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 POSTAL CONVENTION WITH MEXICO. DEC. 11, 1861. 1101 ters, newspapers, printed pamphlets, or other printed matter, forwarded from the United States of America, or any of their possessions or Territories,. to any other possession or Territory of the United States of America, or to any foreign country, or from any foreign country, or possession or I`err¤tory of the United States of America, to the United States of America, their possessions or Territories. A mail agent of the United States of America shall be permitted to M¤il¤g¢¤ft<> accompany the closed mails in their transit. ¤°Q°mP¤¤>' The United States of America, On their part, engage to grant to the mms. United Mexican States the transit, in closed mails, free from any postave duties, imposts, detention, or examination whatever, through the Unitgd States of America, or any of their possessions or Territories, of letters, newspapers, printed pamphlets, or other printed matter, forwarded from the United Mexican States, or any of their possessions or territories, to any other Mexican possession or territory, or to any foreign country, or from any foreign country, or Mexican possession or territory, to the United Mexican States, their possessions or territories. A mail agent of Mexico shall be permitted to accompany the closed mails in their transit. ARTICLE VIII. The means of making the transit of closed mails, News of under-the stipulations of Article VII. of the present convention, shall be arranged between the General Post-Office Departments of the two arranged. countries, subject to the approbation of each government, respectively. ARTICLE IX. In case of the misfortune of war between the two na- _ Mail S¤rVi<>¢ tions, the mail service of the two Post-Offices shall continue, without m MSB °f W"' impediment or molestation, until six weeks after a notification shall have been made on the part of either of the two governments and delivered to the other that the service is to be discontinued; and in such case the mail packets of the two countries shall be permitted to return freely and under special protection to their respective ports. AIKTICLE X. The respective post-office regulations and rates of post- Detailed reguage of each of the contracting parties shall be communicated to, and all E;"t';si);*`;;iied_ matters of detail arising out of the stipulations of this convention shall ’ be settled between, the General Post-Office Departments of the two republics as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention. It is also agreed that the measures of detail referred to in this article H may be modsmay be modified by the two General Post-Otiice Departments whenever, ‘*d‘ by mutual consent, those departments shall have decided that such modifications would be beneficial to the post-office service of the two countries; and Mexico proposes, as soon as her means of internal transportation will permit, to reduce her present rates of inland postage. . · ARTICLE Xl. The present convention shall continue in force until it tiorglpg sggsgg shall be abrogated by the mutual consent of the two contracting parties, how long; or until one of them shall have given twelve months’ previous notice to the other of a desire to abrogate it. ARTICLE XII. This convention shall be ratified in conformity with to b° the Constitutions of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be ex- ml ° ' changed at the city of Mexico within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In witness whereof we, the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of the United Mexican States, have signed and sealed these presents. _ Done in the city of Mexico, on the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the eighty- sixth year of the independence of the United States of America, and in the forty-first of that of the United Mexican States. [L. S. THOMAS CORWIN. [L. S.} SEB’N LERDO DE TEJADA.