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ther own
expense, had hither &
been found to work well & I ohd be glad to know what advantage wd in their
opinion result either to
foreign or to japanere interests
if the Japanese Sort
were
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take over the three Foreign
Port Offices hitherto established
in Japan & subotitute one
their own instead.
They
e of
replied that under the present systeme Japanese in foreign countrute cd only mail letters to a japanese treaty Port, &
that
(
that if their letters had to go further, they had to report
them in the Japanese P.O. In the same way a Japanese in the interior of Japan
cannot at preocut poot a letter drich to a foreign
country but much send it
to a treaty Port to be mailed in a foreign mail. Johvewed
that this consideration
appeared to be a slight one.
when compared with the delivery of the letters of foreigners. The number of letters canied to
or
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