New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-21

| 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 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-
| quired 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 c0nfiscation shall, when received in
| the mails from the other, be treated in &C.
| cordance with the laws of the receiving
| country.
ARTICLE xf.
The two Post Departments may, by fnu-
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 ratifcations 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 it's desire to ter
inmate the same.
ARTICLE XIV.
Done in duplicate. at the city of Wash
y y
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seyenty-One.
JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
ANTONIO FLORES.
l hereby approve the atoregoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof | have
caused the seal Of the United States to be
affixed.
US. GRANT.
. By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of Statco
WASHINGTON May 9, 1871
A PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention between the United States and
the German Empire respecting Consuls
and trademarks, signed December IL,
1871; exchanged April %, 1872; proclaimed
June l, 1872.
WHEREAS, & convention between
she United States of America and
the German Empire, relating to the
rights, privileges, immunities and
duties Of Consuls, and to the pro
lection of trademarks, was signed at Ber-
lin on the eleventh day of December, in
the year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-ope, by their gespec-
tive plenipetentiaries;
And whereas protocol thereto was signed
by the said plenipotentiaries on the twenty
ninth day of April last; which convention
and protocol. in the English and German
languages are, word for word, as follows:
The President of the United States of
America, and his majesty the Emperor of
Germany, King of Prussia, in the name of
The German Empire, led by the wish to de-
fine the rights, privileges, immunities and
duties Of the respective consular agents,
have agreed upon the conclusion of con-
sular convention and for that purpose have
appointed their plenipotentiaries, namely:
The President of the Emitted States of
America, George Bancroft, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from
the said States, near his majesty the Empe-
Tor of Germany; his majesty the Emperor
of Germany, King of Prussia, Bernard
KONG, his Privy Councillor of Legation
who have agreed to and signed the follow
ing articles
ARTICLE I.
Each Of the contracting parties agrees to
receive from tue other Consnls General Con
snls, Vice COnsuls and Consular Agents. in all
its ports, cities and places, except those
where it may not be convenient to recognize
such officers This reservation, however,
shall not apply TO one of the contracting
parties without also applying to every other
power.
ARTICLE II.
The Consuls General, Consuls, Vice Con-
suls, or Consular Agents shall be reciprocally
received and recognized, on the presenta-
ton OF their commissions, in the forms
established in their respective countries.
The necessary exequatur for the exercise of
their functions shall be furnished to them
free of charge, and, on the exhibition of
this instrument, they shall be admitted at
once, and without difficulty, by the terrific
rial authorities, federal, State or communal,
Judicial or executive, of the ports, cities,
and places of their residence and district.
to the enjoyment Of the prerogatives re-
ciprocally granted. The government that
furnishes the exequatur reserves the right
10 withdraw the same on a statement of the
reasons tor which it has thought proper to
do 500
ARTICLE III.
The respective Consuls General, Consuls,
Elce-COnsuls, or Consular Agents, as well
as their chancellOrs and secretaries, shall
enjoy in the two countries all privileges,
exemptions and immunities which have
been granted, or may in future be
granted, to the agents of the same
rank Of the most favored nation. Consular |
officers, not being citizens of the country
where they are accredited shall enjoy, in |
the country of their residence, personal |
immunity from arrest or Imprisonment, ex- |
cept il the case Of crimes, exemption from |
military billetings and contributions, from |
service of every sort, and other |
public duties, and from all direct or per-
sonal or sumptuary taxes, duties and con-
whether Federal, State, or mu-
nicipal. II. however, the said consular off
GERS are or become owners of property in
the country in which they reside, or engage
IN commerce, they shall be subject to the |