New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-27
OFFICIAL.
TREATIES AND CONVICTIONS
OF THE
limited STATES OF AMERICA.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
POSTAL CONVENTION between tn,
United States of America and the Repub
lie Of Salvador.
ARTICLE I.
An exchange of mails shall hereafter taxi
place between the United States of Americs
and the Republic Of Salvador by the ordi
nary routes Of communication, via the
Isthmus of Panama, the government of tn,
| United States to be at the expense Of thu
| transportation 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 Transports
| ARTICLE II.
All mail matter transmitted in either di
rection between the respective countries
shall be forwarded in closed bags, OF
| pouches, under key or seal, addressed to the
United States Conful and resident mai
agent at Panama, United States of Colon
bia who is hereby designated as the agen,
| Of the two governments for 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 fol
| Salvador in separate bags, or pouches, un
| der key or seal, addressed to San Salvador
and the ports Of La Union and Acjutla, re
spectively.
ARTICLE III.
No accounts shall be kept between the
Postoffil g Departments of the two countries
on the correspondence exchanged between
them but each country shall levy, collect,
and retain its own postage only, at the fol
lowing rates. viz:
First-The postage to he charged and col
lected in the United States on each letter OF
parcel, not exceeding half an Onnco (avoir
dupois) in weight, addressed to or received
from Salvador, shall be ten u0) 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
he 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 (l0) cents in the United States
and two ~ reals in Salvador.
Second-The postage to be charged and
collected in the United States on ne~s-
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 matter, addressed to or
received from the United States, shall be at
the rate of twelve and a half (l24a) cents
Zone real) per pound. Newspapers, pam
phlets, periodicals, books, and other articles
oT cd ho in,
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 if 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 v
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 POstotice 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,
Dirnctnr Genera1 do Correoe
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 S. 1869.
LTranslation.l
The President of the Republic having
seen 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 it
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 September
16, 1870.
Whereas convention between the United
States of America and her Majesty the
Queen Of the: United Kingdom Of Great
D,.x ,~,l Tco H. %
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 and
signed at Washington, by their respective
plenipOtentiaries, on the seventh day of
April, 1862; and whereas convention addi-
tiOnal thereto, and instructions thereunto
annexed, were concluded and signed at
Washington by their respective plenipoten-
tiaries, on the third day of June last, the
and instructions are word for word as fol-
lows:
ADDITIONAL CONVENTION TO THE CONvEN-
TON BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
GREAT BRITAIN, OF THE SEVENTH OF APRIL,
1862, RESPECTING THE AFRICAN SLAVE
TRADE.
The United States of America ami her
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 the
Cape Of Good Hope, and at New York, in
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 an
additional convention for the purpose of