The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-10-23
CONVENTION

! Between the General Post Office of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the General Post Office of
the United States of America.
The. General Post Office of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the General Post Office of the Unit
ed States of America, being desirous of
establishing and maintaining an exchange
of mails between the United States on
the one side and the colony of British
Honduras ON the other, by means of the
British mail packet playing between New
Orleans and Belize, the undersigned,
duly authorized for that purpose, have
agreed upon the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
There shall be direct exchange of
mail between the Office of New Orleans
ON the one part and the office of Belize
on the other, comprising letters, newspa
pers, book packets, and packets of pat
terms or samples originating in the Unit
ed States and addressed to British Hon
duras, or originating in British Hondu-
ras and addressed to the United States.
These mails shall be conveyed by the
British mail packets established between
New Orleans and Belize, so long as the
British government shall deem it expedi-
ent to maintain such packets.
ARTICLE III.
The postage to be collected in British
Honduras upon paid correspondence ad-
dressed to the United States Shall be six
pence per single letter not exceeding
half an ounce in weight, heavier letters
being charged in proportion; one penny
for each newspaper, and threepence per
four ounces for book packets, or packets
of patterns or samples; and the postage to
be collected in the United States upon
paid correspondence addressed to British
Honduras shall be twelve cents per single
letter not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, heavier letters being charged in
proportion; two cents on each newspa-
per, and six cents per four ounces on
book packets, or packets of patterns or
samples.
The postage in either direction must
in all cases be prepaid.
The correspondence thus paid shall be
delivered at the place of destination,
whether in the United States or in
British Honduras, free from all charge
whatsoever.
ARTICLE III.
The exchange of the correspondence
referred to in Article Ii, preceding, shall
not give rise to any accounts between the
British and the United States post Offices
Each office shall keep the postage which
it collects.
ARTICLE ".
Every letter, newspaper, book packet
or packet of patterns or samples, dispatch
ed from one Office to another, shall be
plainly stamped in rcd ink, with stamp
bearing the word ..Paid" on the right
band corner of the address, and shall al
so bear the dated stamp OF the office at
which 1t was posted.
ARTICLE v.
! Dead letters, newspapers, &c., which
cannot be delivered, from whatever
cause, shall be mutually returned with
out charge monthly, or as frequently as
the regulations of the respective offices
will permit.
ARTICLE VI.
The two Offices may, by mutual con-
sent, make such detailed regulations as
shall be found necessary to carry out the
objects of this agreement; such regula-
tlons to terminate at any time, on a reas-
enable notice by either officer.
ARTICLE VII
This convention shall come into opera T
tion on the 1st day of October, 1869,
and shall be terminabIe at any time on a /
notice, by either Office, of six months.
Done in duplicate, and signed IN Wash
incton on the 11th day of August, 1860,
and in London on the 4th day of Sep
tcmber, 1869,
TsEAL.l JNO. A. ]. CREsWELL,
Postmaster General.
Ts.AL.l HARRINGTON,
Postmaster General Of the
Ln,tea Kingdom.
I hereby approve the the aforesaid
and in testimony thereof
have caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
BY the President
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IL, 1869.