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POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. MA¥25&J¤NB I7, 1858. 823 Postal Arrangement between the United States and Great Britain. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES To the Articles agreed upon between the Postgpioe of the United States May 2S and of America and the Post- Office of the United ingdom of Great Britain and Deland for carrying into Execution the Oonvention of Decem» °°°!’°·"·P·"“· ber 15, 1848. IN pursuance of the power granted by Article XXI. of the convention Ante, p. 787. of December 15, 1848, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the two Post·OiIices, to settle the matters of detail, which are to be arranged by mutual consent, for ensuring 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 :—— Anrrcnn I. The United States mail packets having ceased to call at Isjxehange of Kingston, (Jamaica,) an exchange of mails shall hereafter take place gflf,;:;‘;:°;‘nd between the following offices, so long as British and United States ` governments respectively shall deem it expedient to maintain a. communication by packet between the several ports enumerated:- 1. Between the post—oi·Hce of New York and the British packet-office New York; at St. Thomas ; 2. Between the post-office of Charleston and the British packet-office charleston; at St. Thomas ; 3. Between the post-oflice of Savannah and the British packet·oti·ice at Savannah; St. Thomas ; 4. Between the post—office of New Orleans and the British packet- New Orleans; office at St. Thomas ; 5. Between the post-office of San Francisco andthe British packet- San Francisco; -otHce at St. Thomas. , These mails shall be conveyed between the several ports of the United b°g*<> **6 <><>¤· States and the port of Havana, in the island of Cuba, by means of v°y° ' United States mail packets, and between Havana and St. Thomas by means of British mail packets. Anrrcnn II. The mails forwarded from New York, Charleston, Sa- Mails how vannah, New Orleans, and San Francisco to St. Thomas, and from St. “°“d° “P· Thomas to New York, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, and San Francisco, shall be made up in strict. conformity with the regulations prescribed by the additional articles for carrying into execution the convention of the 15th December, 1848, signed at Washington on the 3d December, 1852, and at London on the 27th December, 1852, and the rates of postage to be accounted for by the United States Post-Otiice to the British Post—OfIice upon letters and newspapers comprised in those mails, as well as the mode in which such postage shall be accounted for, shall be the same that were fixed by those additional articles, and by the additional articles signed at Washington on the 19th May, 1853, and at London on the 3d June, 1853. ARTICLE III. The present articles shall be considered as additional to 0T1Q3i2g astuthose agreed upon between the two offices for carrying into execution the Q013Q1mi0in_ convention of 15th December, 1848, signed at Washington on the 14th Am, p, 788. May, 1849.