New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-13
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hereunto annexed, enumersting the CON-
tries with which, and specifying the tar Tan,
and conditions on which, Ecuador ne1r a on9
change correspondence by way of tho
United States. o
Correspondence of this class must he 40
eompanied by a letter bill from the fis
patching exchange office of Ecuador sron;
flying the amount due thereon to the United
States, and the receiving exchange Office of
the United States shall return bv next MOTT VI
to such dispatching exchange Office an AZ.
acknowledgement of receipt and yerifc8+inn
thereof, which letter bills and acknowi
edgments Of receipt shall be in eonforrn;tn
to the models b and G, hereunto anpnvad
and shall serve as vouchers in the settIas
ment Of the accounts.
The accounts to be kept between the +gv
Post Departments upon this class Of cor.
respondance shall be stated ouarterII
transmitted and verified as speedily a.
practicable; and the amounts found dns
shall be paid promptly to the United States
office. under such regulations 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 D, here
unto annexed.
ARTICLE VII.
Letters originating in foreign countries
and addressed to the United States or
Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign
and international postal charges are tuliv
prepaid, shall when forwarded in the mails
of either country to the other, be delivered
in the country of destination free of charge
ARTICLE VII.
The official correspondence between The
two governments, that of each governments
with its legation near the other, and Of
each legation with its government, shall be
conveyed to its destination free of pos tage
and with all the precautions which the TWO
government is may find necessary for its in
volatility and security.
ARTICLE TX.
When ia one of the two countries there
is no legation of the other, the franking
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.
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ARTICLE Z.
Neitheg Post Departments shall be re-
quired to deliver any article received in the
mails the circulation of which shall be pro-
hibited by the laws in force in the country
of destination; and any article subject by
the laws of either country tooeustoms duty
or to confscation shall, when received in
the mails from the other, be treated in az
cordance with the laws of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE XII.
The two Post Departments may, by mu-
tual 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 ex1gencies 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 annulied by
mutual consent, or until one year from the
date of notice given by one of the two de-
partments to the other Of it's desire TO ter-
inmate the same.
ARTICLE XIV
This convention shall be approved ana
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 at Wash
ingtOn six months after the last ratification,
or sooner, if possible.
Done III duplicate, at the city of Wash
lngt0n, this ninth day Of May, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Beventy-One.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL
Postmaster General of the United States
ANTONIO FLORES.
] hereby apnrove tba a4oraoo;nc oorvor-
ton. ana in testima ION tbsTents II have
e=r1sed The seal of the Tinted States IN no
ltfxad
IT G GRANT
Bp the President.
HAarTrToN FISH
Secretary Of State.
W4sHTEgToN. NAV 9. 1871.
Translation
Having seen and examined the afgrego-
no postal convention, which has been an
# the present month, and in exercise OF
he sixth attribute of the sixtieth article OF
he constitution, have ratified it, as by the
present 10 5aSl1y ahd oeciaT arr IL accepted,
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