The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-10-29
torrIcIAL.1
Postal Convention with Great Brit.
ain, November = and ~, 1865.

torrIcIAL.l
Postal Convention with Great BRIT.
ain, November 2 and ~, 1868.
Detailed Regulations ARRANGED b,tlceen The Gen.
crdl Post Office ofthc United States Of Amer.
lea and The Gensral Post Office Of ne United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and ireland,
for he Erseution Of the Convention Of nc
ttcenty;fourh day Of November, A. b. one
. thousand eight hundred and siIty-eigM.
ARTICLE |. Each Office shall send malls by
well appointed steamships of approved
speed, sailing on stated days between Liver
pool and New York, or Boston aud New
York, or Boston and Liverpool via Queens
town; aud also between Southampton and
New York, and New York and Southamp-
ton, as often as such steamships shall be
despatched; Prorided, That the malls so
sent shall not be delayed by such mode of
despatch, and proyided that the cost of
transit eau be arranged by each office In ac-
cordance with the rates which that office
may think Il right to pay for the conveyance
OF mail matter.
II 1t be shown by either office that the
sending Of any portion of the International
letters to any designated port causes delay
to such letters, II Is agreed that the other
Office shall cause to send such letters TO
said port unless when letters are specially
addressed TO be so sent.
ARTICLE II. Accommodation for the sorta-
tlon OF letters on board shall be provided by
the despatching Office when desired by the
office to which the mails arc sent; tho two
offices to determine, by mutual consent,
whether sorting officers, II employed, shall
belong to the British or to the United States
Post Offices, or partly TO the ono and partly
to the other, the salaries of the sorting Of
1cers to be paid by that Office 70 which the
officers shall belong.
ARTICLE III The following shall DO the
regulations for the exchange of mails be-
tween the British and tho United States Post
Offices:
/. The Office of London shall exchange
malls with the offices of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit,
Chicago, aud San Francisco.
2. The Office of Liverpool shall exchange
mails with the offices OF Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Detroit,
Chicago, and San Francisco.
8. The office of Southampton shall ex-
change mails with the offices Of Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
4. The office Of Dublin shall exchange
mails With the Offices Of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Portland, Detroit, Chicago,
and San Francisco.
s. The Office of Cork shall exchange mails
with the offices Of New York and San Fran
cisco.
Q. The office Of Londonderry shall ex-
change mails with the offices of Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Portland, Detroit, Chi
cago, and San Francisco.
I. The office of Glasgow shall excha ngo
malls with the offices Of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Portland, Detroit, Chicago,
and San Francisco.
s. The office OF New York shall send
mails to tho British packet office at 81.
Thomas, (West lndlcs.)
o. The British packet Office at Panama
UNITED States of Colombla) shall exchange
mails with the Offices Of New York aud San
Francisco.
10. The Office Of New York shall send
malls to the British packet office at Colon.
IL. The Office Of New York shall send
mails to the British packet office at San
Juan, porto Rlco.)
ARTICLE ~. The malls which are sent
from the office of New York to the British
packet Office at St. Thomas shall comprise
correspondence passing between tho United
States of America and the British and For
elgn West indies. NJ
Upon the correspondence despatched from
New York to St. Thomas, addressed to any
foreign port In the West Indies, the United
States Post-OHlcc shall account to the Brit
ish Post Ofilce at the rate of four pence per
half ounce for letters and one penny each for
newspapers.
the British packet office at Panama and the
offices OF New York and San Francisco,
shall comprise correspondence passing be-
tween the States on the western coast OF
South America or the British colonies of
Australia and New Zealand and the United
States of America.
Upon tho correspondence despatched from
New York or San Francisco to Panama, ad-
dressed to any of those states or colonies,
tho United States Post-Oiiice shall account
to the British Post Office as follows
|. Upon correspondence addressed to the
states on the western coast OF South America:
IL. Cd. for each half-ounee letter.
-"2d. for each newspaper.
-"3d. per ounce for book packets.
2. Upon correspondence addressed to the
British colonies In Australia or to New
Zealand.
sod. for each half-ounco letter.
-''2d. for each newspaper.
I'D. per OF. for book packets.
. The same rates shall be accounted for by
the United States Post Office upon unpaid
letters and newspapers originating In the
States on the weastern coast Of South Am er-
lea, In Australia or New Zealand, despatched
from Panama, addressed to tho United
States.
The mails which are exchanged between
tho British packet Office at Colon and the
office Of New York, shall comprise corre-
spondence passing between tho United States
OF Colombia and the United States of
America,
Upon the correspondence despatched from
New York to Colon, addressed to the United
States of Colombia, the United States Post
Office shall account to the British Post Office
at the rate Of four pence per half-ounce let
ter and one penny each for newspapers.
The mails which are sent from the post
Office of New York to the British packet
office at San Juan porto Rlco) shall COM
prise correspondence passing between the
United States Of America and the Island Of
Porto Rico.
Upon the correspondence despatched from
New York, addressed to Porto Rico, the
United States Post-OfiCe shall account to
the British Post ONCE at the rate of four
pence per half ounce for letters and one
penny each for newspapers.
ARTICLE V. Upon ordinary correspondence
despatched from the United States In ordi-
nary mails, by way Of tho United Kingdom,
addressed TO the countries and colonies
enumerated In Table A, annexed to the
\ present regulations, the United States Post
Oncc shall account to the British Post-
Onice for the rates of postage set forth In
that table. ts.u
ARTICLE VI. Upon ordinary correspond
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