Bernado Espinoza to The Superintendent of the Royal British Mail Company , London, August 17, 1866

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UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA—EXECUTIVE POWER OF THE NATION—DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND PUBLIC WORKS—SECTION OF MAIL SERVICE—NUMBER 30.

Bogota, August 17, 1866.

The government of her Britannic Majesty having declared at an end the postal convention of 1847, between New Granada and Great Britain, the executive power of the Union has ordered me to inform you that as to the Royal Mail Company the exemption from the payment of tonnage dues and also the other privileges granted by said convention will cease, and that from and after the 1st of November next, in the absence of a new understanding with said company, its boats will have to pay tonnage dues, and the mail-bags from and to Europe must be deposited in the proper post offices of the country to be forwarded to their destination. I make this communication to you as a notice of the results which may follow.

I am your attentive servant,