The rates marked thus increase according to two different principles. The sum of Threepence out of each rate is chargeable by the Zoll-loth and the remainder by the quarter ounce. The rates marked thus † also increase according to two principles, twopence being chargeable by the Zoll-loth and the remainder by the quarter ounce.

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TABLE (B) continued.

GREAT BRITAIN AND SARDINIA.

DETAILED REGULATIONS arranged between Great Britain
and Sardinia, for the execution of the Postal Convention of
12th December, 1857.*-Signed at London, December 24,
and at Turin, December 29, 1857.

(Translation.)

THE Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland on the one part,

And the Director-General of the Post Office of Sardinia on the
other part,

With reference to Articles XXII and XXIII of the Postal Convention concluded between Great Britain and Sardinia, the 12th December, 1857,

Have agreed as follows:

ART. I. The exchange of correspondence between the British
and the Sardinian Offices shall be effected through the following
Post Offices, viz. :

On the side of Great Britain: 1. London; 2. Dover; 3. Malta.
On the side of Sardinia: 1. Turin; 2. Nice; 3. Travelling

Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway; 4. Genoa.

II. The following shall be the regulations for the exchange of mails between the respective offices:

1. The office of London shall exchange mails with the offices of Turin, Genoa, and Nice, and with the Travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway.

2. The office of Dover shall exchange mails with the office of Nice and with the Travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway.

3. The office of Malta shall exchange mails with the office of Genoa.

III. The mails from the office of London for the office of Turin shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to the city of Turin and to the Foreign countries enumerated in Table A, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the office of London for the office of Genoa shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to the towns in Sardinia or the foreign countries enumerated in table B, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the offices of London and Dover for the office of Nice shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to the towns in Sardinia enumerated in Table C, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the office of London for the Travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway shail comprise the corre* Vol. XLVII. Page 72.

pondence of every
kind addressed to all the towns in Sardinia not
enumerated in Tables A, B, and C, or to the foreign countries enu-
merated in Table D, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the office of Dover for the Travelling Post Office
on the Victor Emmanuel Railway shall comprise the correspondence
of
every kind addressed to all the towns in Sardinia not enumerated
in Table C, or to the foreign countries enumerated in Tables A, B,
and D, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the office of Nice, and from the Travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway, for the office of Dover shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to the towns in England enumerated in Table E, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the offices of Turin, Genoa, and Nice, and from the Travelling Post Office on the Victor Emmanuel Railway for the office of London, shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to the towns in the United Kingdom not enumerated in Table E, or addressed to the countries and colonies enumerated in Table F, annexed to the present regulations.

The mails from the office of Malta for the office of Genoa shall comprise the correspondence of every kind originating either in Malta or in the East Indies, Australia, or China, addressed to Sardinia.

The mails from the office of Genoa for the office of Malta shall comprise the correspondence of every kind addressed to Malta, or intended to be forwarded vid Malta to the East Indies, Australia, or China.

IV. The respective offices of exchange shall mark with red ink, in ordinary figures, on the upper right-hand corner of the address of paid letters passing in transit through one or both countries, the amount due to the office to which the letters are transmitted, and in like manner shall mark with black ink on unpaid letters passing in transit, the amount due to the dispatching office.

V. The amount of the deficient postage as regards letters, newspapers, and printed papers insufficiently prepaid shall be indicated on the address of each letter, newspaper, or printed paper by the dispatching office.

VI. Ordinary letters dispatched in ordinary mails by way of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, either from the colonies and countries enumerated in Table G annexed to the present regulations to Sardinia, or from Sardinia to those same colonies and countries, shall be exchanged between the British Post Office and the Post Office of Sardinia on the conditions set forth in that Table.

VII. Ordinary letters dispatched in ordinary mails by way of