New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-27

L OF t0e capturing snip, ana the lauCuQe anu
Longitude Of the place where the detention
shall have been made.
The officer in charge of the detained YES
sci shall, at the time of delivering the YES
sells papers and the certificate Of the COM
mander into court, deliver also q certificate,
| signed by himself, and verified on oath,
stating any changes which may have taken
place in respect to the vessel, her crew and
her cargo, between the time Of her deten-
ton and the time Of delivering in such
paper.
| Where detained vessel is handed over
to cruiser of her own nation, an officer in
charge, and other necessary witnesses and
proofs shall accompany the vessel.
! ARTICLE ".
! All the negroes Or others necessary wit
nesses excepted) who may be on board
either an American or q British detained
vessel, for the purposes of being consigned
to slavery, shall be handed over by the
commander Of the capturing ship to the
nearest British authority.
| ARTICLE V.
In case any merchant vessel detained in
pursuance of the present instructions
should prove to be unseaworthy, or in such
| q condition as not to be taken III for adjudi-
cation as directed by the additional conven-
| ton of this date, the commander of the de-
! tanning CFuiscr HAY TAKE upon HIMSELF INC
| responsibility of abandoning or destroying
her, provided the exact causes which made
such step imperatively necessary be stated
in q certificate verified on oath. Such GER
| tlficate shall be drawn up and formally ex-
ecuted by him in duplicate at the time, and
shall be received as prima facie evidence Of
the facts therein stated, subject to rebuttal
by counter proof.
In case of the abandonment or destruc.
o. Io<o <no Md
crew, together with the papers found on
board, and other necessary proofs and wit
nesses, and one of the certificates men-
toned in the preceding paragraph Of this
article, shall be sent and delivered at the
earliest possible moment to the proper court
before which the vessel would otherwise
have been sent. Upon the production of the
said certificate, the court may proceed to
adjudicate upon the detention of the vessel
in the same manner as if the vessel had
been sent in.
The negroes or others intended to be con-
signed to slavery shall be handed over to
the nearest British authority.
The undersigned plenipotentiaries have
agreed, in conformity with the WITH article
OF the additional convention, signed by them
on this day, that the present instructions
shall be annexed to the said convention,
and be considered an integral part thereof.
Done at Washington, the third day OF
June, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDWARD THORNTON.
And whereas the said additional conven-
ton has been duly ratified on both parts,
and the respective notifications Of the same
were exchanged at London ON the tenth i'll
slant:
Now. therefore, be it known that /, Ulys-
ses S. Grant, President of the United States
OF America, have caused the said additional
convention to be made public, to the end
that the same, and every clause and part
thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States, and the
citizens thereof.
nv hand and caused the seal OF the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this six
'teenth day of September, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sew
enty, and Of the Independence Of the United
States Of America the ninety-tifth.
Z. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary OF State.
POSTAL CONVENTION between the
United States of America and the Prov
inces of Vancouver's Island and British
Columbia.
The undersigned, being thereunto duly
authorized by their respective governments,
have agreed upon the following articles. es
tablishing and regulating the exchange Of
correspondence between the United States
of America and the Provinces of Vancouver's
Island and British Columbia.
ARTICLE l.
There shall be an exchange Of mails be-
tween the United States and the Provinces
of VancOuver's Island and British Column
bia. at the following points, viz: On the side
Of the United States at Boston, New York,
San Francisco, Portland, Oregon,
Olympia: on the side OF Van
couver's Island and British Columbia,
Victoria. The two post departments may
at any time discontinue either OF said offices
of exchange, or establish others, by mutual
consent.
ARTICLE II.
The mails exchanged between the offices
Of Boston, New York, San Francisco. and
Portland on the one side, and Victoria on
the otner, are to pass each way as through
mails, not to be opened at any intermediate
office.
ARTICLE III.
The authorized weight of a single inter
national letter shall be fifteen grammes (by
the metrical scale) in the United States, and
half an ounce in Vancouver's Island and
British Columbia. The postage on single
international letter shall be six cents if pre-
paid at the mailing Office in either country,
and ten cents if posted unpaid; and for other
than single letters the same charges shall be
made for each additional fifteen grammes,
Tor half Ounce,) or fraction thereof Letters
insuficiently paid shall be transmitted as
wholly unpaid. But. if one or more full
rates shall be prepaid, the number Of rates
fully prepaid shall be alwa(e allowed, and
the deficient postage only rated up for col
lection on delivery.
ARTICLE ".
No accounts shall be kept between the
post departments of the United States and
Vancouver's Island and British Columbia,
on the international letters exchanged be-
tween them, but each shall retain to its own
use the postage which it collects.
ARTICLE v.
Newspapers, pamphlets, magazines and
all other printed matter posted in the United
States and sent to the provinces of Van
couvers Island or British Columbia, or
posted in those provinces and sent to the
United States, shall be chargeable with the
regular domestic rates Of postage, both to
and from the frontier line in each country;
which postage shall be collected at the
Office of mailing, on matter sent, and at the
office of delivery on matter received; and
each country shall retain to its own use the
postage which it thus collects.
ARTICLE VI.
Each mail dispatched from one country to
the other shall be accompanied by "a letteror
post bill, showing the number OF each OF the
articles comprising the mail, and distin-
gushing the paid letters from the unpaid
and insutiiciently paid letters, with their
postage in separate columns.
ARTICLE VII.