CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880

CONFIDENTIAL.

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Algiers Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Brazil and Portugal Brazil
Brazil
Buenos Ayres
Peru
Chile
Costa Rica
France
France
Mexico
Morocco
Nicaragua
Peru-Bolivia
Salvador
Sandwich Islands
Spain
Tripoli
Tunis
United States
Uruguay..

LIST OF TREATIES.

Additional Article. Packets Convention. Postal Convention. Postal Treaty. Commerce, &c, Treaty. Packet Service Convention. Packet Service Treaty. Commerce, &c. Arrangement. Mail Packets Decree. Mail Packets Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Convention. Postal Convention. Postal Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Postal Treaty. 3 June, 1751
19 Oct., 1844
17 Feb., 1876
29 Sept., 1840
14 Sept., 1808
19 Feb., 1810
17 Aug., 1827
14 Oct., 1850
10 Apr., 1824
4 Oct., 1854
27 Nov., 1849
3 April, 1843
24 Sept., 1856
26 Dec., 1826
9 Dec., 1856
11 Feb., 1860
5 June, 1837
10 April, 1850
24 Oct., 1862
10 July, 1851
28 May, 1667
19 Sept., 1751
19 Oct., 1751
15 Dec., 1848
26 Aug., 1842 Art. VII-IX
Art. VI, X, XIII
Art. II
Art, V
Art, V
Art. XVI
Art. I-V
Art. II
Art. II
Art. I, II, and V
2, Art. II
Art. XXVII
Art. II
Art. II
Art. II
Art. XV
Art. X, XI, XIII, XIV
Art. XXIX
Art. XXVI
Art. XX
Art. II

APPENDIX.

Opinions of Writers on Law of Nations respecting Treatment of Mail-Packets Judgment in the case of the Belgian vessel" Parlement Belge," 15th March, 1879 ..

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Herislet's Treaties, vol. vi, p. 88.

Conventions with Belgium.

Memorandum on the Privileges of British Mail-Packets in Foreign Ports, and of Foreign Mail-Packets in British Ports.

MAIL-PACKETS have no special privileges in foreign ports unless they are specially provided for in Treaty stipulations.

But numerous instances might be cited in which special clauses have been inserted in Commercial and Postal Treaties between this country and foreign Powers, providing for the treatment of British mail-packets in foreign ports and of foreign mail-packets in British ports.

For instance: in the Postal Convention with Belgium of the 19th October, 1844, it was stated that Belgian mail-packets were to be treated in British ports as vessels of war; and in the Postal Convention of the 17th February, 1876, it was provided as follows:-

"Article VI. The packets employed for the conveyance of the correspondence between Ostend and Dover shall be steam-boats of sufficient power and size for the service in which they are to be employed. They shall be vessels belonging to Government or freighted by order of Government.

"These vessels shall be considered, and treated in the port of Dover and in all other British ports at which they may accidentally touch, as Vessels of war, and be there entitled to all the honours and privileges which the interest and importance of the service in which they are employed demand.

"They shall be exempted in those ports, as well on their entrance as on their departure, from all tonnage, navigation, and port dues, excepting, however, the vessels freighted by order of Government, which must pay such dues in those ports where they are levied on behalf of corporations, private companies, or private individuals.

"They shall not be diverted from their especial duty-that is to say, the conveyance of the mails- by any authority whatever, or be liable to seizure, detention, embargo, or arrêt de Prince.

"Art. X. The mail-packets shall be at liberty to

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