payment of customs dues, after the 1st of January of the year in which they respectively fall due. The bearer will be credited with the interest on the coupon up to the day on which it is received, either for the purchase of public lands or payment of customs' dues.

VI. The coupons and interest will always be paid in silver dollars, or in ounces, at the legal value of 17 dollars to the ounce. VII. All the revenues of the Argentine Government are made chargeable for the fulfilment of the present Convention.

VIII. Inasmuch as similar Conventions are this day signed by the same Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Confederation and Plenipotentiaries of France and Sardinia respectively, the Argentine Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission, composed of the Ministers or Chargé d'Affaires of Great Britain, France, and Sardinia, and of 3 members named by the Argentine Government, which shall have for object to endeavour to settle amicably any differences which may arise with regard to any of the 3 Conventions.

IX. The ratifications of this Convention will be exchanged at Paraná within 8 months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done at Paraná, Provisional Capital of the Argentine Confederation, on the 21st day of August, in the year of our Lord, (L.S.) BERNABE LOPEZ. (L.S.) SANTO. DERQUI.

1858.

(L.S.) W. D. CHRISTIE.

(ANNEX.)-Table. Calculation showing how the Debt will be paid off in 34 Years, beginning in 1860, and ending in 1893.

ON a supposed debt of 100,000 dollars, the interest payable in the year 1860 will be 6,000 dollars, and 1,000 will be paid off at the end of the same year. The amount paid off in every succeeding year increases exactly as the amount of interest for the year diminishes; interest and instalment of payment making a total of 7,000 every year, except the last, when there is only a small remainder of the debt.

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

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES to the Treaty of 1858 between Great Britain and the Argentine Confederation, relative to British Claims. Signed, in English and Spanish, at Paraná, August 18, 1859.

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In order to determine more clearly some of the stipulations contained in the Conventions concluded on the 21st of August, 1858, between their Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiary of England and France, and the Chargé d'Affaires of Sardinia, and the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Confederation; and in order to facilitate the carrying out of the same:

The undersigned-that is to say, George Fagan, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, subject to the approbation of his Government, and his Excellency Brigadier-General and Senator Don Tomas Guido, in virtue of the full powers conferred on him by His Excellency the Vice-President, have agreed on the following Articles :

ART. I. Articles II. and IX. of the Convention of the 21st of August, 1858, and the Protocol of the same day, are cancelled, and are replaced by the following Additional Articles to the said Convention, which Articles shall have the same force and value as if they had been inserted therein word for word.

II. To the principal of each sum awarded as compensation settled and liquidated in accordance with Article I. of the said Convention, interest shall be added in the following proportions:

In the case of claims arising out of destruction and forcible seizure of cattle, destruction of farm property, sequestration of merchandize, thefts, and other losses, 50 per cent. interest in the

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aggregate shall be paid, however remote may be the date of the acts which gave rise to the claim.

In the case of forced loans and other debts, whose amount was clearly defined originally, 5 per cent. per annum shall be paid, calculated from the date of the acts which have occasioned the indemnity, or from the date of their recognition, to the 1st of October, 1859, even although the certificates given on account of the loan may fix the interest at 1 per cent. per month, or 12 per cent. per annum.

In the case of claims arising out of requisitions made, and other debts contracted, during the siege of Buenos Ayres, from the 29th of January, 1853, to the raising of the siege; and in the case of those which may have arisen in other provinces subsequent to the year 1852, 5 per cent. per annum shall be paid from the date of the facts to the same date of the 1st of October, 1859.

It is understood that none of the claims mentioned in the foregoing paragraph on account of the siege shall include those which are comprised in the arrangements made, or about to be made, between the Agents of England and the Government of Buenos Ayres.

III. The Government of the Argentine Confederation binds itself to pay interest on the debt at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum from and after the 1st of January, 1860, and to redeem it by annual instalments of 1 per cent. per annum, the first of which shall be made with the first payment of the said interest of 6 per cent. on the 31st of December, 1860; and from the 31st of December, 1860, the amount of these instalments shall be augmented every year in proportion as the part of the interest which remains to be paid is diminished, so that the whole of the debt shall be redeemed in a period of 34 years, according to the calculation in the table annexed to the Convention.

IV. Every debt of which the principal, with the interest liquidated on the basis herein laid down, shall not exceed the sum of 1,000 dollars, shall be wholly paid off in 2 equal payments, to be made on the 31st of December, 1860, and on the 31st of December, 1861, without being subject to the terms and conditions of the preceding Article.

V. In case the Government of the Confederation should wish to pay off the whole or a part of the indemnities awarded by the present Convention, the amount of the principal owed shall be accepted as payment in advance.

VI. No claim of the nature of those considered in the preamble of the Convention of the 21st of August, 1858, shall be presented after the 31st of December, 1860. This term shall not be extended.

VII. The ratifications of this Convention [these additional articles] shall be exchanged in Paraná, within the space of 8 months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done in Paraná, Provisional Capital of the Argentine Confederation, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1859.

(L.S.) GEORGE FAGAN.

(L.S.) TOMAS GUIDO.

BRITISH TREASURY WARRANT, fixing the Rates of Postage on Letters transmitted to and from the Argentine Confederation and the Republic of the Uruguay, and between those countries and British Colonies and Foreign Countries. September 19, 1860.

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WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the Regulation of the Duties of Postage," power is given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time, by Warrant under their hands, to alter and fix any of the rates of British postage payable by law on the transmission by the post of Foreign or Colonial letters or newspapers, or of any other printed papers, and to subject the same to rates of postage, according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such Warrant.

And whereas further powers are given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by another Act of Parliament, passed in the 11th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for giving further facilities for the transmission of letters by post, and for the regulating the duties of postage thereon, and for other purposes relating to the Post Office."t

And whereas it is expedient that further regulations should be made for the transmission by the post of the letters hereinafter mentioned.

Now we, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of the powers vested in us in and by the said recited Acts and every of them, and of all other powers enabling us in this behalf, do by this Warrant, under the hands of 2 of us, the said Commissioners, by the authority of the statute in that case made and provided, order and direct as follows:

1. On every letter not exceeding an ounce in weight, posted in the United Kingdom, addressed to the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation, or posted in the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation, addressed to the United Kingdom, and transmitted by the post between any part of the United Kingdom and any part of the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation (the conveyance between the United Kingdom and the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation being by British packet-boat), there shall be charged and taken an uniform rate of British postage of 1 shilling.

2. On every letter not exceeding an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to any part of the Republic of the Uruguay or the See Vol. 5, Page 248. † See Vol. 8, Page 247.

Argentine Confederation, transmitted by the post between any port in the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation, and any of Her Majesty's Colonies, or any Foreign Country through the United Kingdom (the conveyance between the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation and the United Kingdom being by British packet-boat), there shall be charged and taken a British rate of postage of 1 shilling for the conveyance of every such letter between any port in the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation and any part of the United Kingdom, and for the conveyance of every such letter between the port in the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of the packet or ship conveying the same, and the Colony or Foreign Country to or from which the same shall be forwarded, such a further or additional rate of postage as shall, from time to time, be charged and payable for British postage on letters not exceeding an ounce in weight, posted or delivered at the port in the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of the packet or ship conveying the same, and transmitted direct between such port and any such Colony or Foreign Country, provided that in all cases where such additional rate includes both inland and sea services, there shall be deducted from the said rate of 1 shilling the sum of 1 penny, in respect of the inland conveyance under this clause, of every such letter sent through the United Kingdom.

3. On every letter not exceeding an ounce in weight transmitted by British packet-boat from any port in the Republic of the Uruguay or the Argentine Confederation to any other Foreign port, without passing through the United Kingdom, there shall be charged and taken a British rate of postage of 1 shilling.

4. All such respective letters so transmitted as hereinbefore in this Warrant mentioned, if exceeding an ounce in weight, shall be subject to the several further and additional and progressive rates of postage hereinafter mentioned (that is to say):

On every such letter, if exceeding an ounce in weight and not exceeding 1 ounce in weight, there shall be charged, taken, and paid 2 rates of postage.

And on every such letter, if exceeding 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces in weight, 4 rates of postage.

And on every such letter, if exceeding 2 ounces and not exceeding 3 ounces in weight, 6 rates of postage.

And for every additional ounce in weight of any such letter above the weight of 3 ounces there shall be charged, taken, and paid 2 additional rates of postage, and every fractional part of such additional ounce shall be charged as an additional ounce in weight, and each progressive and additional rate chargeable under this clause shall be estimated and charged at the sum which any such letter would be charged with under this Warrant, if not exceeding an ounce in weight.