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part of such additional of a pound in weight shall be charged as an additional of a pound in weight; and each progressive and additional rate chargeable under this clause shall be estimated and charged at the sum which any such packet would be charged with under this Warrant if not exceeding 4 ounces in weight.

8. Every packet which shall be transmitted by the post under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant shall be so transmitted in conformity with, and under, and subject to, the several regulations, orders, directions, and conditions hereinafter contained, (that is to say):

Every British newspaper which shall be posted in the United Kingdom under the provisions of this Warrant shall be printed and published at intervals not exceeding 31 days between any 2 consecutive numbers or parts of such publication, and the same shall be registered by the proprietor or printer thereof at the General Post Office in London, and shall be posted within 15 days from the date of its publication, and the title and date of the newspaper shall be printed at the top of every page thereof.

There shall be no word or communication printed on any newspaper transmitted by the post under the provisions of this Warrant after the publication thereof, or upon any cover thereof, nor any writing or marks upon any such newspaper, or upon any cover thereof, other than and except the name and address of the person to whom the same is sent, but the name or title of such newspaper, and the name and address of the publisher, newsvendor, or agent by whom the same is sent may be printed on the cover thereof.

There shall be no paper or thing enclosed in or with any such

newspaper.

No packet, which is in length, or breadth, or width, shall exceed the dimensions of 2 feet, shall be forwarded by the post, under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant.

The terms "books, publications, or works of literature or art," in this Warrant used shall, for the purposes of this Warrant, mean and comprise all such articles as in their general character are either literary, or consist of printed, written, engraved, or lithographed matter (although not strictly literary), including books (whether printed, written, or plain), publications, or compilations (whether in print or in manuscript), almanacks, printed or lithographed letters, and such artistic productions as prints, maps (whether on paper, or canvas, or cloth, and whether printed or written), and photograph when not on glass, or in frames containing glass, and any deption of paper, parchment, or vellum (whether printed, lith aphed, written upon, or plain, or any mixture of the 4), togetner with any binding, mounting, or covering of, or upon, or belonging to any such article or production, or any portion thereof, or of or belonging to any paper, parchment, or vellum, and including also any cases or rollers of prints or

maps, book-markers (whether of paper or otherwise), pencils, pens, or other things usually appertaining to any such article or production, paper, parchment, or vellum, or necessary for its safe transmission, which shall be sent in the same packet with any such article or production to which they or it shall belong: provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall extend to authorize the sending by the post, under the 7th clause of this Warrant, of any patterns, or books of patterns, or papers of patterns, of any article or thing whatsoever, unless such patterns consist merely of paper.

Every packet transmitted by the post, under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant, shall be sent open at the ends or sides, and either without a cover or in a cover or envelope open at the ends or sides.

No packet transmitted by the post under the 7th clause of this Warrant shall contain any written letter, either closed or open, nor any written communication in the nature of a letter, either closed or open (whether such letter or communication be addressed to, or intended for, the person to whom the packet shall be directed or any other person), nor any enclosure, sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, nor any other enclosure not authorized by this Warrant, sent in or with any such packet, nor shall there be any written letter or any written communication in the nature of a letter, in or upon any such packet, or on the cover or envelope thereof.

Every packet transmitted by the post under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant, and posted in the United Kingdom, shall be put into the Post Office at such hours in the day and under all such regulations as the Postmaster-General may appoint.

Upon every packet transmitted by the post under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant, which shall be posted in the United Kingdom, the postage thereof shall be paid at the time of the same being posted.

9. All letters, notices, and other communications (whether upon paper, parchment, or vellum), partly printed or partly lithographed, and partly written, which, if wholly written, would not be considered letters or communications in the nature of letters, shall and may be transmitted by the post, under and subject to the several regulations, orders, directions, conditions, and rates respectively in the 7th and 8th clauses of this Warrant mentioned and contained.

10. Any letter, notice, or other communication (whether upon paper, parchment, or vellum), partly printed or partly lithographed, and partly written, which, if wholly written, would be considered a letter or a communication in the nature of a letter, shall not be entitled to the privilege of being transmitted by the post under or by virtue of the 7th and 8th clauses of this Warrant, or the regulations, orders, directions, conditions, and rates therein respectively con

tained. And And every such last mentioned letter, notice, or other communication sent by the post shall be deemed and considered to be a letter or a communication in the nature of a letter within the intent and meaning of the 8th clause of this Warrant.

11. If any question shall arise whether any such letter, notice, or other communication is entitled to the privilege of a printed paper, so far as respects the transmission thereof by the post, or of being sent by the post under or by virtue of the 7th and 8th clauses of this Warrant, the same shall be referred to the determination of the Postmaster-General, whose decision thereupon shall be final.

12. If any packet sent, or tendered, or delivered in order to be sent by the post, under the 6th and 7th clauses of this Warrant, shall in length, or breadth, or width, exceed the dimensions of 2 feet, or if any such packet, or the cover or envelope thereof, shall not be open at the ends or sides, or if any such packet shall be sent otherwise than in conformity with the terms, conditions, and regulations hereinbefore in the 8th clause of this Warrant contained, every such respective packet shall and may be detained and opened, and, at the option of the Postmaster-General, shall be either returned or given up to the sender thereof; and every such respective packet on being so returned or given up shall, at the option of the Postmaster-General, be either free of postage or be charged with any rate of postage he may think fit, not exceeding the postage to which it would have been liable as a letter.

13. If any packet sent, or tendered, or delivered in order to be sent by the post, under the 7th clause of this Warrant, from the United Kingdom to the Argentine Confederation (any such packet posted in London and sent from any department or office in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty which shall keep a postage account with the General Post Office in London, and the postage thereof being charged in such account only excepted), shall be posted in the United Kingdom without any postage paid thereon, or with a postage paid thereon less in amount than the rate of postage to which such packet is liable under and by virtue of the regulations hereinbefore contained, every such packet shall be detained and opened, and, at the option of the Postmaster-General, shall be dealt with and chargeable in like manner as is hereinbefore directed with respect to any packet not open at the ends or sides, or exceeding in length, or breadth, or width, the dimensions of 2 feet.

14. The respective letters and packets transmitted by the post under the provisions of this Warrant shall be subject to the several orders, directions, regulations, and rates of postage respectively contained in a certain Warrant of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the hands of 2 of the said Commissioners, bearing date the 19th day of February, 1855,* relating to * See Vol. 10, Page 289 (GREAT Britain).

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redirected rates of postage upon letters and packets which shall be redirected and again forwarded by the post.

15. The rates of postage chargeable on letters, books, publications, or works of literature or art, and other printed papers transmitted by the post under the provisions of this Warrant, shall be in lieu of any rates of British postage now chargeable by law thereon.

16. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any letters, newspapers, books, publications, or works of literature or art, or other printed papers sent between the Argentine Confederation and France, or sent otherwise than in closed mails between the Argentine Confederation and any Foreign Country or British Colony through France.

17. The several terms and expressions used in this Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all respects as they would have had if inserted in the said Act passed in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty.

18. The Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury may, by Warrant under their hands duly made at any time hereafter, alter, repeal, or revoke any of the rates of postage hereby fixed or altered, or any of the orders, directions, regulations, and conditions hereby made, and may make and establish any new or other rates, orders, directions, regulations, and conditions in lieu thereof, and from time to time appoint at what time the rates which may be payable are to be paid.

19. This Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1859.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 9th day of February, 1859. T. EDWARD TAYLOR. H. G. LENNOX.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and the Argentine Confederation, for the Settlement of British Claims. Signed in English and Spanish at Paraná, August 21, 1858.*

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Excellency the President of the Argentine Confederation and Captain-General of its armies, being desirous of agreeing on the means, mode, and form of payment of the debt which the Argentine nation acknowledges in favour of British subjects who have suffered losses in the commotions of civil war which have befallen the Republic, losses which the Argentine nation, adopting a healing and generous policy, has consented to recognize; and judging it necessary to establish their agreement in the form of a Convention which shall determine the conditions and form of payment, have resolved to name as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

* Ratifications exchanged at Paraná. March 27, 1860.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, William Dougal Christie, Esquire, Her Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation;

And His Excellency the President of the Argentine Confederation, the Secretaries of State in the Departments of Foreign Relations and of the Interior, Doctors Don Bernabé Lopez and Don Santiago Derqui;

Who after having exchanged their full powers, which they found in good and due form, he agreed on the following Articles :

ART. I. The Government of the Argentine Confederation recognizes as a national debt, all the sums due to British subjects on claims which shall have been presented on or before the 1st of January, 1860, and which shall have been settled jointly by Commissioners of the Argentine Government for that purpose appointed, and by the Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty or his representative.

II. The Government of the Argentine Confederation binds itself to pay interest on this debt at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, from and after the 1st of October, 1858, and to redeem it by annual instalments, the first of which shall be paid on the 31st of December, 1860, being 1 per cent. of a sum composed of the principal and of the aforesaid interest at the rate of 6 per cent., computed up to the 31st of December, 1859, and which instalment shall afterwards be increased every year by the amount by which the interest on the portion of the debt remaining unpaid is diminished, so that the whole debt will be redeemed in a period of 34 years, according to a table annexed to this Convention, exhibiting the calculation.

III. The Argentine Government will issue for each claim 34 coupons, payable to bearer, representing the sums to be paid on the 31st of December of each year, till the total extinction of the debt, and bearing interest at 6 per cent., which interest will be paid half-yearly, viz., on the 30th of June and 31st of December of each year. beginning with the 30th of June, 1860, till the total extinction of the debt.

IV. The coupons for all claims already settled will be delivered to Her Britannic Majesty's Legation for the claimants, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention; and those of other claims will be respectively delivered within 1 month after each has been settled by the Argentine Commissioners of Liquidation and Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, or his representative.

V. These coupons will be received, from the day of their issue, at the Treasury of the Argentine Government, at par, in payment for public lands; and they will also be received, at par, in the principal custom-houses of the Confederation, and, for the present. in those of Mendoza, Rosario, Corrientes, and Gualeguaychu, in

* Cancelled by Additional Articles, August 18, 1859. Page 53.

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