cluding also any cases or rollers of prints or maps, book-markers (whether of paper or otherwise), pencils, pens, or other things usually appertaining to any such article or production, paper, parchment or vellum, or necessary for its safe transmission, which shall be sent in the same packet with any such article or production to which they or it shall belong; provided nevertheless that nothing herein contained shall extend to authorize the sending by the post, under the 7th and 8th clauses of this Warrant, of any patterns, or books of patterns, or papers of patterns, of any article or thing whatsoever, unless such patterns consist merely of paper.

Every packet transmitted by the post under the 6th, 7th, and 8th clauses of this warrant shall be sent open at the ends or sides, and either with or without a cover, or in a cover or envelope open at the ends or sides.

No packet transmitted by the post under the 7th and 8th clauses of this Warrant shall contain any written letter, either closed or open, nor any written communication in the nature of a letter, either closed or open (whether such letter or communication be addressed to or intended for the person to whom the packet shall be directed or any other person), nor any enclosure, sealed or otherwised closed against inspection, nor any other enclosure not authorized by this Warrant, sent in or with any such packet, nor shall there be any written letter or written communication in the nature of a letter in or upon any such packet, or on the cover or envelope thereof.

Every packet transmitted by the post under the 6th and 8th clauses of this Warrant and posted in the United Kingdom, shall be put into the Post-Office at such hours in the day and under all such regulations as the Postmaster-General may appoint.

Upon every packet transmitted by the post under the 6th and 8th clauses of this Warrant, which shall be posted in the United Kingdom, the postage thereof shall be paid at the time of the same being posted.

10. All letters, notices, and other communications (whether upon paper, parchment, or vellum), partly printed or partly lithographed and partly written, which if wholly written could not be considered letters or communications in the nature of letters shall and may be transmitted by the post, under and subject to the several regulations, orders, directions, conditions, and rates respectively, in the 7th, 8th, and 9th clauses of this Warrant mentioned and contained.

11. Any letter, notice, or other communication (whether upon paper, parchment, or vellum), partly printed or partly lithographed and partly written, which if wholly written would be considered a letter or a communication in the nature of a letter, shall not be entitled to the privilege of being transmitted by the post under or by virtue of the 7th, 8th, and 9th clauses of this Warrant, or the regulations, orders, directions, conditions, and rates therein re

spectively contained; and every such last-mentioned letter, notice, or other communication sent by the post shall be deemed and considered to be a letter or a communication in the nature of a letter within the intent and meaning of the 9th clause of this Warrant.

12. If any question shall arise whether any such letter, notice, or other communication is entitled to the privilege of a printed paper so far as respects the transmission thereof by the post, or of being sent by the post under or by virtue of the 7th, 8th, and 9th clauses of this Warrant, the same shall be referred to the determination of the Postmaster-General, whose decision thereupon shall be final.

13. If any packet sent, or tendered, or delivered, in order to be sent by the post, under the 6th, 7th, and 8th clauses of this Warrant, shall in length, or breadth, or width, exceed the dimensions of 2 feet, or if any such packet, or the cover, or envelope thereof, shall not be open at the ends or sides, or if any such packet shall be sent otherwise than in conformity with the terms, conditions, and regulations hereinbefore in the 9th clause of this Warrant contained, every such respective packet shall and may be detained, and opened, and at the option of the Postmaster-General shall be either returned, or given up to the sender thereof, and every such respective packet on being so returned, or given up, shall, at the option of the Postmaster-General, be either free of postage or be charged with any rate of postage he may think fit, not exceeding the postage to which it would have been liable as a letter.

14. If any packet sent, or tendered, or delivered, in order to be sent by the post, under the 8th clause of this Warrant, from the United Kingdom to the Republic of Nicaragua (any such packet posted in London and sent from any department or office in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty, which shall keep a postage account with the General Post-Office in London, and the postage thereof being charged in such account only excepted), shall be posted in the United Kingdom without any postage paid thereon, or with a postage paid thereon less in amount than the rate of postage to which such packet is liable under and by virtue of the regulations hereinbefore contained, every such packet shall be detained and opened, and at the option of the PostmasterGeneral shall be dealt with and chargeable in like manner as is hereinbefore directed with respect to any packet not open at the ends or sides, or exceeding in length, or breadth, or width, the dimensions of 2 feet.

15. The respective letters and packets transmitted by the post under the provisions of this Warrant shall be subject to the several orders, directions, regulations, and rates of postage respectively contained in a certain Warrant of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the hands of 2 of the said Commissioners, bearing date the 19th day of February, 1855,* relating to redirected rates of postage upon letters and packets which shall be redirected and again forwarded by the post.

16. The rates of postage chargeable on letters, books, publications, or works of literature or art, and other printed papers, transmitted by the post under the provisions of this Warrant, shall be in lieu of any rates of British postage now chargeable by law thereon.

17. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any letters, newspapers, books, publications, or works of literature or art, or other printed papers sent between the Republic of Nicaragua and France, or sent otherwise than in closed mails between the Republic of Nicaragua and any foreign country or British colony through France.

18. The several terms and expressions used in this Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all respects as they would have had if inserted in the said Act passed in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty.

19. The Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury may, by Warrant under their hands, duly made at any time hereafter, alter, repeal, or revoke any of the rates of postage hereby fixed or altered, or any of the orders, directions, regulations, and conditions hereby made, and may make and establish any new or other rates, orders, directions, regulations, and conditions in lieu thereof, and from time to time appoint at what time the rates which may be payable are to be paid.

20. This Treasury Warrant shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1859.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 13th day of July, 1859. Ε. Η. ΚΝΑTCHBULL-HUGESSEN.

WM. DUNBAR.

TREATY between Great Britain and Nicaragua, relative to the Mosquito Indians, and the Rights and Claims of British Subjects. Signed, in English and Spanish, at Managua, January 28, 1860.*.

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Republic of Nicaragua, being desirous to settle in a friendly manner certain questions in which they are mutually interested, have reso 'ved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to

say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Charles Lennox Wyke, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoteniary on a Special Mission to the Republics of Central America;

And His Excellency the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, Don Pedro Zeledon, Minister for Foreign Affairs;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :

ART. I. On exchanging the ratifications of the present Treaty, Her Britannic Majesty, subject to the conditions and engagements specified therein, and without prejudice to any question of boundary between the Republics of Nicaragua and Honduras, will recognize as belonging to and under the sovereignty of the Republic of Nicaragua, the country hitherto occupied or claimed by the Mosquito Indians within the frontier of that Republic, whatever that frontier may be.

The British Protectorate of that part of the Mosquito territory shall cease 3 months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, in order to enable Her Majesty's Government to give the necessary instructions for carrying out the stipulations of said Treaty.

II. A district within the territory of the Republic of Nicaragua shall be assigned to the Mosquito Indians, which district shall remain, as above stipulated, under the sovereignty of the Republi of Nicaragua.

Such district shall be comprised in a line which shall begin at the mouth of the River Rama in the Caribbean Sea; thence it shall run up the midcourse of that river to its source, and from such source proceed in a line due west to the meridian of 84° 15 longitnde west from Greenwich; thence due north up the said meridian until it strikes the River Hueso, and down the midcourse of that river to its mouth in the sea, as laid down in Baily's map, at about latitude from 14° to 15° north, and longitude 83° west from the meridian of Greenwich; and thence southerly along the shore of the Caribbean Sea to the mouth of the River Rama, the point of commencement.

But the district thus assigned to the Mosquito Indians may not be ceded by them to any foreign person or State, but shall be and remain under the sovereignty of the Republic of Nicaragua.

III. The Mosquito Indians, within the district designated in the preceding Article, shall enjoy the right of governing, according to their own customs, and according to any regulations which may from time to time be adopted by them, not inconsistent with the sovereign rights of the Republic of Nicaragua, themselves, and all persons residing within such district. Subject to the abovementioned reserve, the Republic of Nicaragua agrees to respect and not to interfere with such customs and regulations so established, or to be established, within the said district.

IV. It is understood, however, that nothing in this Treaty shall be construed to prevent the Mosquito Indians, at any future time, from agreeing to absolute incorporation into the Republic of Nicaragua on the same footing as other citizens of the Republic, and from subjecting themselves to be governed by the general laws and regulations of the Republic instead of by their own customs and regulations.

V. The Republic of Nicaragua, being desirous of promoting the social improvement of the Mosquito Indians, and of providing for the maintenance of the authorities to be constituted under the provisions of Article III of this Treaty, in the district assigned to the said Indians, agrees to grant to the said authorities, for the space of 10 years, with a view to such purposes, an annual sum of 5,000 hard dollars. The said sum shall be paid at Greytown, by half-yearly payments, to such person as may may be authorized by the Chief of the Mosquito Indians to receive the same, and the 1st payment shall be made 6 months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty.

For the payment of this sum Nicaragua will levy and especially consign a duty, to be levied according to weight, on all packages of goods that are imported into that port for consumption in the territory of the Republic: and in case this duty shall not suffice for the payment of said sum, the deficit shall be made up from the other duties levied in the Republic.

VI. Her Britannic Majesty engages to use Her good offices with the Chief of the Mosquito Indians, so that he shall accept the stipulations which are contained in this Convention.

VII. The Republic of Nicaragua shall constitute and declare the port of Greytown, or San Juan del Norte, a free port under the sovereign authority of the Republic. But the Republic, taking into consideration the immunities heretofore enjoyed by the inhabitants of Greytown, consents that trial by jury in all cases, civil or criminal, and perfect freedom of religious belief and worship, public and private, such as has hitherto been enjoyed by them up to the present moment, shall be guaranteed to them for the future.

No duties or charges shall be imposed upon vessels arriving in or departing from the free port of Greytown, other than such as may be sufficient for the due maintenance and safety of the navigation, for providing lights and beacons, and for defraying the expense of the police of the port; neither shall any duties or charges be levied in the free port on goods arriving therein, in transit from sea to sea. But nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to prevent the Republic of Nicaragua from levying the usual duties on goods destined for consumption within the territory of the Republic.

VIII. All bonâ fide grants of land for due consideration made in the name and by the authority of the Mosquito Indians, since the 1st of January, 1848, and lying beyond the limits of the territory reserved for the said Indians, shall be confirmed, provided