New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-21

| 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 exlgencies 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 Publications, and
shall continue in force until annulIed 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 xI$.
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 day of May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seyenty-One.
JOHN A. 8. CRESWELH,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
Z hereby approve the aforegoing conven.
ton, and in testimony thereof l have
caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
g.. GRANT.
By The President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of Statco
WASHINGTON. May 9, 1871.
lTranslaton.i
Having seen and examined the aforepo.
ing postal convention, which has been an.
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, I have ratified it, as by the
present do ratify and declare it accepted.
confirmed and obligatory in all and each Of
its clauses and stipulations contained in said
convention, solemnlV engaging and pledg
ing FOR its faithful and exact observance on
the part of Ecuador the national faith and
honor.
In faith Of which I have caused the pres.
ent to be prepared, signed with my hand,
sealed with the seal of the republic, and
coantersigned by the Secretary of State for
Foreign Relations, at Quito, the thirtieth Ct
September eighteen hundred aud seventy.
one. G. GARCIA MORENO.
FRANCISCO JAvIER LEON.
We, John A. j Cresweil, Postmaster Gen.
eral of the United States, and Antonio
Flores, minister Of Ecuador to the United
States, certify that on this date we have
proceeded to perform the exchange of rati
fcations Of the postal convention which
was concluded between the United States
and Ecuador at Washington, Oh the ninth
day of May, a. .. 1871.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washing.
ton, this sixth day of December, A. d. 1871. |
JOHN A. J. CRESWELL.
Postmaster General Of the United States. |
ANTONIO FLORES.
Convention for the regulation of the postal |
intercourse between the United States of |
America and the kingdom Of Denmark. |
The Post Department Of the United States
If America and the Danish Post Depart. !
nent have agreed upon employing the !
steamers IN regular service between their !
territories, as well as the steamers engaged
between Hamburg and Bremen on the one
lde, and American ports on the other, in
order to establish an immediate exchange
" mails, and have Tor that purpose con-
cnted to the following articles:
ARTICLE I.
There shall be an immediate exchange Of
correspondence between the United States
II America and Denmark by means of the
aid steamers, and this correspondence shall
mbrace letters, newspapers, book packets,
PRINTS OF all kinds comprising maps, plans,
ngravlngs, drawings. photographs, litho-
,raphs, and all other like productions of
Mechanical processes, sheets of music, etc.l,
nd patterns or samples of merchandise;
nd such correspondence may be exchanged,
whether originating in either of the said
0untrIes, OF originating in countries to
'hich these may respectively serve as in
ARTICLE II.
The exchange of correspondence shall
AXE place between the pOstOffices to be
GREATER designated by the two post depart
lents; but either OF the two offices so desio-
ated may at any time be discontinued, and |
theirs established by mutual consent.
ARTICLE III.
The United States Office shall make ifs
wn arrangements for the dispatch of its
alls to Denmark, and in like manner the
nee or Denmark shall make it's own ar
angements for the dispatch of it's mails to
le United States. The mails shall be re-
procally forwarded by the regular routes {
communication hereinbefore mentioned, l
Id each office shall, at its own cost, pay
10 expense of the intermediate transporta- {
on tsea and territorial) of the mails which
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at the cost, either in whole or in part, of G
9 international ocean and territorial
anslt of the closed mails exchanged in L
tn directions between the respective | u
9nuers SHALL upon application of either
ice, be first betrayed by that one OF the 6
% offices which shall have obtained from
Q Intermediates the most favorable pc
mary terms for such conveyance, and
y amount so advanced by one for or On =
count Of the other shall be promptly re-
bursed.
ARTICLE ". g
The postage on ordinary letters sent from a
United States to Denmark, or from Den | %
rk to the United States, shall be respec- 81
ely twelve shilling Cigsmont. OF seven p
It's for a single letter. 0t
he weight of q single letter shalt not eX.
d fifteen grammes.
'or every letter exceeding fifteen grammps "a
le 6Hdll o6 pale a single rate OF postage ~
every additional fifteen grammes OF =
otion Of fifteen grammeso The weigh'
ted by the dispatching office shall alwaye
accepted except in case OF 1nanites: oa
oro os
he maximum weight of letters shall be ca ca
) hundred and fifty grammeso -
ARTICLE W
he Prepayment Of postage on ordinary /
eEs shall be optional. II tbey shall be in