The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-06
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at The Second Session Of the
Fortieh Congress.

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Fortisth Congress.
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Postal Convention between the Unit
ed States Of America and the Colo
NAL Government Of Hong Kong,
China.
Articles Of agreement between the
Post Office Department of the
United States and the General Post
Office at Hong Kong, for the pur-
pose of establishing aud regulating
the interchange Of mails between
The United States and Hong Kong
and dependent Chinese ports. BY
means Of the direct line Of United
States mail packets plying between
San Francisco and Hong Kong, UtG
Yokohama In Japan, il is agreed
between the Post Office Depart
ment of the United States and the
Post Office Department Of Hong
Kong:
ARTICLE l.
The post Offices Of New York and
San Francisco shall be the United
States Offices of exchange, and the
General Post Office at Hong Kong
the office of exchange of the colony
Of Hong Kong for all mails transmit
ted under this arrangement.
ARTICLE II.
There shall be an exchange of cor
respondence between the United
States Of America and the colony Of
Hong Kong, by means Of United
States mail packets, plying between
San Francisco and Hong Kong, com
prising letters, newspapers, and prices
current originating and posted 10 the
United States, and addressed to and
deliverable in Hong Kong aud those
Chinese ports with which the Hong
Kong post Office has postal relations,
including the ports of Canton, Annoy,
Swallow, aud FoOchOw, and, vice
versa, of correspondence originating
and posted in Hong Kong and the
Chinese pcrts above designated, and
addressed to and deliverable 10 the
United states.
ARTICLE III.
The postage to be levied and col
lected at the office Of mailing ia the
United States. upon letters, news
papers. and prices current, destined
for Hong Kong, and the above desig-
mated Chinese ports, with which Hong
Kong has postal connections, shall
be ten cents per single rate Of half
an ounce or under on Letters, and
two cents each on newspapers and
prices current; and the postage to be
levied and collected at Hong Kong
aud dependent Chinese ports, on cor
respOndence originating in those
ports and destined to the United
States, shall be eight cents per single
rate Of half an ounce or under on
letters, and two cents or each news
paper or price current. No postal
accounts shall be kepg between the
respective postal departments upon
the correspondence exchanged be-
tween them under this arrangement,
but each department shall deliver
the correspondence which it receives
from the other free of all postage
charge, that is to say, the Hong Kong
post department agrees to deliver
without charge all letters, news
papers, and prices current, brought
by the United States mail packets,
addressed to Hong Kong, and, also,
to forward without charge all such
letters, newspapers, DC, as are adj
dressed to the Chinese ports above
named. south Of Shanghai; and the
United States postal department, on
its side, agrees to deliver without
charge all letters, newspapers, &C.,
originating 10 Hong Kong, or
the ports mentioned, and for
warded by said packets adj
dressed to, and deliverable In,
the United States. All letters, news
papers, &C., dispatched by either
Office to the other, under this arrange
meut, shall be plainly sta mped with
the words =" paid all" in red ink, on
the right hand upper Orner of the
face Of the address, and shall also
bear the stamp Of the mailing ex-
change office on their face, and that
of the receiving exchange Office on
their back.
ARTICLE ".
The postal department Of the Unit
ed States and of Hong Kong shall
each return TO the other. monthly, I
or as frequently as their regulations
will allow, all letters, newspapers,
&c, without claim, which cannot for
any cause be delivered.
ARTICLE V.
An exchange of mails shall also
take place be tween the United States
postal agency at Yokohama, Japan,
and the Hong Kong post Office, by
means of United States mail packets,
comprising correspondence original
ing in Japan aud addressed to Hong
and the Chinese ports above
designated, and vice versa, cor
respondence originating in Hong
Kong aud dependent Chinese ports