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therefore suggest, that whatever may be the rates of postage fixed, by the Imperial Post Office for correspondence by the proposed new route, the Colony's share thereof should be the same, as it receives on that forwarded to Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States generally.
7. There would be no difficulty whatever, in the collection by this Office of the whole postage on correspondence sent and accounting for it in the accounts with the London Post Office, and the Colony's share of the postage on correspondence received might be brought to account in like manner.
8. In bringing this matter under notice, it is right to observe, that the correspondence between China and the places named is inconsiderable in bulk, and therefore, so far as the question of Colonial Revenue is concerned, the matter is not of much importance, but at the same time, as the Pacific mail steamers afford the possibility of facilitating the transmission of such correspondence...