POSTAL CONVENTION- ECUADOR. MAY 9, 1871. 881 States may serve as an intermediary; but such correspondence shall only via the United bg charged with the international postage established by this convention, SWM- augmented by the postage rates in force between the United States and the conmtry of destination, and any other tax for exterior service. The Post Department of the United States shall furnish the Post De- List of counpgrtment of Ecuador with a list stating the foreign countries to which the *'l°° *> which foreign postage and the amounts thereof must be absolutely pre-paid, or g:;;?; °§°t b° can be left unpaid, and shall modify such list from time to time, as the ’ l exigencies of its foreign postal service may require. In conformity to the requirements of the preceding paragraph, a table Table A. marked A is hereunto annexed, enumerating the countries with which, and $* 1*-884- specifying the terms and conditions on which, Ecuador may exchange correspondence by way of the United States. Correspondence of this class must be accompanied by a letter-bill from Letter—bi11s, and the dispatching exchange office of Ecuador, specifying the amount due to ¤*¤°¤ what thereon to the United States, and the receiving exchange office of the United States shall return by next post to such dispatching exchange office an acknowledgment of receipt and verification thereon which letterbills and acknowledgments of receipt shall be in conformity to the models pom, 0;, B and C, hereunto annexed, and shall serve as vouchers in the settlement See pp. 885, 886. of the accounts. The accounts to be kept between the two Post Departments upon this Accounts or class of correspondence shall be stated quarterly, transmitted and verified *l“:£¤$¤» ar? as speedily as practicable; and the amounts found due shall be paid 2,; qu y' promptly to the United States office, under such regulations as the respective Post Departments may from time to time prescribe. Such quarterly F°¤¤• statement shall be prepared by the United States office, and shall follow SMP- 886- the form D, hereunto annexed. Anucmt VII. Letters originating in foreign countries and addressed to the United Prepaid letr States or Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign and international xfnigz €‘;"{:§" postal charges are fully prepaid, shall, when forwarded in the mails of (1,,;;,,,,,,,; wm,- either country to the other, be delivered in the country of destination free gvigglitgzrgi, of charge. ’ Arrrrcnn VIII. The official correspondence between the two governments, that of each omeislecnegovernment with its legation near the other, and of each legation with its g;‘;*d°°°° *° l’° government, shall be conveyed to its destination free of postage and with all the precautions which the two governments may End necessary for its inviolability and security. Anrronm IX. When in one of the two countries there is no legation of the other, theFmkgng pm. fizmking privilege of the vacant legation shall be transferred, in the terms ;l;sl¢i;*l]:gaI;s¤· stipulated in the preceding article, to the respective consulate or VICG-COH- snlate at New York or Guayaquil. Anrrcma X. Neither Post Department shall be required to deliver any article re- Neither wm;. ceived in the mails the circulation of which shall be prohibited by the :;3‘;i{0":l2t::;n_°_ laws in force in the country of destination; and any article subject by the ,,;,,,,,,,1 by m laws of either country to customs duty or to confiscation shall, when re- la»;s;:rttgc(i¤3 céived in the mails from the other, be treated in accordance with the laws gg5H8cm0g of the receiving country. von. xvu. '.1:BEAT•—-56
