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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION
- Additional act (modifying convention of 1878) and final protocol signed at Lisbon March 21, 1885[1]
- Ratified and approved by the Postmaster General of the United States October 20, 1885
- Approved by the President of the United States October 20, 1885
- Entered into force April 1, 1886
- Terminated by convention of July 4, 1891[2]
25 Stat. 1339
[TRANSLATION]
Additional Act of Lisbon to Convention
Additional act of Lisbon to the Convention of the 1st of June, 1878,[3] concluded between Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chili, the United States of Colombia, the Republic of Costa Rica, Denmark and the Danish Colonies, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and the Spanish Colonies, France and the French Colonies, Great Britain and various British Colonies, Canada, British India, Greece, Guatemala, the Republic of Hayti, the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Republic of Honduras, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Netherlands and the Netherland Colonies, Peru, Persia, Portugal and the Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, the Kingdom of Siam, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, and the United States of Venezuela.
The undersigned plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries above enumerated, being assembled in Congress at Lisbon,
By virtue of article 19 of the Convention concluded at Paris on the 1st of June, 1878,
Have, by common consent, and subject to ratification, adopted the following additional Act:
Article 1
The Convention of the 1st of June 1878 is modified as follows:
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