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SZGPOSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JUNE 28&JULY21, 1860. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES June 28 and To the Articles agreed upon between the Post- Office of the United States of

 America andthe Post- Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

S°°P°**» P- 8*1- and Leland. 4***% P· 787· IN pursuance of the power granted by Article XXI. of the convention of December 15, 1848, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the two Post-Oilices 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 :-— New omce of ARTICLE I. There shall be established on the part of the United Q23Q2f,? '“ L°“' Kingdom a new office of exchange at Londonderry, which shall exchange ` mails with the United States offices of Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and New York, by means `of Canadian mail packets. Descriptionof Anrrcnn II. The description of letters, &c. which shall be comprised {;’;f§én;‘;‘g_t° in the mails forwarded from Londonderry to the several United States exchanging offices, or from those exchanging offices to Londonderry, shall {be arranged by correspondence between the British and United States Post-Offices. dig`g5:l°£g§1:§· Anrrcrn III. The present articles shall be considered as additional to Am, p_ ,,88_those agreed upon between the two offices for carrying into execution the convention of December 15, 1848, signed at Washington on the 14th May, 1849. Done in duplicate and signed in London on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and at Washington on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty. HORATIO KING. FREDERICK HILL. Approved: ‘J. Hom. Approved: ARGYLL.