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from foreign countries for Japanese was probably not one in a

hundred of those carried,

foreigners;

we knew from

for

experience that the present-

postal service were punctually & carefully performed, and the remailing of Japanese letter to or from the intenor

"of Japan - considering how

vny

was -

few there number

c&eutail no

to delay in

their delivery. I cd not therefore

that this argument alove furnished sufficient reason

for

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for change but perhaps they

had others.

No. they replied they had no other reasons to urge. Hadit occurred to them, I then said

to see whether the arrangements they had made with the US. worked well before they proponed to take over two other Port Offices, those of England & France.

No.

the contrary they considered the simultaneous adoption of uniform arrangements with

all countries preferable to an isolated experiment.

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