New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-10

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
ana international postal charges are 1uiIy
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
governmeI IS 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 ranking
privilege of the vacant legation shall be
transferred, in the terms stipulated in the
ate or vice consulate at New York or Quay
aquile
ARTICLE Y.
Neither Post Department shall be re-
quired to deliver any article received in the
mails the circulation of which shall be pro
hibited by th9 laws in force in the country
of destination; and any article subject by
the laws of either country to customs duty
or to contiscation shall, when received in
the mails from the other, be treated in ac-
cOrdance with the laws Of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE XL.
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
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-
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 notifications 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 Gay of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-Onn.
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States
ANTONIO FLORES.
I hereby approve the atoregoing 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,