New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-14
OFFICIA AL.
TREATIES AND PROCLAHdATtoNs.

Postal Convention between the OHlteu
States of America and the Republic OF
Ecuador. :,
The undersigned. John A. j. Creswell,
Postmaster General of the United States of
America. in virtue of the powers vested in
him nv 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 thereof between New
York and Panama, San Francisco and
Panama, so long as direct service by
United States steamers, including the
Isthmus transit, Is maintained under exist
ing conditions, aud the government of
Ecuador to be at the expense of the trans
portion thereof between Panama and
Ecuador so long as the present or other
similar arrangement for the ocean mail ser
vice between Panama and Ecuador is con-
tinued. The correspondence 50 exchanged
shall comprise:
l. Letters and manuscripts subject by the
laws Of either country to letter rate of post
age.
.. Newspapers and prints Of all kinds,
i'll sheets, in pamphlets, and IN books, sheets
of music, engrayings, autographs, photo
graphs, drawings, maps and plans, and such
correspondence 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.
ARTICLE II.
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 be-
tween the two countries under this arrange
meat and all mail matter transmitted in
either direction between the respective Of
fees of exchange shall be forwarded in
closed bags or pouches, under seal, ad-
dressed to the corresponding exchange Of
fee, and the mails so dispatched from
either country to the other shall be for
warded to the United States consul and
resident mail agent at Panama, who is here
by designated as the agent of the two gov
ernments for receiving the bags or pouches
at that port from either direction, and lot
dispatohing the same to their respective ul-
innate destinations.
The two Post Departments may, at any
time, discontinue either of said offices of ex-
change or establish others.
ARTICLE III.
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-half
ounce (avoirdupois).
9 For all other correspondence men
toned in 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 hab-
it's of its interior administration; but each
country shall give notice to the other of the
standard weight it adopts, and Of any sub
seuuent change thereof. The weight stated
by the dispatching exchange office shall
always be accepted, except In cases OF
manifest error.
ARTICLE ".
No accounts shall be kept between the
Postotfice Departments of the two countries
on the international correspondence, writ
ten or printed, exchanged between them;
but each country shall levy, collect and re-
tain to its own use the following postal
charges, viz:
|. The postage TO be charged and col
lected 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 Republic of Ecuador,
shall be twenty cents, United States
currency, per each weight of half an ounce
or fraction of half an ounce; and the post
age to be charged and collected in Ecuador
on each letter or manuscript subject to let
ter postage, mailed in Ecuador and ad-
dressed TO any place in the United States of
America, shall be two reals, or the fifth
part of dollar (hardl, Ecuador currency,
the same to be in each case in full of all
oh no n tha nlapa Of
in either country. Either country, however,
is at liberty to reduce this charge, but not
to increase it without the previous assent OF
the other.
9. On all other correspondence mentioned
in the second paragraph of the first article
the Post 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 ad-
yisable But each Office shall give notice 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 para
graph shall be sent in narrow bands or
covers, open at the sides or ends, SO that
that they may be easily examined and
packages of such correspondence shall be
country ia regard to their liability to pay
customs duty, if containing dutiable goods,
or to be rated with letter postage when
containing written matter, or for any other
cause specified in said laws and regulations.
ARTICLE V.
Letters, and other communications in
manuscript, which, from any cause, can not
be delivered to their address, after the ex-
piration of proper period to effect their de-
livery, shall be reciprOcally returned every
month, unopened and without charge, to
the POstotfice Department of the dispatch
ing country; but newspapers, and all other
articles of printed matter, shall not be re-
turned, but remain at the disposal of the
receiving Office.
Letters enormously transmitted, or
wrongly addressed. shall be promptly re-
turned to the dispatching office without
charge.
The Post Department Of the United
States shall establish, in conformity with
the arrangements in force at the time, the
conditions upon which the Post Depart
ment of Ecuador may exchange, in open
mails, the correspondence originating in
Ecuador and destined for countries to which
the United States may serve as an interme-
diary; but such correspondence shall only
be charged with the nterna tional postage
established by this convention, augmented
by the postage rates in force between the
United States and the country of destina-
ton, and any other tax for exterior service.
The Post Department the United States
shall furnish the Post Department of Ecua-
dor with list stating the foreign countries
to which the foreign postage and the
amounts thereof must be absolutely pre-.
paid, or can be LETT unpaid, and shall mOdi-
fy such list from time to time, as the ext
gencies of its foreign postal service may re.
quire.
In con formity to the requirements OF the
preceding paragraph, a table marked A is
hereunto annexed, enumerating the coun-
tries with which and snecifYing the tarms