New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-20
OF FL IA L.
TREATIES AND PRoCLAp1ATIoNs

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| Ecuador.
The undersigned, John A. j. Creswel
| Postmaster General of the United States Q
| America, in virtue Of the powers vested i
! him by law and Antonio Flores. ministe
| of the Republic of Ecuador at Washington
| in the name of his government, and b,
virtue of the powers which he has formal!
| presented to this effect, have agreed upol
the following articles, to wit:
ARTICLE /
An exchange OF mails shall hereafter
take place between the United States o
America and the Republic of Ecuador, By
the ordinary means of communication VII
the Isthmus Of Panama, the government o
the United States to be at the expense o.
the transportation thereof between New
York and Panama, San Francisco and
Panama, 50 long as direct service by
United States steamers, including the
Isthmus transit is maintained under exist
ing conditions; and the government O.
Ecuador to be at the expense OF the trans
portion thereof between Panama and
Ecuador SO long as the present or Other
similar arrangement for the ocean mail ser
vice between Panama and Ecuador is con
tinued. The correspondence so exchanged
shall comprise:
l. Letters and manuscripts subject by the
laws of either country TO letter rate of post
age.
2 Newspapers and prints Of all kinds,
in sheets, in pamphlets, and IN books, sheets
of music, engrayings, Autographs, photo
graphs, drawings, maps and plans, and such
correspondence may be exchanged, whether
originating in either OF said countries and
destined for the other, Or originating in or
destined for foreign countries to which they
may respectively serve as Intermediates.
ARTICLE II.
New York and San Francisco shall be
the offices OF exchange on the side of the
United States, and Guayaquil and Manta
shall be the offices of exchange on the side
of Ecuador, for all mails transmitted be-
tween the two countries under this arrange
meHt; and all mail matter transmitted in
either direction between the respective of.
fees of exchange shall be forwarded in
closed bags or pouches, under seal, adj
dressed to the corresponding exchange of
fee, and the mails so dispatched from
either country to the other shall be for
warded to the United States consul and
resident mail agent at Panama, who is here.
by designated as the agent of the two gov.
ernments for receiving the bags or pouches
at that port from either direction, and for
the same to their respective III
innate destinations.
Yhe two Post Departments may, at any
T.
change OF establish others.
ARTICLE III.
THE star Gard weirhr for ;He sfnoPe cafe
Of hostage and ruIa of nrogrpssion shall ha.
Eor Iattars or administering Snhinc, Nv
Jaw to letter rate of hostage. one-Iaif
ounce laToirduncis(
,, For ali 6tbel. corr.soondence men.
toned in the second paragraph of the first
article, that which each country shall adopt
for the mails which il dispatches TO the
other adantpd ia the convenience and h.tb-
it, of its interi0r adninistration. bu4 ZACH
country sbaIIgive notice 10 the other Of The
standard weight il adoDfs. and of any sinh
seouent change thereof The weight stated
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