The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-03-04

tries shall be forwarded in closed bags
or pouches, under key or seal, ad-
dressed to the United States Coneul
and resident mail agent at Panama.
United States of Columbia, who is
hereby designated 40 the agent of the
two governments for receiving the bags
or pouches, at that port, from either
direction, distribnting and dispstchine
them to their dessiuations. Said con-
| sul and agent is hereby instructed to
make up the mail for Salvador in Sc
parate bags, or pouches, under key or
seal, addressed TO San Salvador, and
the ports of La Union and Assjutla.
respectively.
No account shall be kept between the
Post Office Departments of the two
| countries on the correspondence ex-
change between them but each couD-
try shall levy, collect, and retain its
own postage only, at the following
| rates, viz
LIST. The postage to be charged and
collected in the United States ON each
letter or parcel, not exceeding half an
ounce (avordupois) in weight, address,
| ed to or received from Salvador, shall
| be ten (l0) cent ; and toe 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 (21 reals, Tor twenty-five
| cents United States currency j and
| each additional weight of half an
ounce, shall be charged an addition al
rate of ten (lo} cents in the United
States and two (2) reals in Salvador.
I'd. The postage to be charged and
| collected in the United States on news
papers, unsealed circulars, and other
descriptions of printed matter, address
| ed to or received from Salvador, shall
be two (2) cents on each newspaper, !,
| or unsealed circular, and enc cent an
ounce, on pamphlets, periodicals,
books, and other kinds OF printed pa
/ pers, and the postage to be charged
and collected in Salvador on each
newspaper, pamphlet, periodical, M.
sealed circular, book, or other article
of printed matter, addressed to or re-
ceived from the United States, shall be
at the rate of twelve and q half (12},
cents Zone resD per pound. Newspa
pers, pamphlets, periodicals, books anC
other articles of printed matter mus
be sent in narrow bands, open at tn,
sides or ends, and are to be subjec
to the laws and regulations of eact
country, respectively, in regard te
their liability to be rated with lettel
tpostage when containing written mat
ter, or for any other cause specified il
said laws and regulations.
ARTICLE 4.
The Post Office Department of th,
two countries shall reciprocally returi
to each other, unopened, and withou
charge, every three months, or NOR
frequently if practicable, all dead let
ters which from any cause cannot b.
delivered to their address in the coun
try to which they were sent.
ARrIcLE
This arrangement shall go into oper
alton on the first day of October, on
thousand eight hundred and seventy
It may be modified from time to tim
ny mutual agreement OF the Post Ofic
Departments of the two countries, an
it is to be continues in force until an
pulled by mutual consent, or by eithe
Post Office Department, after the ex
pira,ion of three months previous no
tice to the other of its intept ton to an
null the same.
Done in duplicate and signed at th
city of Washington on the fifth day Q
October, 1870, and at the city of Sal
Salvador on the twentieth day of July
1870.
ELIAS ANGULo,
Director General de Correos.
CsEAL1 JNO. A. j. CRESSW ELL,
Postmdsfer General of the United States.
l hereby approve the foregoing con
veation, and in testimony thereof
have caused the seal of the Unite,
States to be affixed.
By the President:
sEAL1 HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State.
| Translation.1
Tie President Of the Republic hav
ing seen and examined the aforesai
convention, concluded between tn
Administrator General of Posts of th
Republic and the Director General o
the same branch in the United State
of the North, and finding it useful "a
convenient, has approved 1t in all it
parts.
The Minister of Foreign A fairs,
CsHAL1~ ARREO0 ARBIkN.
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POSTAL CONVENTION
| BETwEEN &g
THE UNITED STATES OFsAMERICl
u AND THE
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OF NEv
ZEALAND.
The undersigned, being thereunt,
duly authorised by Their RESPECTIVE
govsrnments, have agreed upon tn
following articles establishing and reg
ulatfng an exchangeo of correspondence
between the United States Of America
and the colony Of New Zealand.
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