June 28, 1904.
Amendment to postal convention between Canada and United States of January, 1888.
Preamble. For the purpose of enabling the Post-Office Department of each country to deal with the newspapers and periodicals originating in the other and addressed to it, in the same manner as if such newspapers and periodicals had originated in that country, the undersigned Henry C. Payne, Postmaster-General of the United States of America, and Sir William Mulock, K. C. M. G., Postmaster-General of the Dominion of Canada, by virtue of authority vested in them by law, have agreed on the following amendment to the postal convention between the two contracting countries, signed at Ottawa, the 19th day of January, 1888, and at Vol. 25, p. 1418. Washington, the 12th day of January, 1888.
Article 1.
Prepaid postage required on certain newspapers and periodicals.
Vol. 25, p. 1413.
Amend article one, paragraph "a," by adding thereto after the word "revenues" the following: and in the case of newspapers and periodicals, to the right of each Administration to decline to transmit through its mails, except when duly prepaid by stamps affixed in the country of origin at the rate applicable to miscellaneous printed matter, such newspapers and periodicals as it would decline to transmit through its mails under the statutory newspaper and periodical privileges accorded to publishers and newsdealers, if such newspapers and periodicals were published in its own country.
Article 2.
Effect.
This amendment shall take effect upon the first day of July, 1904, and shall continue in force until terminated by mutual agreement or annulled at the instance of the Post-Office Department of either country upon six months’ previous notice given to the other.
Signatures.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washington on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four, and at Ottawa on the —— day of ———, one thousand nine hundred and four.
[seal.]H. C. Payne
Postmaster General of the United States of America.
[seal.]W. Mulock
Postmaster General of the Dominion of Canada.
Approval. I hereby approve and ratify the foregoing amendment to Article I of the Postal Convention of January 1888, between the United States and Canada. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
[seal.]Theodore Roosevelt.
By the President
John Hay
Secretary of State.
