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Show l?iiy lor Currying Ilritish Mui la. Washington, 6. Postmaster General Gen-eral Tyner and Secretary Edward Thornton, acting in behalt of Great Britain and this country, Bigued an agreement to-day that the territorial transit charges to be paid by the British Brit-ish postoffice to the United States for conveying the closed mails between Boston or New York and San Francisco Fran-cisco shall be six francs per killo-gramme killo-gramme of letters, about 2 pounds and 3 ounces and two francs a kilogramme kilo-gramme of printed matter and samples sam-ples of merchandise. These new and largely iucreased rates apply to all mails conveyed acrcss our territory on and after August 24th 1S76, and the agreement is terminable at one year'd notice. |