Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03

and California excepted) and any point in
Great Britain, and Uics versa, is twenty-four
cents
United States inland.
Atlantic sea postage .-..-..-...---.-.....-l6
British inland.
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Up to the 1st of July, 1851, when the act
of the preceding Sd of March went into oper
alton, this gave the British correspondence
the advantage of United States inland rate
of FIVE cents as well over as under the dis
tance of three hundred miles, Oregon and
California excepted } whereas our domestic
letters sent over three hundred miles were
charged with ten cents.
Letters TO and from Great Britain, for or
from Oregon and California, were subject to
the United States inland charge of forty
cents, instead of five cents-forty cents being
then the single rate of postage on our domes-
tic correspondence between the Atlantic
States and Oregon and California
When the letters are conveyed across the
Atlantic by the United States packet the
sea postage belongs to the United States
and when by British packet, it accrues to the
benefit of Great Britain.
The United States engage to grant to Great
-BSeain the transit in closed mails through
<he United States, to and from the British
North American provinces, of the correspon-
hence, at two of the inland rates the ounce,
v-lfh the addition of twenty-five per cent,
. a .to compensate the loss that would other
wise be sustained by this mode OF eomputa-
ton" Thus the rate per ounce received by
the United States for the conveyance of this
correspondence has always been, and still is,
under this treaty. twelve-and-a-half cents.
There is a similar provision (thus far USE
less) giving to the United States the right to
send closed mails through any of the British
North American provinces.
The United States further engage to grant
to the United Kingdom the transit in closed
mails through the United States, or through
any country where the post communication
NAV be under the control or management of
the United States, of letters and newspapers
forwarded from the United Kingdom, its CO.
lonies Or possessions, to any other British
colony OF possessions, or TO any foreign ooan-
try, and v5ce versq, at two of the inland rates
for letters, with twenty-five per cent addi-
ton, as above Transit rate on each newspa-
per, two cents
There is a similar provision giving to the
United States the right to send closed mails
through the United Kingdom, or through any
country where the post communication may
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United Kingdom, to any other colony or pos
session of the United States, or any foreign
country, France excepted and Uice UerSa-
two rates to the ounce, with twenty-five per
cent. additional on letters, and two cents
on each newspaper, being the transit charge
as above
Under this article closed mails are dispatch
ed to and from Prussia, through England, at
a charge Of seventeen and half cents the
ounce Gncluding the twenty-five per cent ad-
dition) on letters, and two cents each on
newspapers. This pays for transportation
through England and across the channel be-
tween England and 0stend. Letters to for
eign countries other than Great Britain are to
be delivered to the British Post Office free o
all United State postage, whether packet o.
inland, and to countries to which the letter
cannot be forwarded unless the British post
age is also prepaid, the United States is to col
lect and account for this postage to the British
office. Thus the United States office has t
collect and allow commission to its agents OF
avery considerable amount OF British postage
and in settlement, if the balance is agains
the United States, as it has hitherto been,
is decided that the United State is to lose an,
difference IN the exchange necessary to plac
this balance in the possession of the Britisl
Office at home. This however, works. O
course both ways.
There is a similar provision requiring tn
British Office to collect and pay over Unite
States postage on letters from the Unite
Kingdom through the United States to coun
tries to which letters cannot be forwarded un
less the United States postage is prepaid, bu
there IS, of course, very little correspondent
of this kind. Some few letters to the We:
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vana. and via Savannah to and from the Bs
hamas, are all that have yet been forwarded
except a small mail to and from San Franci:
co. in respect to which this provision has ais
been made to apply.
Article twelfth provides that the rate
postage to be taken by the British office upo
letters arriving in the United Kingdom frol
the United States, either by British or
American packets, and TO be forwarde
through the United Kingdom to colonies
possessions of the United Kingdom, or of Il
United States, or to foreign countries, and N
rsrsq. shall be the same as the rate taken,
which may hereafter be taken, by the Britt
Postofice upon letters TO or from such col
nies or possessions or foreign countries respe
lively, when posted at the port of arrival,
delivered at the port of departure, of 6
packet conveying the mails between the UI
ted Kingdom and the United States.
The above postage is irrespective of al
beyond the inland rate to be taken in {
United States upon such letters if posted
delivered therein according to the stipulatio
of article second, and also irrespective of al
beyond the sea rate upon such letters payat
according to the stipulatiors of article first.
A similar privilege is secured to the Vi
ted Kingdom in respect to letters arriving
the United States from the United Kingdc
to be forwarded through the United States
the colonies or possessions of the Unit
States or Of the United Kingdom, or of the
territories, which, according to the laws
the United States, are beyond the limits
their established post-routes, or to forei
countries, and Uice versa. 1t is under I
clause that from July l, 1851, the Uni
Stat IS rate Of inland postage on letters
tween Oregon and California either, and Gr
Britain has reduced from forty cents to
cents the single letter, the rate on the clio
mails between California and Great Brit
via Panama 10y the British conveyance
tween England and Panama. from sever
five to fifty cents the ounce, and the rate
the West India closed mails to and from E
land via New York from thirty-one an
quarter cents to twenty-five cents the oul