Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-14
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
First Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

In conformity to the requirements of the pre-
ceeding paragraph, table marked A IS hereun-
to annexed, enumerating the countries with
which, and specifying the terms and conditions
on which, Ecuador may exchange correspond
ence by way of the United States.
Correspondence of the class must be accom-
panied by letter bill from the dispatching ex-
change Office of Ecuador specifying the amount
due thereon to the United States, and the re-
ceiving exchange Office of the United States
shall return by next post to such dispatching
exchange Office an acknowledgment of receipt
and verifcation thereof which letter bills and
Acknowledgements of receipt shall be in conform
ity to the models B and c. hereunto annexed,
and shall serve as vouchers in the settlement of
the accounts
The accounts to be kept between the two Post
Departments upon this class of correspondence
shall be stated quarterly, transmitted and ver-
fed as speedily as practicable; and the amounts
found due shall be paid promptly to the United
spective Post Departments may from time to
time prescribe. Such quarterly statement shall
be prepared by the United States effice and
shall follow the form D, hereunto annexed.
ARTICLE I.
Letters originating in for eign countries and
addressed to the United States or Ecuador, re-
spectively, on which the foreign and interna.
tional postal charges are fully prepaid, shall
when forwarded in the mails of either country
tinaton free of charge.
ARTICLES.
The official correspondence between the two
governments, that of each government with it:
legation near the other, and of each legation
with its government, shall be conveyed to its
destination free of postage and with all the pre-
cautions which the two governments may fine
necessary for its inviolability.
ARTICLE g.
When in one of the two countries there is nc
legation of the other, the Thanking privilege o.
the vacant legation shall be transferred, in the
terms stipulated in the preceding article, to the
respective consulate or vice--consufate OF n eW
York or Guayaquil.
ARTICLE 10.
Neither Post Department shall be required
to deliver any article received in the mails the
circulation of which shall be prohibited by the
laws in force in the country of destination and
any article subject by the laws of either coun'
try to customs duty or to confscation shall, when
received in the mails from the other be treated
in accordance with the laws Of the receiving
country.
ARTICLE II.
The two Post Departments may, by mutual
ayr cement provide for the transmission of reg
iste red articles in the mails exchanged between
the two countries.
The register fee for each article shall be ter
Q0l cents in the United States and one D rea
in Ecuador.
ARTICLE II.
The two Post Departments shall settle, BY
agreement between them, all measures of detail
and arrangement required to carry this cow en-
ton into execution and may modify the same III
like manner, from time to time, as the exigen
cies of the service may require. Articles may
also, by mutual consent, be amended or sup
pressed, according to the requirements of thu
service, without resembling or otherwise alter
ing or impairing any other of the articles of THU
convention.
ARTICLE Is.
This convention shall take effect from thu
date of the exchange of ratifcations, and shall
continue in force until annulled by mutual con
sent or until one year from the date of notice
other of its desire to terminate the same
ARTICLE A.
This convention shall be approved and rati
fed in the manner and form prescribed by the
constitution and laws of each of tho high con-
tracing parties and the exchange of ratifca-
tions shall be made at Washington six months
after the last ratification or sooner if posi-
BILE.
day of May, in the year of our Lord on,
| thousand eight hundred and seventy one
IL. 81 JNO. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
H. 81 ANTONIA FLORES.
hereby approve the aforegoing convention
| and in testimony thereof have caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.