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office, and shall follow the form D, here
ARTICLE VII.

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| 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 TX.
When in one of the two countries there
is no legation of the other, the ranking
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 DO re-
Quired to deliver any article received IN the
mails the circulation of which shall be pro
hihited 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 eonfscatiOn shall, when received IN
the mails from the other, be treated in ac-
cordance with the laws of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE XII.
The two Post Departments may, by mu-
tual agreement, provide for the transmls-
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 eRe
real in Ecuador.
ARTICLE XII
The two Post Departments shall settle,
by agreement between them, all measures
Of detail aud arrangement required to carry
this convention into execution and may
modify she 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 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 annulled by
mutual consent, or until one year from the
date of notice given by one of the two de-
p4rtments 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 ratiications shall be made at Wash
ington six moRths 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 Ford one thousand eight hundred
and seVeuty-0ne.
~ " JOHN A. }. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
hereby approve the atoregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof I have
caused the seal OF the United States to b8
Us. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of Stats.
WAsHIsGToN, May 8, 1871.
[Translation4
Having aeeD and examined the RfoTege-
ing postal convention, which has been APP
proved by the legislative decree Of the first
of the present month, and in exercise of
the sixth attribute of the sixtieth article of
the constitution, have ratified it, as by che
present do ratify and declare it accepted, !
confirmed and obligatory in all and each Of
it's clauses and stipuations contained in said |
convention, soIemnly engaging and pledg
ing for its faithful and exact observance on
tho part Of Ecuador the national faith and
honor.
In faith of which have caused the ptes-
ent to be prepared, signed with my hand, |
sealed with the seal Of the republic, and |
oountersigned by the Secretary Of State for
Foreign Relations, at Quito, the thirtieth Ct |
Beptembey, eighteen hundred and seventy |
one. 6. GARCIA MORENO. |
FRAHCIsCo JAvIER LEON. ;
We, John &. }. Greswell, Postmaster Gen |
eral Of the United States. and Antonio !
FIOfes minister of Ecuador to she United !
States, certify that on this date We have |
proceeded to perform the exchange Of @ati- |
fCatiCna oS tho postal convention which |
was concluded between the United States !
and Ecuador at Washington, an she ninth !
day Of May, A. y. 1871.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washing
Ton, this sixth day of December, A. b. 1874.
JOHN &. J. CRE5WELL. !
PostrnastaF General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES
Convention for The regulation Of the postal
intercourse between the United States of
AmericS AID she kingdom of Denmark.
The Post Department of the United States
Of Americs and the Danish Post Depart
InenG have agreed upon employing the
steamers in regular service between their
territories, as veil as the steamers engaged
between Hamburg and Bremen on the enc
side and american ports on the other in
order 70 establish an immediate exchange
Of mails, and baVee fuY that purpose. CON
sented to che following articles:
ARTICLE, 3.
There shall be an immediate exchange Of
between the SUniied States
Of America and Denmark by means of che
said steamers, and this correspondence shall
embrace letters, newspapers, book packets,
orints of all kinds comprising maps, plans.
sngr&vings. drawings, photographs, litho
gr8phe. and all other ike productions of
mechanical processes, sheets of music, etc.)
and patterns or samples of merchandise;
Ind such correspondence may be exchanged,
Ehether originating in either of the said
countries, or originating in countries 20
Rhich these may respectively serse az ia
.srmediarieS.
ARTICLE II.
Tho exchange of correspondence email
AXE place between the p0gtottices 60 be
hereafter designated by the two post depart
henca; but either of the two offices SO desig
lated may at any time be discontinued, and
'thegE established by mutual consento
ARTICLE uP.
The Shifted States office shall make its
,wn arrangements for the dispatch Of its
nails to Denmark, and in like manner the |
,fice OF Denmark shall make its own ar
angements for the dispatch of its mails to
he United States The mails shall be re-
,iprocaIly forwarded by the regular Soutes
f communication herein before mentioned. !
md each office shall, at it's own cost, pay |
he expense of the Intermediate Transports