The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-12-23

other possession or lerrilSFyol the U nited
States of America, or any rorelgO couo'
Try, or from any foreign country or pos.
session. or territory of the United St,IeS
OF America 10 tho Uniled States Of Am.
erica, their possessions or territories.
A mail Agent OF thu Uuiled States OF
America shall ba permitted TO ScCompaS
ny the cllsed mails 10 their transit
Tho United States Of America on their
pprt, engage TO grant to The United
M.Xlcan States tho transit, in closed
mails, free from sny postage duties, im
posts. detention or Examination WhateV,
er, through The UNiteJ SaIOs Of AmOr'
ica, or any o their possessions or terri
tories. of letters, newspapers, printed
pamphlets, OF oIhcr printed matter. for,
Wsfded lfom The UniLsI Mexican States,
orouy OF their possessions or territories,
to any other Mexican possession OF ter.
riIory, or 10 any Ioreisn country, or from
soY foreign counlry,or Mexican poHScs,
sion or territory, to the Mexican StStes,
their possesiOuI or territories.
A mail Asanl Of Mexico Oholl be per,
miurd to accompany the closed WSis in
their transit
ARrIcLE VIII. Tho means Of making
the transit of closed mails, uodsr the
sipuhlioos Of Article VII Of the prsI,
cut convention, shall DO arranged be-,
lween the General Post 0icO Depart.
msnts Of tho Two countries. subject to
the apprubaIion Of sacn government, rev
'pccIivcly.
ARrIcLs tx 10 case Of tho misfortune
OF war bslaeen the Two nations, the mail
1elyicc Of the two Pos, 0 III los shall con.
tnue without impodimenl or moleStar
ton. uull .iY weeks altar notification
shall have beon made oO tho part OF si,
ther Of tho two governments aud dSliV-
cred to the other that the service 10 to
he discontinued; and ia such case thA
niNi pa( (keI Of the Two countries Bhall
be permitted TO return freely aud under
special protection to their respective
pods.
Article X, The respective Post or,
hce regulations and rates OF postage Of
each Of the contracting parties shall be
communicated 10, and al matters Of de,
tail arising out Of the slipulssions Of thiI
convention shall ha settled between tha
General PJst Office Departments OF tbS
two republics as soon as possible AiIeV
the eEGhango OF the raLfcAIols Ol lhS
proSeut convention.
II is aso agreed lhIt the mSsSuFtO oe
det1il referred TO in this article may DO
modified by tbs two General Post Ofcs
D,pahmapts whenever by mutual con-
sent. those departments shall have lesl,
ded tl,xt such Idilicitiong woula bV
beneficial TO the post o(ico service ofths
Two counties; aud MeTeo proposes. ss
soon Us her means Of internal transport
lSlion will permit, 10 reduce her preRent
rates Of inland postage,
ARTICLE XII The present convention
shall continue n farce until II SHALL bS
Obrogsted by the mutual consont oI tbs
two contracting parties, or until one OF
them shall have given twelve months
previous noilcO to the other Of desire
TO abrogsIe it.
ARTICLE XII. This convention shall
be ratified in conformity with the Con
GiIulions OF the two counlrisS, and the
affiliations shall be exchanged al the
city Of Mexico within sx months from
the date hereof OF earlier it possible.
In witness whereof, va, the plenpoA
teotiareS OF the United States Of Amer,
ioa aud the United Mexican States, baVO
.igoed and sealed these presents.
Done in the city of Mexico, on the
eleventh day of December, in Tho year
of our lord one thousand eighI hundred
aud sixty-ooe, in the eightY-sl3lh year
Of the independence Of the United
Slatss of Amorcs, aud in tho forty frst
of Dhot Of the United Mexican Slses,
GLsl THOMAS CORWIN,
l. s. sEBN LERDo DE TEGADA,
Aud whereas the said convention has
byen duly raiGed nn both parts, Ond the
respective "a nifcalions of the same we're
orclanged in the city Of Mexico on the
twentieth uItimo;-
Now therefore bo it known ibst I,
ADaAnM LEc,LS President Of The Uni
ted stales Of America, have caused the
sud convention TO DO made public, to
the euj that the same and every olGuso
and arliees hereof may be observed aud
fulfilled by the United States and the
cirzens thereof.
la testimony whereof have hersunto
set NY hand and caused The sssl Of ihS
United States TO bo affixed,
Done At the CITY Of Washington. LhiS
twentieth day Of June in lhs
year of our Lord one thousand
r,., eight hundred aul SIXTY two ONd
PEAL oil tbs Independence Of the Uui7
ted States Of America tho eighr