TABLE (B) continued.

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 shall 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 enumerated 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

Sardinia, either from the foreign countries enumerated in Table H annexed to the present regulations, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to those same foreign countries, shall be exchanged between the British Post Office and the Post Office of Sardinia on the conditions set forth in the same Table.

It is understood, however, that in the event of arrangements being hereafter made between the Post Office of Sardinia and the Post Offices of any of the foreign countries enumerated in Table H above mentioned, so that letters addressed to those countries originating in Sardinia may be prepaid to destination, a like provision for prepayment to destination shall be stipulated for in favour of letters originating in or forwarded through the United Kingdom.

VIII. Upon ordinary letters and book packets dispatched from Sardinia via Malta to the countries enumerated in Table I, or from those countries via Malta to Sardinia, the Post Office of Sardinia shall account to the British Post Office for the rates specified in the said Table.

IX. Book packets despatched in ordinary mails by way of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from Sardinia or any of the States of the Continent, the correspondence of which is forwarded through Sardinia to the colonies and countries beyond sea enumerated in Table K annexed to the present regulations, or from those same colonies and countries beyond sea to Sardinia or any of the States of the Continent, the correspondence of which is forwarded through Sardinia, shall be exchanged between the British Post Office and the Post Office of Sardinia on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

It is, nevertheless, understood that the British Post Office shall have the right to deliver to the Post Office of Sardinia as paid to destination book packets which shall be forwarded from the colonies and other countries beyond sea enumerated in Table K, above mentioned, for Sardinia.

The rate to be paid by the British Post Office to the Post Office of Sardinia for such book packets shall be the same as for book packets originating in the United Kingdom.

X. Book packets dispatched in ordinary mails by way of Sardinia from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the foreign countries enumerated in Table L annexed to the present regulations, or from those same foreign countries to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be exchanged between the Post Office of Sardinia and the British Post Office on the conditions set forth in the said Table.

It is, nevertheless, understood that the Post Office of Sardinia