Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-27

III ClOoCu lTGG lTOlil any postage, QuIlpS,
imposts, detention, or examination whatever,
through the United Mexican States, or any
of their possessions or territories, of letters,
newspapers, printed pamphlets, or other print
ed matter, forwarded from the United States
of America, or any of their possessions or
territories, to any other possession or territory
of the United States of America, or to any
foreign country, or from any foreign country,
or possession or territory of the United States
of America, to the United States of America,
their possessions or territories.
A mail agent of the United States of Amer
lea shall be permitted to accompany the clos
ed mails in their transit.
The United States of America, on their
part, engaged to grant to the United Mexican
States the transit, in closed mails, free from
any postage, duties, imposts, detention, or
examination whatever, through the United
States of America, or any of their possessions
or territories, of letters, newspapers, printed
pamphlets, or other printed matter, forwarded
from the United Mexican States, or any of
their possessions or territories, to any other
Mexican possession or territory, or to any
foreign country, or from any foreign country,
or Mexican possession or territory, to the
United Mexican States, their possessions or
territories.
mail agent of Mexico shall be permitted
to accompany the closed mails in their tram
sit.
ARTICLE VIII.
The means of making the transit of closed
mails, under the stipulations of article seventh
OF the present convention, shall be arranged
between the general post office department of
the two countries, subject to the appreciation
Of each government, respectively.
ARTICLE TX,
Tn poSp of tho of ,uoY l,ot,roo,
the two nations, the mail service of the two
post offices shall continue without impeachment
or molestation until six weeks after notifica-
ton shall have been made on the part of either
OF the two governments and delivered to the
other, that the service is to be discontinued;
and in such case the mail packets of the two
countries shall be permitted to return freely,
and under special protection, to their respec-
tive ports
ARTICLE Y.
The respective post office regulations and
rates OF postage of each of the contracting
parties shall be communicated to, and all
matters of detail arising out of the stipulatons
of this convention shall be settled between the
general post office departments of the two re-
publics as soon as possible after the exchange
of the notifications of the present convention.
1t is also agreed that the measures of detail
referred to in this article may be modified by
the two general post office departments when
ever, by mutual consent, those departments
shall have decided that such notifications
would be beneficial to the post office service
of the two countries; and Mexico proposes,
so soon as her means of internal transporta-
ton will permit, to reduce her present rates
of inland postage.
ARTICLE XII
The present convention shall continue in
force until it shall be abrogated by the mutual
consent of the two contracting parties, or I'M
til one of them shall have given twelve
months previous notice to the other of de-
sire to abrogate it.
ARTICLE XII.
This convention shall be ratified in confor-
nifty with the constitutions of the two coun-
tries, and the Publications shall be exchanged
at the city of Mexico within six months from
the date thereof, or earlier if possible.
In witness thereof, we, the plenipotentia-
ries of the United States of America and the
United Mexican States, have signed and seal
ed these presents.
Done in the city of Mexico on the eleventh
day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty one, in the
eighty-siXth year of the independence of the
United States of America, and in the forty
first of that ofthe United Mexican States.
1HOMAS CORWIN, L. S.
SEB'N LERDN DE TEJADA. L. S.
And whereas the said convention has been
duly ratified on both parts, and the respect
i've rattle ations of the same were exchanged
in the city of Mexico on the twentieth ultimo :
Now, therefore, be it known that l, ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN, President of the United States
of America, have caused the said convention
to be made public, to the end that the same,
and every clause and article thereof may be
observed and fulfilled by the United States
and the citizens thereof
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
T.. S. Done at the city of Washington,
this twentieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
two, and of the independence of the United
States of America the eighty-sixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the president;
VIM. II. SEWARD, secretary of state.