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LIST OF TREATIES.

Additional Article. Packets Convention. Postal Convention. Postal Treaty. Commerce, &e, Treaty. Packet Service Convention. Packet Service Treaty. Commerce, &c. Arrangement. Mail Packets Decree. Mail Packets Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Convention. Postal Convention. Postal Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c.

Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Commerce, &c. Treaty. Postal

3 June, 1751

19 Oct., 1844

17 Feb., 1876 29 Sept., 1840 14 Sept., 1808 19 Feb., 1810 17 Aug., 1827 14 Oct., 1850 10 Apr., 1824 4 Oct., 1854 27 Nov., 1849 3 April, 1843 24 Sept., 1856 26 Dec., 1826

9 Dec., 1856

11 Feb., 1860

5 June, 1837 10 April, 1850 24 Oct., 1862 10 July, 1851 28 May, 1667

19 Sept., 1751

19 Oct., 1751

15 Dec., 1848

Treaty. Commerce, &c.

26 Aug., 1842

Art. VII-IX Art. VI, X, XIII Art. II Art, V Art, V Art. XVI Art. I-V

Art. II Art. II

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Art. XXVII Art. II

Art. II Art. II Art. II Art. XV

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Art. XXIX Art. XXVI Art. XX Art. II

APPENDIX.

Opinions of Writers on Law of Nations respecting Treatment of Mail-Packets Judgment in the case of the Belgian vessel" Parlement Belge," 15th March, 1879 ..

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Herislet's Treaties, vol. vi, p. 88.

Conventions with Belgium.

Memorandum on the Privileges of British Mail-Packels in Foreign Ports, and of Foreign Mail-Packets in British Ports.

MAIL-PACKETS have no special privileges in foreign ports unless they are specially provided for in Treaty stipulations.

But numerous instances might be cited in which special clauses have been inserted in Commercial and Postal Treaties between this country and foreign Powers, providing for the treatment of British mail-packets in foreign ports and of foreign mail-packets in British ports.

For instance: in the Postal Convention with Belgium of the 19th October, 1844, it was stated that Belgian mail-packets were to be treated in British ports as vessels of war; and in the Postal Convention of the 17th February, 1876, it was pro- vided as follows:-

"Article VI. The packets employed for the con- veyance of the correspondence between Ostend and Dover shall be steam-boats of sufficient power and size for the service in which they are to be employed. They shall be vessels belonging to Government or freighted by order of Government.

"These vessels shall be considered, and treated in the port of Dover and in all other British ports at which they may accidentally touch, as Vessels of war, and be there entitled to all the honours and privileges which the interest and importance of the service in which they are employed demand.

"They shall be exempted in those ports, as well on their entrance as on their departure, from all tonnage, navigation, and port dues, excepting, how- ever, the vessels freighted by order of Government, which must pay such dues in those ports where they are levied on behalf of corporations, private com- panies, or private individuals.

"They shall not be diverted from their especial duty-that is to say, the conveyance of the mails- by any authority whatever, or be liable to seizure, detention, embargo, or arrêt de Prince.

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