CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 114

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the business

of the two Offices

carried on under one 200f.

groly The Establishment of a sorting

office on board

the China Mails

the mail Packets carrying

So that the Hong Kong

and Shanghai Maile

may

on board during the voyages

be sorted

between

inngapore and Hong Kong and between

: Hong Kong and Shang hai.

One of

the conditions

要

the Foren

Fender

of

recently put forth for the India and China Packet lewices reserves power to the Postmaster feneral to require Such a sorting office to be provided.

3.7 The extension of the registration Ezotem to the Ports of Canton Swatow, Amoy, Foochow Ning po, Jokohama

And

L

And

Nagasaki.

4thly The Establishment.

or a

/

Book and Pattern Post by British Mail

at a combined sca

And

Packet Colonial rate of postage of 37

4 ounces

between Hong Kong and

fer

Shanghai

or any

other port in

China

Jahan to which British

Mail Packets lun.

The question of the

establishmat

at

a distinct British Post Office

of a

Zokohama has already been

dealt with

: the Treasury having

Authorized the appointment of a Postmaster there £500 a year haid by the (rown:

with

a salary of

been

du ly

and this decision has

communicated