New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-28
OF ICI "A L.
TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

OF TIE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
POSTAL CONVENTION between the
lie of Salvador.
ARTICLE 1.
An exchange of mails shall hereafter take
place between the United States OF America
and the Republic of Salvador by the Ordi-
nary routes of communication, via the
Isthmus of Panama, the government of the
United States to be at the expense OF the
TRANSFORMATION thereof between New York
and Panama, and between San Francisco
and Panama; and the government OF Saliva
dor to be at the expense Of the transporta-
ton thereof between Panama and Salvador.
ARTICLE II.
All mail matter transmitted in either d.
rection between the respective countries
shall lie forwarded in closed bags, or
pouches, under key or seal, addressed to the
United States COnful and resident mail
agent at Panama, United States OF ColOm-
bia who is hereby designated as the agent
of the two governments TOR receiving the
bags, or pouches at that port, from either
direction, distributing and dispatching them
to their destinations. Said consul and agent
is hereby instructed to make up the mail for
Salvador in separate bags, or pouches, UNI
der kew or seal. addressed to San Salvador,
and the ports of La Union and Acjutla, re-
spectively.
No accounts shall be kept between the
POstOffi(e Departments of the two countries
on the correspondence exchanged between
them but each country shall levy, collect,
o<o;,, 70 ny,1y M a
lowing rates, viz:
First-The postage to he charged and col
lected in the United States on each letter or
parcel not exceeding half an OnncO (avOir.
dupois) in weight, addressed to or received
from Salvador, shall be ten tlO) cents; and
the postage to be charged in Salvador on
each letter or parcel of like weight addressed
to or received from the United States, shall
be two ~ reals Tor twenty-five cents United
States currency;) and each additional
weight Of half an ounce, or less than half
an ounce, shall be charged an additional
rate of ten hoy cents in the United States
and two ~ reals in Salvador.
SecOnd-The postage to be charged and
collected in the United States on news
papers, unsealed circulars, and other de-
scriptiOns Of printed matter addressed to or
received from Salvador, shall be two ~
cents on each newspaper, or unsealed circu-
an ounce, or pamphlets, periodicals., books,
and other kinds Of printed papers; and
the postage to be charged and collected in
Salvador on each newspaper, pamphlet,
periodical, unsealed circular, book or other
article Of printed mattcrs addressed to or
received from the United States, shall be at
the rate Of twelve and a half (l2l2) cents
Zone really per pound. Newspapers, pam
phlets, periodicals, books, and other articles
hn cnpf inv 1rrnvu
bands, open at the sides or ends, and are to
be subject to the laws and regulations OF
each country respectively, in regard to their
liability to be rated with letter postage
when containing written matter, or for any
other cause specified in said laws and regu-
lations.
ARTICLE ".
The Postofice Department Of the two
countries shall reciprocally return to each
other, unopened and without charge, every
three months, or more frequently il practi-
cable, all dead letters which from any cause
can not be delivered to their address in the
country to which they were sent
ARTICLE
This arrangement shall go into operation
on the first day Of October, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy. Itmay be mod
fled from time to time by mutual agreement
of the PostOfice Departments OF the two
countries, and it is to be continued in force
until annulled by mutual consent, or by
either Postoffice Department, after the ex.
piration of three months previous notice to
the other of its attention to annul the same.
Done in duplicate and signed at the city
of Washington on the fifth day of October,
1870, and at the city Of San Salvador on the
twentieth day Of July, 1870.
ELIAS ANGULO,
Director General de COrreos.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
hereby approve the afOregOing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof have caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed
U. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, October 5. 1869.
translation
The President of the Republic having
eeen and examined the aforegoing conven-
ton, concluded between the Administrator
General of Posts Of the Republic and the
Director General of the same branch in the
United States OF the North, and finding il
useful and convenient, has approved it in
all its parts.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
ARREGO ARBIRN.
A PROCLAMATION by the President of
the United States of America.-Addi.
tional Convention between the United
States and Great Britain.-Slave Trade
Concluded June 3, 1870; exchanged
August 10, 1870; proclaimed Septembe;
16, 1870.
Whereas convention between the United
States of America and her Majesty the
Queen of the. United Kingdom Of Great
Britain and Ireland, for the suppression OF
the African slave trade, with instructions
| for the ships of the United States and Brit
ish navies employed to prevent that trade
and regulations for the mixed courts of jus
tice thereuntO annexed, was concluded ant
signed at Washington by their respective
| plenipOtentiaries, on the seventh day O
! April, 1862 and whereas convention add
| tiOnal thereto, and instructions thereuntt
| annexed, were concluded and signed a
Washington by their respective plenipoten
tiaries, on the third day of June last, thu
| originals of which additional convention
| and instructions are word for word as fol
lows:
| ADDITIONAL CONVENTION TO THE CONyEN
TON BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AM
GREAT BRITAIN, OF THE SEVENTH OF April.
1862, RESPECTING THE AFRICAN sLAvl
TRADE.
| The United States OF America and he
| Majesty the Queen Of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, having come
to the conclusion that it is no longer neces
sary to maintain the three mixed courts OF
justice, established at Sierra Leone at tn
Cape of Good Hope, and at New York, il
pursuance of the treaty concluded at Wash
ington, on the seventh day Of April, 1862
for the suppression Of the African slave
| trade, they have resolved to conclude al
additional convention for the purpose O
making the requisite notifications OF thu
said treaty, and have named as Their