New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-07

| Post Departments upon this class OF cor
| respOndence shall be stated quarterly
| transmitted and verified as speedily as
practicable, and the amounts found due
shall be paid promptly to the United states
| office. under such II gulatIons as the respect
| i've Post Departments may from time TO
| time prescribe. Such quarterly statement
shall be- prepared BY the United States
Office and shall follow the form ID heTc-
| unto aDGeZed.
| aR-oCiE 81.
iettere originating in foreign countries
and addressed to the United States or
Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign
and international postal charges are Il-E
| prepaid, shall, when forwarded ID the mails
| Of either country 70 the ether, be Delivered
IN the country of destination free o cnaIgo'
ARTICLE SII;.
The s7iCsa3 correspondence De"Teen the
| two governments, that OF each goVefnmenC
| with It's legation near the other. anu o.
each legation with ITS government, sna.t oe
| conveved to It's destination free OF postage
and With all The precautions WHICH the tive
governments may find necessary :5S otS IN
volatility and security.
ARTICLE X.
When II one Of the two counties there
is no legation Of the other, the tGanlCng
privilege Of the vacant legation shall be
transferred, in the terms stipulated IN the
preceding article 70 the respective consul
ate or ice consulate at New York %: Quay
aquli-
ARTICLE 4
Neither Post Department: shsls % re
QUired TO deliver any article received n the
mails the circulation of which shall be pro
hibted by the laws in force in the country
OF destinations and any article subject by
the laws Of either country to customs duty
or to COnhscation shall, when received IN
the mats from the other, be treated a &C
cordance with the laws Of the receiving
country
ARTICLE XI.
The two Pos. Departments may. ~ mil-
tUal agreement, provide for the transmits
siou OF registered articles in the mails eX-
changed between the two countries.
The register fee of each article shall De
ten cents IN the United States and one
real Id 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
70 time, AZ the eXIgencteB of the service may
require Articles may also, by mutual con
sent, be amended, added, or suppressed,
acquiring " ts1c AcNi uilEtI4EntS VI LliC SCL-
vice, without resembling or otherwise alter
ing or imPairing any other Of the articl9e Of
tfl;3 convention.
ARTICLE NIII-
THIS convention shall take effect from the
date of the exchange of notifications, and
shall continue in force until annulled by
mutual consent, Or until one year from the
date Of notice given by one Of the two de-
partmonts to the other of it's desire to ter
inmate the same.
ARTICLE XIV.
This convention shaIBbe 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 notifications shall be made az Wash |
ingt0D ak months after the last ratification,
or sooner, if possible.
Done in duplicate, at the City OF Wa5ho
inGtUn, this ninth day Of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seyeuty-one.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL.
Postmaster General Of the United States |
ANTONIO FLORES.
hereby approve the atoregoins coDsen.
ton. and II testimony thereo. ] have
caused the sea. o. the CnioeG States TO be
afi Eed.
/ 5. GRANT.
by the President:
UAMiLT0H FISH. u
Secretary Of STATE
NT..HI>CG. May .. 1874