Evening star., 1869-11-11
Postal Convention between the United
States Of America and VenexuelR.

ARTICLE i. An exchange of mails shall here
after take place between the United States OF
America and Venezuela by the ordinary routes
of sea transportation, as well by private ships
by American or Venezuelan steam or other mail
packets plying between the seaports Of the two
countries.
ARTICLE H. Boston, New York. Philadelphia,
and New Orleans shall be the exchange Offices
on the side Of the United States, and Cdad Boli-
var. Laguaira, Porto CabellO, and Maracaibo
shall be the Offices OF exchange on the side of
Venezuela for all mails transmitted between the
two countries under this arrangement; and all
mail matter transmitted i'm either direction be-
tween the respective offices of exchange shall be
forwarded in closed bags or pouches under seal /,
addressed to the corresponding exchange Office.
ARTICLE iii. No accounts shall be kept be-
tween the Post-Ofiice Departments of the two
printed, exchanged between them; but the coun-
try which dispatches mails to the other shall
levy, collect, and retain, exclusively to its own
may hereafter be established by its laws for do
nestle correspondence, together with the sea
rates of postage hereinafter prescribed; which
one rate and collected by the despatching coun-
try in advance; the prepayment thereof to be
certified by the appropriate official stamp of the
despatching office. There shall be charged for
sea postage upon letters, newspapers, and prints
of all kinds, in sheets, in pamphlets, and in
books, sheets of music, engravings, autographs,
photographs, drawings, maps and plans, con-
yeyed by vessels of the United States or of Ven
ezuela between the ports of the two countries,
the following rates, that is to say: Upon all let
tiers or other communications in manuscript
which are subject by the laws of either country
TO letter rate OF postage the rate of serea cents
United States currency, or its equivalent i'm the
currency of Venezuela, for each weight of half
an ounce American or fraction of half an ounce.
ID Upon each newspaper, daily or other, the
rate Of cent United States currency, or its
equivalent in the currency of Venezue Sd
Upon prints of all kinds, in sheets, i'm pamphlets
or in books, sheets of music, engravings, litho-
graphs, photographs, drawings, maps, and plans,
the rate Of cent United States currency. or
its equivalent i'm the currency of Venezuela, for
each ounce or fraction of an ounce in weight.
The said newspapers and other printed matter
shall be enclosed in narrow bands or covers open
at the sides or ends, so that they may be easily
examined subject to the laws and regulations OF
each country respectively.
ARTICLE Nv. Upon ali letters and articles of
printed matter enumerated in Article iii. re-
Venezuela by sea, there will be charged by the
United States such rates of inland postage as are
now or may hereafter be established by the laws
OF the United States, which shall be collected
at the place OF destination, and shall belong
exclusively to the United States OF America;
and rice rersd upon all letters and like articles
OF printed matter received in Venezuela from
the United States of America by sea, there
will be charged by Venezuela such rates of in
land postage as are now or may hereafter be es-
tablished by the laws of Venezuela, which shall
shall belong exclusively to Venezuela Each
country shall defray the entire expense of sea
transportation q Of the mails which it shall des-
patch To the other country.
ARTICLE v. Ii is distinctly agreed that all
mailable articles dispatched from one country
TO the other shall be exempt in the country of
destination from any rate fee whatever be-
yond the charges prescribed by this convention,
and shall be free from any detention or inspec-
ton, and promptly delivered to the persons adj
dressed, being subject in their Transmission 10
the laws and regulations Of each country respee-
lively.
AETIcLE vi. Letters and other communca-
tiOns i'm manuscript, which, from any cause, shall
not be delivered to their address, after the ex-
piration of proper period To effect their deliv-
cry, shall be reciprocally returned without
charge to the Post-Ofice Department of the
despatching country; but newspapers and all
other articles OF printed matter which cannot be
delivered 70 their address shall not be returned
but remain at the disposal Of the receiving
country.
United States and Of Venezuela reciprocally en-
gage TO grant each TO the other the gratuitous
conyeyance across their respective territories of
all correspondence which shall be exchanged i'm
closed mails with any eouptries " which they