[110] For example, on letters of one half-ounce weight or under, the rate for distances not exceeding five hundred miles was made five cents, and for greater distances ten cents.--_Act to prescribe the Rates of Postage_, February 23, 1861; Statute I. Ch. 13: Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, (Richmond, 1864,) p. 34. [111] Report of Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, March 10, 1870, with Copy of Convention, November 8, and Letter from Mr. Reed to Mr. Cass, November 10, 1858: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 58, pp. 3, 14-17. [112] Executive Documents, _ut supra_, p. 14. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. p. 1081. [113] Executive Documents, _ut supra_, p. 16. [114] Executive Documents, _ut supra_, pp. 16, 17. [115] Ibid., p. 20. [116] Executive Documents, _ut supra_, p. 18. [117] Statutes at Large, Vol. XI. p. 408. [118] Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. p. 440. [119] Executive Documents, _ut supra_, p. 3. [120] Ibid. [121] Executive Documents, 36th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 1, p. 18. [122] Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 1, p. 5. [123] See Appendix (A). [124] Diplomatic Correspondence, 1862-3, pp. 843-6: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Vol. I. [125] Diplomatic Correspondence, 1864-5, Part 3, pp. 346-8: Executive Documents, 38th Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Vol. III. [126] Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward, May 19, 1862: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1862-3, p. 844.--This disposition of the surplus appears to have been first suggested as early as November, 1860, in an informal communication to Mr. Cass from Mr. S. Wells Williams, the accomplished Chinese scholar, and interpreter to the U. S. Legation in China. The outlines of the plan there mentioned were afterwards more fully developed in Mr. Burlingame’s dispatches. [127] Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Seward, May 19, 1862: Diplomatic Correspondence, 1862-3, p. 845. [128] Ibid. [129] Appendix (B). [130] Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 29, p. 4. [131] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 58, p. 3. [132] Executive Documents, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., H. of R., No. 29, p. 3. [133] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 58, p. 3. [134] Speech, June 11, 1852: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CXXII. col. 494. [135] Speech, June 4, 1861: Ibid., Vol. CLXIII. col. 579. [136] Mémoire à consulter et Consultation concernant l’Indemnité due au Baron de Bode, Londres, 1845. De Bode _vs._ The Queen, 3 House of Lords Cases, 449. Reports from Select Committees of House of Lords in 1852 and House of Commons in 1861 on Petitions of the Baron de Bode: Parliamentary Papers, 1860, Vol. XXII. No. 482, and 1861, Vol. XI. No. 502. [137] Mr. Reed to Mr. Cass, November 10, 1858: See _ante_, p. 119.