TABLE showing the Rates of Postage to be accounted for by the Brazilian Post Office to the British Post Office upon Letters, Newspapers, Book Packets, and Patterns or Samples of Merchandize conveyed vid the United Kingdom in ordinary Mails between Brazil and the undermentioned Countries and Colonies. This Table, amended in conformity with the provisions of the Postal Union Treaty, was forwarded by the Post Office to the Foreign Office on the 6th September, 1875, with a request that it might be substituted for the Table appended to the Convention. (a) Gibraltar (a) Gallipoli, Mytilene, Salonica, Larnaca, Seuturi, Seres, Tchesme, Tenedos, Tultscha, Varna (a) Madeira, Malta 1 6 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Letters may be sent unpaid to those Countries the names of which are not in Italics; and Letters, Newspapers, Book Packets, and Patterns may be registered in those cases where a mark thus † is prefixed to the rates of Postage. The charge for registration to the places marked thus is a sum exactly equal to the postage, whatever that may be; and to all other places 4d. for each Letter, &c. An additional postage of 3d. per rate for Letters, 2d. per rate for Newspapers, and 3d. per 4 ozs. for Book Packets and Patterns must be accounted for when addressed to be sent from England vid Brindisi to the places marked thus §. The weight of a single book packet or packet of newspapers is limited to 2 lbs. in the cases marked thus (a), and no packet of patterns for these countries must exceed 8 ozs. § Australia (South and West), § New South Wales, § New Zealand, Costa Rica, Cuba, Greytown, Guatemala, Hayti, Mexico, Venezuela DETAILED REGULATIONS arranged between the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the General Post Office of Brazil for the execution of the Convention of the 16th August, 1875.*—Signed in 1875. London, October 7, Rio de Janeiro, November 20, ART. I. The following shall be the regulations for the exchange of mails between the British and the Brazilian Post Offices: 1. The office of London shall exchange mails with the offices of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Sul, as well by means of the direct mail-packets sailing from Southampton or Liverpool as by way of France and by means of the French mailpackets. 2. The office of Southampton shall exchange mails with the offices of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Sul, by means of the mail-packet sailing from Southampton. 3. The office of Liverpool shall exchange mails with the offices of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Sul, by means of the mail-packets sailing from Liverpool. II. The exchange of registered letters and other postal packets between the Post Offices of the United Kingdom and the Post Offices of Brazil shall be regulated as follows: The letters, &c., shall be entered with all the necessary details on special lists according to the Form B annexed to the present Regulations. The registered letters, &c., and the nominal list shall be then tied together with a cross string and placed in a canvas bag of an orange colour, which shall be securely tied at the neck by a string, the ends of which shall be sealed with the seal of the despatching office. The registered letters thus made up shall be placed in the mail of which they form part. The number of registered letters, &c., entered on the special lists must be specified at full length, in words, in the place reserved for the purpose at the foot of the letter bill. If it should happen that there are no registered letters to be forwarded, a blank list shall be sent inclosed as usual, in the orangecoloured canvas bag. The special lists shall be retained by the office to which they are sent, which shall simply acknowledge the receipt numerically of the registered letters received by it on the next list which it shall have to send to the corresponding office. In case of any difference or error being discovered on the open * Page 5. ing of the mails, the attention of the despatching office shall be called to the circumstance by the first post. III. The Brazilian Post Office may deliver to the British Post Office registered letters or other articles addressed to the undermentioned countries or colonies, viz. :— Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Canary Islands, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Constantinople, Denmark, East Indies, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Galatz, Gambia, Germany, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Greece and Ionian Islands, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Lagos, Labuan, Larnaca, Liberia, Madeira, Malta, Mauritius, Moldavia, Natal, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Nova Scotia, Penang, Prince Edward Island, Queensland, Russia and Poland, St. Helena, Salonica, Seres, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Smyrna, South Australia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tchesme, Tenedos, Trebizond, Tultscha, Tunis, Varna, United States of America, Victoria, Wallachia, Western Australia, West Indies (British). And letters (but letters only) to the undermentioned countries, viz.: Cape de Verd Islands, Curaçoa, Dardanelles, France and Algeria, Java, Réunion, Rhodes, Samsoun, Scutari, Surinam. IV. Upon registered letters forwarded from Brazil in transit through the United Kingdom, the Brazilian Post Office shall account to the British Post Office, in addition to the amount of postage set down in the Table annexed to the Convention, for the following sums, viz. :— For every registered letter addressed to France or Algeria, the Dardanelles, Rhodes, Samsoun, Trebizond, or Réunion, a sum exactly equal to the postage, whatever that may be. And for every registered letter addressed to any other of the countries or colonies enumerated in the foregoing Article III the sum of 4d. V. The respective offices shall mutually account to each other for the amount of postage due to each on the correspondence exchanged between them. On every prepaid transit letter sent from the Brazilian Post Office to the British Post Office the amount of postage due to the latter shall be distinctly marked in red ink in the right hand upper corner, and on every unpaid transit letter the amount due to the Brazilian Post Office shall be distinctly marked in black ink in the left hand upper corner. VI. Every mail passing between the offices of exchange of the respective Post Offices shall be accompanied by a letter bill specifying the amount of postage due to each office on each class of correspondence. 12 DETAILED Post Offic Ireland an tion of the London, October 7, Rio de Janeiro, Not ART. I. The of mails betwee 1. The office Rio de Janeiro, by means of the Liverpool as by packets. 2. The office offices of Rio de Sul, by means of 3. The office. of Rio de Janeir means of the mai II. The excha between the Pos Offices of Brazil : The letters, & on special lists ac Regulations. 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