The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-01

J United States Post Office registered
, letters and so forth addressed TO those
countries to which registered letters
can be SEM from the United States.
The British Post-ofice shall ac-
count to the United States Post Office
lin addition to the postage due to
the United States Post-ofice) for such
sums as shall be chargeabie to the in
habitants of the United States for the
registration from the United States
of every registered letter and so forth
addressed to the countries above
mentioned.
ARTICLE TX.
The British Post Office "a to
grant the transit through the United
Kingdom, as we'll as the conveyance
by British mail packets, of the closed
| mails which the Unites States Post
Office may exchange, in either
direction, with the post-ofhees OF
the United States Possessions, or
| of foreign countries, and the United
States Post Office engages to grant
the transit through the United
| States, as well as the convey
ance by United States mail pack
cts, OF the closed mails which the
British Post-Ofice nay exchange, in
either direction with the pest-ofices
Of British Possessions, or of foreign
countries.
The country which sends or receives
clio ed mails through the other shall
render an account of the letters, news
papers, book packets, and patterns
contained in such closed mails.
ARTTrTE
The rates of postage to be mutually
paid for the territorial transit Gnclud-
ing the passage of the English Chan
nel) of all letters sent from one
country to the other for trans
mission to places beyond. in clos
ell mails, shall be One-half of the or
binary inland rates now charged IN
the two countries respectively, viz.
for transit through the United States,
One-half Of three cents per single
letter, aud for transit through the
United Kingdom one-half of a penny
per single letter.
The transit rates Of postage to be
mutually paid for newspapers, book
packets, and patterns or samples of
merchandise sent in closed mails,
shall be fourpence per kilOgramEae
for transit through the United King
dom, and six cents per pound for
transit through the United States.
ARTICLE xT.
When in any British or United States
port, a closed mail is transferred from
one ship to another, without any ex-
pense devolving on the office of the
| country owning such port, such trans
fer shall not be deemed a territorial
transit, and shall not give rise to any
charge for territorial transit.
ARTICLE XII.
The rates of postage to be paid by
the British Post Office to the United
States POST Office for the sea CONVEY
ance, other than across the Atlantic,
of correspondence sent from the
United Kingdom to the United States,
In closed mails, for transmission to
places beyond, or brought to the
United States from places beyond, in
closed mails, for transmission to the
United Kingdom, shall be the same
that are paid By the inhabitants of the
United States, reeiprocally, the rates
of postage to be paid by the United
States POST Office to the British Pos..
Office for the sea conveyance, other
than across the Atlantic, of CORES
pondence sent from the United
States to the United Kingdom
in closed mails, for transmission
to places beyond, or brought to
the United Kingdom from places
beyond, in closed mails, for transmits
sion to the United Stats, shall be th'
same that are paid by the inhabitanti
of the United Kingdom.
ARTICLE KIN.
The combin d territorial and sea
rates upon transit correspondence
sent in ordinary mails, TO be accounted
for by one office to the other, shall
be the same that are paid by the in.
habitants Of the country through
which the correspondence is for
warded.
ARTICLE XIV.
The amount of postage chargeablt
by the United States Post-Ofice
on its own account, upon ever
|, single letter sent through tn
United Kingdom, in ordinar,
mails, addressed to the Unite,
= States, shall be three cents, and tn
! amount of postage chargeable By tt
British Post Office, on its own ac
count, upon every single letter sen
through the United States in ordi
nary mails, addressed to the Unite
! Kingdom, shall be one penny.
ARTICLE XIV.
e There shall be an exchange {
correspondence between the Unite
States of America and Bermud;
3 and between those States aud th
British Post-Omce Agencies, estal
lished in the Danish Colony of S
Thomas, in Panama, in Colon, an
In San Juan porto Rico) TIL
postage to be accounted for on sue
correspondence shall be fixed fro
time 30 time by the mutual consent
r the two offices.
}, ARTICLE XVI.
q The British Post-O Office shall pr
pare, at the expiration of every qua
l. ter, separate accounts, exhibiting I'll
results OF the exchange of correspond
Of ence, whether in ordinary mails,
lie in closed mails, between the respecti'
E. offices.
le Such accounts shall be found,
TO upon the acknowledgements of receiI
of the respective offices during ii
he quarter.
The separate accounts shall be i
~corporated in general accounts. whit
shall be compared and settled by t
e, two offices, and the balance sh;
y forthwith be paid, 10 the money
a the country to which the payment
or to be made, by that office which
pc found to be indebted to the other.
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