The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-01-19
GOFFICIAL-J
LAWS OF Tue UNITED STATES
Passed at the First Session of the Forty
FIRST Congress.

f'1SScu 0t SHe ftySk NSJStOu OF Nc rory
First Congress-.
Convention betwee, the General Post Office of tn,
United STATES # America and the tienersl rest
0fic- of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland
Til. general post-ofhce o. the United States 81
America AMI he general pn>t-ufficr of the Uni ed
Kingdom of Great Britain aud L. el md, being de
81 Of sfaI.:s in:a nisiniainirgan eNcfr tngr
of mails terw, the Unite states the side
and tn Straits Settlements and the British East
Indies the .ther, by means cunj unity ot ~ {
line Of Uni.rt. states nail -ckets piying be ween
Sal. Francisco III Hon. hong and h line oi
Brit, h mail packets plying bet .een Hong hong
and Sin-apsr-, Csicu TIA, Mair,s, Bmb.,, and
Alden, the undersigned duly .uthei iz-d f,r that
p,,, pu>e have agreed uIrn the toll wing a tic!es
AkIicLk L Tue shall be a dire -xcnanz- Of
mails b-tS-en the offices If New Y.sk and San
Fran isco IN the part, an! the ,ific of-ing,-
pore. Cslcut a, sadrsss ou.bay AID DEF on
the orh.r. Comprising letter, "ew>p.pers. prices
current, bspk Jackets. ami packets OF y teens a
samples Originating. the U rt.d STATES AMI ad
cre,-e pcctf iy the traits settlements.
TO the Br,'ish Eat mites, r originating M The
British East Imiies or the strait set dement's,
specriSe y. ami ahii es>e.I to the Uni Ell >t,tes-
These m.is III II be Conveyed by United States
mail packets between frtreisce ii Hong
Kong VIA YAK ham, and by Bsi iii mail packets
between Hong hong and SINGAPORE or the Indian
ports
I'm ted SIaTes upon l,id correspondence ad,ire> ell
to tire Straits setIl-nent- the Dri. Ish kstst
lndies. shall lie tea cents per M. tier not
ceeding h .if Gun IN weight. TIE ,vier letters
being CHI .rged in y olsrti,'n, TIVE cents -aci, on
newspapers or pr ce- current aid -i-n cent PER
fur Vusces on b. pack T. 'ek-rs of pat ems
or >sms l,s; anil the To be colec .d in 'he
straits se'tl-m-n IT The British last Indies
Upon paidc rre-l.,ide. &c ..d,li The I'M Ell
States sh.l be ten pence per Single iert.r not -x
cee-i ny half ounce in weight. h. a,ier letters
being charged in proportion, and four pe..ce per
four ,as ees Tor newspapers, price, cure BOOK
packets IT I+,ckess If ls,rr-rus s,mi.les-
The sresp n.tenee thus l.aid hall be delivered
at toe PIa,e vi destination. whethe. IN the lnied
StA.-s in the British Possessions, free from Ii
charge ~ Whatsoever
Letters p--te in either untry unp id in f
ncirntly paid .lsil, n-verrhel -, be- furwarirj
and shall be charged at The pl zee Of e,iinatrn
with rs Ut p Stage Of the am Unit thar
woui be chargesbie IN a letter of like weight,
posted FIR de>pst. in tae spl, site direciIn, To-
sc her with hn-o six pence IN the st,ai is Sc
tlenents ,r the British Elst Indie, or of twelve
cents in the Uni e Sta
As1Ic Ill. TIE exchan- e If The spa,nd-
esc- referred To- in AtIc.~ ii, rrecedIns hail MT
give ri e To any accounts heI~eeu the Bsi'se a d
the CHIiei GATES Pot oficrs- zach ofii,e shall
keep tn postage which Il coil cts
AR IcLs ~ hwy letter, newspaper, price /!
curre.t. b'ok packet packet # patterns or -a,n
piles. d-spa,eh-i :rm office t. the other shall
Be ptin!y stamped in iei ira with stamp bearing
the words paid al ON the risht-hsnI upper |
corner # the address ami shal ais bear the dated
sta np # the office which 1t pasted /
ANTI LIE v. Dead letters. news, .apefs, &c which /
cannot delivered fIom whatever CAUSE shall lee
mutually returned without chai ge. mon h y. or /
- fr-slusntIy the sulations of the respective
Offices sill permit.
Article vi. The two Offices may, hy mutu,i !
consent. make such detailed .ulstiun> h shall
be fun,i Necessary {" carry out the objects # his
nt such regulations TO terminate at ay
time reasonable motto by eithrr ,.ffite.
Ar LIE VII. This Convention sha ctme into
rpefaii n the first day Of OVEN err, ti''ns
and eight hund ed ssd xty-eiyht. and shall lie
terminal at any time on notice by either ,flce
1f six months
Dune in duplicate and signed in Washington on
the wenty-eIght day of Jolly, A. u one til 'u-and
eight hundred aud sixty eight, and il Lon,l II on
the fourteenth day Of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty eight
lsz.Ll ALEX W. RANDALL,
Postnlt ter General.
IsEALJ Mon rROSE,
Pet nastsr General of the United Kingdom
I hereby approve the aforrgoing convention
md in testimony thereof have caused the seal Of
he United States to be affixed.
IsrAI.l ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President:
WILLIAM II. SEWARD. secretary of State.
Washington, July p, 1865.