Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 15.djvu/596

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564 CONVENTION WITH HONG KONG:. AUGUs*I 10, 1067. l>°¥°*£*¤°d their regulations will allow, all letters, newspapers, &c., without claim, m°°° y' which cannot for any cause be delivered. Fgxchange of ARTICLE V. An exchange of mails shall also take place between the f:;E¤b::¤‘§gn United States postal agency at Yokohama, Japan, and the Hong Kong Kong. ’ g Post Oiiioe, by means of United States mail packets, comprising correspondence originating in Japan and addressed to Hong Kong and the Chinese ports above designated, and vice versa, correspondence originating in Hong Kong and dependent Chinese ports and addressed to Japan, subject to the same terms and conditions as those established by Article III. of this convention, with respect to the correspondence exchanged between the United States and Hong Kong and dependent Chinese ports. Letters from Am·1oLn VI. All letters newspapers, and prices current intended to gggnhsggging be forwarded from Hong Kcing to the United States by the direct line of msu 3,-,,,,.,;,. United States mail packets running between San Francisco and Hong ¤<>·i Kong must be specially addressed to be forwarded by that route. Begulati n ARTICLE VII. The two postal departments may by mutual consent wglhvw *:**2* make such detailed regulations as shall be found necessary to carry out m °` the ob`ects of this arran ement such re ulations to be terminable at an u J bl I t ’ in d y me ou a reasona e no ice y 01 er office.

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b either office of six months. Y In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and the seal of [I.. S.] the Post-Oliice Department this twelfth day of November, 1867. ALEX. W. RANDALL, Postmaster- General. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the colony of Hong Kong, at Victoria herein, this tenth day of August, 1867. RICHARD GRAVES MAC DONNELL, Governor and O'omm¢mder-in- Ohirj 5l>P¤‘<>'¤¢ I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony [L. s.] thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. By the President: ANDREW JOHNSON. Wrnmsu H. Smwnw, Secretary of State. Wnsumeron, November 12, 1867.