38 THE HONGKƠNG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1868.
on each newspaper or price current. No postal accounts shall be kept between the respective Postal Departments upon the correspondence exchanged between them under this arrangement, but each -Department shall deliver the correspondence which it receives from the other, free of all postage charge, that is to say, the Hongkong Post Department agrees to deliver without charge, all letters, newspapers, and prices current, brought by the United States Mail Packets, addressed to Hongkong, and also to forward without charge all such letters, newspapers, &c., as are addressed to the Chinese ports above named South of Shanghae; and the United States' Postal Department, on its side, agrees to deliver without charge all letters, newspapers, &c., originating in Hongkong or the ports mentioned and forwarded by said Packets addressed to and deliverable in the United States. All letters, newspapers, &c., despatched by either office to the other, under this arrangement, shall be plainly stamped with the words "paid all" in red ink, on the right hand upper-corner of the face of the address; and shall also bear the stamp of the mailing exchange office on their face, and that of the receiving exchange Office on their back.
-ARTICLE 4.
The Postal Departments of the United States and of Hongkong, shall each return to the other, monthly, or as frequently as their regulations will allow, all letters, newspapers, &c, without claim, which cannot for any cause be delivered.
ARTICLE 5.
An exchange of mails shall also take place between the United States' Postal Agency at Yokohama, Japan, and the Hongkong Post Office by means of United States' Mail Packets, comprising correspond- ence originating in Japan and addressed to Hongkong and the Chinese ports above designated, and vice versa, correspondence originating in Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports and addressed to Japan, subject to the same terms and conditions as those established by Article 3 of this convention, with respect to the correspondence exchanged between the United States and Hongkong and dependent Chinese ports.
ARTICLE 6.
All letters, newspapers, and prices current, intended to be forwarded from Hongkong to the. United States by the direct line of United States' Mail Packets running between San Francisco and Hongkong must be specially addressed to be forwarded by that route.
ARTICLE 7.
The two Postal Departments may by mutual consent make such detailed regulations as shall be found necessary to carry out the objects of this arrangement, such regulations to be terminable at any time on a reasonable notice by either Office.
ARTICLE 8.
This Convention shall come into operation the First day of November, 1867, and shall be termin- able at any time on a notice by either Office of Six Months.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Colony of Hongkong at Victoria herein this Tenth day of August, 1867.
[L.S.]
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
In Witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and the seal of the Post Office Department, this Twelfth day of November, 1867. -
[L..S.] ALEX. W. RANDALL,
Postmaster General.
I hereby approve the aforegoing Convention, and in testimony thereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[L.S.]
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President,
[L.S.]
WILLIAM H. SEWARD;
Secretary of State.
Washington, November 12th, 1867.
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