At the moment of proceeding to sign the Conventions settled by the Universal Postal Congress of Rome, the undersigned plenipotentiaries have agreed as follows:

Note is taken of the declaration made by the British delegates in the name of their Government to the effect that it has assigned to New Zealand, with the Cook Islands and other island dependencies, the vote which Article 27, 7^o, of the Convention attributes to "the whole of the other British colonies."

In modification of Article 27 of the Convention, a second vote is accorded to the Netherlands Colonies, in favour of the Netherlands East Indies.

In modification of the stipulations of paragraph 1 of Article 5, it is agreed that, as a temporary measure, Postal Administrations, which in consequence of the organisation of their internal service, or for other causes, cannot adopt the principle of the increase of the unit of weight for letters from 15 to 20 grammes, and that of the reduction of the charge above the first unit of weight to 15 centimes for each supplementary rate instead of 25 centimes, are authorised to postpone the application of these two stipulations or of one or other of them, so far as regards letters originating in their service, until the day when they are in a position to apply them, and to conform in the meantime to the measures prescribed on this subject by the Congress of Washington.

In modification of Article 6 of the Convention, which fixes at 25 centimes the maximum charge for registration, it is agreed that countries out of