved: JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster General.
CAUSING
Adding the United States postage the British packet
postage agreed upon in the above articles w. and "
respectively, the rates follows.s
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