CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 102

of correspondence between China, India.

te, and the United States by

of a

Line

Queaus

of United States Packets

recently established between Saw

Francisco, Yokohama a

Kong.

and Stong

The postage is to be payable

in advance, and each

Country is

to retain the postage which it

collects. The rates are to be fixed

by mutual consent

Their Lordships

concur

with the Duke of Montrose in

that the arrangements

Hinking

be au

an

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advantageous one, and with

a view to its adoption, so far

as

The

Starts' Settlements are concerned, I

and to request

request that

Sou

will move

The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos to inform his Grace Whittier

the Government of the Strails'

Settlements will

agree

to it.

With

regard

to the Eates

of

postage, Colonial and British, to be

collected upon Letters ke,

Letters ke, for the

United States, sent from the Straits

Settlements

by

the new route bia

Hong Kong. I am to state that so far

as

would