New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-17

Office, and shall FOLLOW the form D, here.
| unto annexed.
ARTICLE vIH.
I Getters originating in foreign countries
and addressed to the United States or
| Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign
! and International postal charges are fully
! prepaid, shall, when forwarded in the mails
7 Of either country TO the other, be delivered
IN til" country Of destination free Of charge.
| ARTICLE viz
The official correspondence between the
| two governments, that Of each government
| with its legation near the other, and of
| each legation with its government, shall be
conveyed to its destination free of postage
| and with all the precautions which the two
| governments may find necessary fer its in
volatility and security.
ARPICLEYx.
when in one Of the two countries thore
is no legation of the other the ranking
privilege of the vacant legation shall be
| transferred, in the terms stipulated in the
preceding article, to the respective consul
ate or vice consulate at New York or Quay
aquiL
ARTICLE Y.
Neither Post Department shall be re-
quired to deliver any article received in the
mails tlfe circulation Of which shall be pro
hiblted by the laws in force in the country
OF destination; and any article subject by
the laws of either country to customs duty
or to cOntiscati0n shall, when received III
the mails from the other. be treated in ae-
c0rdance with the laws of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE VI.
The two Post Departments may by mu-
tuaI agreement, provide for the transmits
sion of registered articles in the mails ex-
changed between the two countries.
The register fee of each article shall be
ten cents in the United States and one
real in Ecuador
ARTICLE XII.
The two Post Departments shall settle,
by agreement between them, all measures
Of detail and Arrangement required to carry
this convention into execution and may
modify the same in like manner. from time
to time, as the eXlgenGes of the service may
require. Articles may also, BY mutual con
sent, be amended, added, or suppressed,
according to the requirements of the ser
vice, without resembling or otherwise alter
ing or impairing any other Of the articles Of
this convention.
ARTICLE XIII.
This convention shall take effect from the
date of the exchange OF notifications, and
shall continue in force until annullad by
mutual consent, or until one year from tho
date Of notice given by one Of the two de-
partments to the other of its desire to ter
inmate the same.
ARTICLE XIV.
This convention shall be approved and
ratified in the manner and form prescribed
by the constitution and laws Of each OF the
high contracting parties, and the exchange
Of Publications shall be made at Wash
ington six months after the last ratification,
or sooner, if possible.
Done in duplicate, at the city of Wash
ington, this ninth day Of May, in the year
of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred
and seyenty-one.
JOHN A. j. CRESWRLL,
Postmaster General of the United States
ANTONIO FLORES.
1 hereby approve the atoregoing con7en-
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, May 9, 1871.