touch, or the special agents appointed by the British Post Office, shall be the channels through which the respective post offices shall receive and deliver the mails. Accordingly, as soon as the commanders of the said packets shall have delivered the mails in their charge to such Consular or other Agents, the latter having taken out the official despatches of the British Government, shall forward such mails to the Colombian Post Office, which shall give a receipt for the same in due form. The said Agents shall be permitted to receive from the public, letters, newspapers, book packets, and patterns of merchandize, intended to be conveyed from the ports of the United States of Colombia by the British mail-packets, either to the United Kingdom or to intermediate ports; and in cases where the prepayment of the British postage chargeable for the sea conveyance of such correspondence is desired or necessary, shall be at liberty to collect such postage on behalf of the Post Office of the United Kingdom. The correspondence so received, together with any correspondence delivered to the agents by the Colombian Post Office, shall be made up into mails, and shall be handed over by the agents direct to the commanders of the packets. VI. The present Agreement shall come into operation from the day of its promulgation in the official newspaper of Colombia in evidence of its approval and the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force until one of the parties shall have announced to the other, one year in advance, his intention to terminate it. In witness whereof the respective parties have signed the present Agreement, and have affixed hereto their respective seals. Done in duplicate in the city of Bogotá, on the 11th day of September, 1875. (L.S.) ROBERT BUNCH. (L.S.) FRANCISCO DE P. RUEDA. INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH CONVENTION between Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey.--Signed at St. Petersburgh, July 19, 1875. SA Majesté l'Empereur d'Allemagne, Sa Majesté l'Empereur d'Autriche, Roi de Bohême, &c., Roi Apostolique de Hongrie, Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, Sa Majesté le Roi de Danemark, Sa Majesté le Roi d'Espagne, Son Excellence Monsieur le Président de la République Française, Sa Majesté le Roi des Hellènes, Sa The office to which the mail is addressed shall acknowledge its receipt by the next post. The letter bills from the offices of London, Southampton, and Liverpool for the offices of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Sul shall be in conformity with the Form C annexed to the present Regulations. The forms of letter bill which the Brazilian offices of exchange shall use in their communications with London, Southampton, and Liverpool, shall agree with the patterns above described. VII. The respective offices of exchange shall divide the correspondence which they shall mutually exchange into as many distinct packets as there are different classes of correspondence. To each packet shall be attached a label showing the nature of the correspondence covered by the label. The labels which the respective offices of exchange shall make use of shall be printed as follows: 1. On pink paper for paid correspondence. 2. On yellow paper for insufficiently paid correspondence. 3. On white paper for unpaid correspondence. 4. And on blue paper for mis-sent and re-directed correspondence. VIII. If it should happen at the usual period for making up the mails that there be not any letter or other correspondence from either of the offices of exchange, a mail, in which there shall be a blank letter bill, shall nevertheless be forwarded to the corresponding office. IX. Dead letters, newspapers, &c., which cannot be delivered, from whatever cause, shall be mutually returned after the expiration of every month. Such of those letters, &c., as shall have been charged in the account shall be returned for the same amount of postage which was originally charged by the sending office, and shall be allowed in the discharge of the account of the office to which they were transmitted. X. Letters forwarded for the purpose of annoying or injuring the person to whom they are addressed, the postage of which both offices are authorized to return to the public, even after they have been opened, may be included and admitted with the dead letters mutually returned. XI. Ordinary or registered letters or other articles misdirected or mis-sent shall be reciprocally returned without delay through the respective offices of exchange for the same weight and amount of postage at which they were charged by the despatching office to the other office. The articles of a like nature addressed to persons who have changed their residence shall be mutually forwarded or returned, charged with the rate that would have been paid by the receivers. Done, in duplicate, and signed in London on the 7th day of October, 1875, and in Rio de Janeiro on the 20th day of November, 1875. Date Stamp. (L.S.) JOHN MANNERS. (L.S.) LUIZ PLINIO D'OLIVEIRA. B.-REGISTERED LETTER LIST FOR BRAZIL. Particulars of registered letters, &c., forwarded from the Post Office to the Post Office by the mail of Acknowledgment of the receipt of Registered Letters contained in the Mail from C.-LETTER BILL. For the Correspondence between the United Kingdom and Brazil. Mail for Post Office 187 The following articles are sent herewith, the receipt of which it is requested may be acknowledged, viz.: TABLE 2.-Closed Mails from Countries in Transit through the United registered letters are sent in this mail the particulars of which are entered on a separate list. 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