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Office, and shall follow the form D, here

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 fully
prepaid, shall, when forwarded in the mails
of either country to the other, be delivered
in the country Of destination free of charge.
ARTICLE VIII.
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 for its in
volatility and security.
ARTICLE *.
When in 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
Rquil.
ARTICLE x.
Neither Post Department 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 to customs duty
or to coniscation shall when received in
the mails from the other, be treated in ao-
cOrdance with the laws Of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE XI.
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 exlgenoies 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 ratifcations, 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-
partments to the other of it's 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 ratifcations 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 seventy-one.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General Of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
1 hereby approve the atoregong conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof l 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.