New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-03
Translation.

Having seen and examined the aforego
| ing postal convention, which has been an
proved by the legislative decree of the frs
of the present month, and in exercise o.
the sixth attribute of the sixtieth article o
the constitution, | have ratified it, as by the
present | do ratifY and declare it accepted
confirmed and obligatory in all and each of
its clauses and stipuIatiOns contained in sale
convention, solemnly engaging and pIedg
ing for its faithful and exact observance on
the part Of Ecuador the national faith and
honor.
In faith of which l have caused the pres
emit to be prepared, signed with my hand
scaled with the seal Of the republic, and
countersigned by the Secretary of State for
Foreign Relations, at Quito the thirtieth Ct
September, eighteen hundred and seventy
one. G. GARCIA MORENO.
FRANCISCO JAyIER LEON.
We, j Ohm A. J. Creswell, Postmaster Gen
eral Of the United States and Antonio
Flores, minister of Ecuador to the United
States, certify that on this date we have
proceeded to perform the exchange of rati-
iCations of the postal convention which
was concluded between the United States
and Ecuador at Washington, on the ninth
day Of May, A. D. 1871.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washing
ton, this sixth day of December A. D. 1871
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
Convention for the regulation of the postal
intercourse between the United States of
America and the kingdom Of Denmark.
The Post Department Of the United States
of America and the Danish Post Depart
mont have agreed upon employing the
steamers in regular service between their
territories as well as the steamers engaged
between Hamburg and Bremen on the one
side, and American ports on the other, in
order to establish an immediate exchange
of mails, and have, tor that purpose, con
scntod to the following articles;
ARTICLE I.
There shall be an immediate exchange of
correspondence between the United States
of America and Denmark by means of the
said steamers, and this correspondence shall
embrace letters, newspapers, book packets,
prints of all kinds comprising maps, plans,
engravings, drawings. photographs, litho-
graphs, and all other like productions Of
mechanical processes, sheets of music, etc. J,
and patterns or samples of merchandise;
and such correspondence may be exchanged,
whether originating in either of the said
which these may respectively serve as in
termediaries.
ARTICLE II.
The exchange of correspondence shall
take place between the postotfices to be
hereafter designated by the two post depart
ments; but either of the two offices so desig-
mated may at any time be discontinued, and
others established by mutual consent.
ARTICLE III.
The United States office shall make its
own arrangements for the dispatch of its
mails to Denmark, and in like manner the
office OF Denmark shall make its own ar
engagements for the dispatch of its mails to
the United States. The mails shall be re-
forwarded by the regular routes
OF communication hereinbefore mentioned,
and each Office shall, at its own cost, pay
the expense of the intermediate transporta-
ton (sea and teTritorial) of the mails which
1t dispatches to the other. 1t is also agreed
that the cost, either in whole or in part, of
the International ocean and territorial
transit of the closed mails exchanged in
both directions between the respective
frontiers shall, upon application OF either
office, be first betrayed by that one of the
two offices which shall have obtained from
the Intermediates the most favorable pe-
5uniary terms for such conveyance. and
any amount so advanced by one for or on
account of the other shall be promptly re-
mbursed.
ARTICLE ".
The postage on ordinary letters sent from
The United States to Denmark, or from Den
mark to the United States, shall be respeo-
lvely twelve shilling rigsmont, OF seven
cents fer single letter.
The weight Of single letter shall not ex-
'eed fifteen grammes.
For every letter exceeding fifteen grammes
mere saall De paid single rate Of postage |
or every additional fifteen grammes or |
raotion Of fifteen grammes. The weight |