New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-06

| Post Departments upon this class OF cor
respondence- shall be stated quarterly
| transmitted and verified as speedily as
| practicable; and the amounts found due
| 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 fulIy
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 it's 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 franling
=
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-
quired to deliver any article received i'll 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 contiac&tiOn 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 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 impairing any other of the articles Of |
phIs convention.
ARTICLE NIIB.
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 |
late of notice given by one Of the two de-
to the other Of its desire to ter
inmate the same.
ARTICLE XIV.
This convention shall be approved and
'atifed in the manner and form prescribed
Jy the constitution and laws Of each Of the
high contracting parties, and the exchange
II notifications shall be made at Wash
ngtoD six months after the last ratification,
II sooner, if possible.
Done in duplicate, at the city of Wash
ngtOn, this ninth day Of May in the year
# our Lord one thousand eight hundred
ind seventy-0ne.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELE,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
| hereby approve the atoregoing conven-
ion, and in testimony thereof I have
aused the seal of the United States to be
fixed.
q. S. CRANE.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary OF States
WASHINGTON. May 9, 1871.