Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-12
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session OF the Forty
First Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.I
POSTAL CONVENTION
BETWEEN THE

POS1 AL CON YENIION
BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND
THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR.
The undersigned, John A. j. Creswell, Post
master General of the Uuited States of America,
in virtue of the powers vested in him by law,
and Antonio, Flores, minister of the Republic
of Ecuador at Washington, in the name of his
government, and by virtue of the powers
which he has formally presented to this effect,
have agreed upon the following articles to wit ::
ARTICLE 1.
An exchange of mails shall hereafter take
place between the United States of America and
the Republic of Ecuador, by the ordinary
means of communication via the Isthmus of
Panama the Government of the United States
to be at the expense of the transportation there
of between New York and Panama, and San
Francisco and Panama, so long as direct ser
vice by United States steamers, including the
Isthmus transit, is maintained under existing
conditions and the government of Ecuador to
be at the expense of the transportation thereof
between Panama and Ecuador so long as the
present or other similar arrangement for the
ocean mail service between Panama and Ecua-
dor is continued. The correspondence. so ex-
changed shall comprise:
/. Letters and manuscripts subject by the
laws of either country to letter rate of postage.
z Newspapers and prints of all kinds, in
sheets, in pamphlets, and in books, sheets of
music, engravings, autographs, photographs
drawings, maps and plans, and such correspon-
dence may be exchanged, whether originating
in either of said countries and destined for the
other, or originating in or destined for foreign
countries to which they may respectively serve
as intermediates.
ARTICLE2
New York and San Francisco shall be the
offices of exchange on the side OF the United
States, and Guayaquil and Mania shall be the
offices of exchange on the side of Ecuador, for
all mails transmitted between the two countries
under this arrangement and all mail matter
transmitted in either direction between the re-
spective Offices of exchange shall be forwarded
in closed bags or pouches, under seal, addressed
to the corresponding exchange office, and the
mails SO dispatched from either country to the
other shall be forwarded to the United States
consul and resident mail agent ut Panama, who
is hereby designated as the agent of the two
governments for receiving the bags or pouches
at that port from either direction, and for dis
patching the same to their respective ultimate
destinations.
The two Post Departments may, at any time,
discontinue either of said offices of exchange or
establish Others
ARTICLE 8.
The standard weight for the single rate of
postage and rule of progression shall be:
/. For letters, or manuscripts subject by law
to letter rate of postage one-hnlf % ounce, (av-
ordupois.)
. 4. OF al OLner correspondence mentioned III
the second paragraph of the first article, that
which each country shall adopt for the mails
which it dispatches to the other, adapted to the
convenience and habits of its interior admins
tration but each country shall give notice to
the other of the standard weight it adopts, and
stated by the dispatchjng exchange office shall
always be expected, except in cases of manifest
error. s'a
ARTICLE4.
No accounts shall be kept between the Post
Office Departments of the two countries on the
ed, exchanged between them; but each country
shall levy, collect and retain to its own use the
following postal charges, viz:
l. The postage to be charged and collected in
the United States on each letter, or manuscript
subject to letter postage, mailed in the United
States, and addressed to any place in the Repub-
lie of Ecuador, shall be twenty COZ cents,
United States currency, per each weight of half
an ounce or fraction of half an ounce; and the
postage to be charged and collected in Ecuador
on each latter, or manuscript subject to letter
postage, mailed in Ecuador and addressed to
any place in the United States of America,
shall be two (2) reals, or the fifth part of dol
lar, (hard, Ecuador currency, the same to be
in each case in full of all charges whatever to
the place of destination in either country. Eth
er country, however, is at liberty to reduce this
charge but not to increase il without the pre-
vious assent of the other.
2 On all other correspondence mentioned in
the second paragraph of the first article thelPOst
Departments of the United States and Ecuador
may respectively levy, collect, and retain to
their separate and exclusive use such rates of
postage adapted to their interior administration
and to the cost of sea transportation as they shall
deem advisable. But each office shall give no
tice to the other of the rates it adopts, and of
any subsequent change thereof.
Newspapers and other correspondence of the
class referred to in the preceding paragraph
shall be sent in narrow bands or covers, open
at the sides or ends, so that they may be easily
examined; and packages Of such i, correspond
of each country in regard to their liability to
paw customs duty, if containing dutiable goods.
or to be rated with letter postage when contain