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810 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. MAY 19 & JUNE 3, 1853. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES May 19 and To the Articles agreed upon between the Past- Office of the United States of

 America and the Post- Office of the United f€ngdom of Great Britain

S°°-"°"·P·8‘*r and Ireland jbr carrying into Execution the Convention of December 15, 1848. Ami P- 787· IN pursuance of the power granted, by Article XXI. of the convention of December 15, 1848, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America, to the two Post-Otiices, to settle the matters of detail, which are to be arranged by mutual consent, for insuring the execution of the stipulations contained in the said convention, the undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose by their respective offices, have agreed upon the following articles : - Letter rates. Anrrcuc I. Upon every letter not_ exceeding·half an ounce in weight despatched from New York, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, or San Francisco to Kingston, (Jamaica,) by United States mail packets, and addressed to any of the ’Danish colonies in the YVest Indies, the United States Post-Office shall account to the British Post-Office for the sum of four pence, or eight cents, and so on in proportion according to the scale of postage now established in the United Kingdom. Letters to the Amicus I1. The amount due to the British Post-Oilice for the letters £“$;hW;g:°I’Ef“· addressed to the Danish. colonies in the West Indies, forwarded from the dies. United States via Jamaica, under the regulations now agreed upon, shall be entered on the letter bill for Kingston, accompanying the mail by which such letters are sent, and shall be placed to the credit of the United Kingdom in the general account between the Post—Otlice of the United Kingdom and the Post-Office of the United States, prepared quarterly in the General Post-Office, London. These articles ARTICLE III. The present articles shall be considered as additional to

  • ° be **ddm°¤”li those agreed upon between the two offices for carrying into execution the

Am p_ 78E_ convention of 15th December, 1848, signed at Washington the 14th ’ May, 1849, and shall come into operation on the first day of June, one egxen to take thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and at London on the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. W. L. MABERLY. HORATIO KlN G. Approved: CANN1No·. Approved: JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster- General.