United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 14
No. 14. A Joint Resolution in relation to the transmission of the British mail between Boston and Canada, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Postmaster Gen’l to make arrangements with British government for transmission of the mails between Boston and Canada.
Arrangements to be made for transmission of the mail betw’n the U. s. and Europe.
Ports of Bremen, Havre, and others, to be secured, &c. That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to make such arrangements as may be deemed expedient with the Post Office Department of the British government for the transmission of the British mail in its unbroken state or condition between Boston and Canada.
Be it further resolved, That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to enter into such arrangement or arrangements with the proper authorities in France and Germany, and the owners or agents of vessels plying regularly between those countries and the United States, whereby a safe and as near as possible a regular direct mail communication, under official guaranty, between the United States and the continent of Europe, viz.: the ports of Bremen in Germany and Havre in France, and such other principal ports on said continent as the Postmaster General may deem most proper, shall be secured―so that the entire inland and foreign postage on letters and all other mail matter, sent over sea from and to the United States, to and from any part of France and of the States comprehended within the German Customs Union, and of those countries on the continent, between which and France and of the said German States there exists a continued arrangement of the like kind, may be paid at the place where they are respectively mailed or received.
Approved, June 15, 1844.