from foreign countries for Japanese was probably not one in a
hundred of those carried,
foreigners;
we knew from
for
experience that the present-
postal service were punctually & carefully performed, and the remailing of Japanese letter to or from the intenor
"of Japan - considering how
vny
was -
few there number
c&eutail no
to delay in
their delivery. I cd not therefore
that this argument alove furnished sufficient reason
for
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for change but perhaps they
had others.
No. they replied they had no other reasons to urge. Hadit occurred to them, I then said
to see whether the arrangements they had made with the US. worked well before they proponed to take over two other Port Offices, those of England & France.
No.
the contrary they considered the simultaneous adoption of uniform arrangements with
all countries preferable to an isolated experiment.
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