Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 16.djvu/996

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962 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH HAMBURG. LIARCH 28, 1864, letters received from an inland post—office. He will then till up the corresponding return bill, noting upon it whether correct or otherwise, and will see that it is returned by the first mail thereafter to the office of mailing (New York or Hamburg as the case may be). Resisteredleb Anmronn V. Registered letters received at New York from Ham. $;({§db° m` burg, or received at Hamburg from New York, and destined for an in- ° land post-office, shall be forwarded in the same manner as other registered letters originally mailed at either office. Accounts for Aivrrcnm VI. The United States and Hamburg Post·Oiiices shall fj§;s°°"°d 1°°’ reciprocally account to each other upon such registered letters as shall be i exchanged between them in the same manner as prescribed in the postal convention signed at Washington on the 12th day of June, and at New York on the 30th day of June, 1857; but the registration fee of five cents shall accrue to the United States Post-Office Department upon all registered letters sent from the United States to Hamburg, and to the Hamburg Post-Office Department upon all registered letters sent from Hamburg to the United States. In witness whereof) we have hereto set our names and afiixed the seals of our respective offices, this eleventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, at the city of Washington. [sur,.] M. BLAIR, Postmaster- General, U S [sun.] R. SCHLEIDEN, Minister Resident of the Hanseatic Republics. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE March 28, 1864. Agreedp upon betweeg the Post- Ojiee Dejgrtment of the United States and the 0st·O ce e artment of the anseatic Re n lic o Hambur , providing gizr the Jgonveyancgl of the Internationaij Uorresiondenee time of War or threatening ar. ‘€<>¤’¢¤P¤¤d¤¤¤¤ Wmcunvnn, in consequence of war or threatening war, the interna,

”;,£ggd€,f,_ tional correspondence between the United States and Hamburg cannot

steamer under a be conveyed by United States or Hamburg steamers, it may be conveyed zsggzl gz? Em by steamers under neutral {lag, subject to all the stipulations, rules, and ' ’ regulations, contained in the several postal conventions heretofore concluded between both countries. In witness whereof we have hereto set our names and atiixed the seals of our respective offices, this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, at the city of Washington. [sean.] M. BLAIR, Postmaster- General, ZZ S [san.] R. SCHLEIDEN, Minister Resident of the Hanseatic Republics.