New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-11

| transmitted and verified as speedily as
practeable; and the amounts found due
shall be paid promptly to the United States
office, under such r. 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 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 10 its destination free of postage
and with all the precautions which the two
governments may find necessary for its in
volatility and security.
ARTICLE TX.
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
aquil,
ARTICLE x.
Neither Post Department shall be re-
/ CURED 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 confscation shall, when received in
| the mails from the other, be treated in
| cordance with the laws of the receiving
| country.
ARTICLE XT.
| 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 eXIgencies 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 inlpairing any other a the articles of
fhis convention.
ARTICLE XIII
This convention shall take effect from the |
date of the exchange of ratifcatiOns and |
shall continue in force until annuIled by |
mutual consent or until one year from the |
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
JOHN A. j. CREsWELL,
Postmaster General Of the United States
ANTONIO FLORES.
l hereby approve tile aforegoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof | have
caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
L. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, May 9, 1871.
Translation.
Having seen and examined the afOrego- |
ing postal convention, which has been aD-
proved by the legislative decree of the first
Of the present month, and in exercise OF
the sixth attribute of the sixtipth article of
the constitution have ratified it, as by the
present | do ratifY and declare it accepted,
confirmed and obligatory in all and each of
is clauses and stipuatiOns contained in said l
solemnly engaging and pledg {
ng FOR its faithful and exact observance on {
5he part Of Ecuador the national faith and {
lUnOr.
In faith of which have caused the pres
mt to be prepared, signed with my hand
sealed with the seal of the republic, aud
10y the Secretary Of State for
Foreign Relations, at Quito, the thirtieth CT Z
eighteen hundred and seventy
)ne. G. GARCIA MORENO
FRANCISCO JAYIER LEON. I
We, John A. j. CrPswelI, Postmaster Gen L
'ral Of the United States, and Antonio d
flores, minister Of Ecuador to the United I
states, certify that on this date we have :
to perform the exchange of rati- I
ications of the postal convention which o
vas concluded between the United States
md Ecuador at Washington, on the ninth ;
lay Of May, A. ID. 1871.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washing l.
on, this sixth day Of December, A. D. 1871. II
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL, U
Postmaster General of the United States, r
ANTONIO FLORES. Il
Convention for the regulation Of the postal e
intercourse between the United States of U
America and the kingdom of Denmar9. It
The Post Department of the United States
America and the Danish Post Depart
rent have agreed upon employing the
Gamers in regular service between their b.
,rritories, as well as the steamers engaged III
ntween Hamburg and Bremen on the one cl
de, and American ports on the other in S
der to establish an immediate exchange Il
mails, and have, tor that purpose con. n
nted to the following articles: in
ARTICLE I. "
There Shall be an immediate exchange Of m
between tho United States p'
America and Denmark by means of the as
nd steamers, and his correspondence shall ch
nbrace letters, newspapers, book packets.
ints Of all kinds comprising mans. plans CT
lgraYhgS, drawings, photographs, lithO- lei
apis. and al other like productions OF In
echanical processes. sheets ofmusic, etc.l. an
I'd patterns or samples of merchandise: as
ut such correspondence may be exchanged III
neither originating in either of rhe said tn
untries, Of originating. in countries to wi
h1eh these may respectively serve as in gu
ymedia1ies.
ARTICLE II.
The exchange of correspondence Snail OF
Ike place between the postotcps 10 be ~
reattcr designated by the two post depart. ol
Ant- but either of the two offices 20 dpsig- pa
ted may at any time be discontinued. and
hers established by mutua! consent OF
ARTICLE III 9 9I
Ghr NuitrA States office s9aio Yn,pa Us ~