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Communities, vide my letter to you of the 19th September 1870, · N: 60 (C. I. O. No 2416).

9. If this

it is to

If this arrangement

this Office

mext

no

be disturbed on the 12th January,

will be quite ready to the payments which

make the

LZARI

now made to the United States

Post Office to the Japanese Post the Pacific Mail Steam

Office

ov

Thip Company, as may

may be

arranged; the maits being exchanged by the British Offices

Hiogo, Naguxaki

al

as at present.

10.

and Yokohama

and

а

With these facts reference to my report of the 23rd

ow

391

October 1873 N: 38 the Postal Convention between Japan

and the

United States, I would submil for His Excellency's consideration

it would be

whether

expedient for this Government to solicit the good Offres

1 Parkes to negociate

of Sir Harry

"Postal Convention with.

th Japan,

whether I should proceed thither

with

· power to conclude such a

Convention, subject of course

confirmation here,

consent

to

and and to the

of the United States Government, on the best terms

obtainable.

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It would be most desirable

to stipulate that the British Office

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