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 586 CONVENTION WITH NEW GRANADA. 1844. ARTICLE V. payment {0, The Consul, or other agent, of the United States residing at Panama ihctrnnsrnission shall be the person whose duty it is to pay for the carriage of the bag, °f ‘h° ‘““1• across the Isthmus, as well when he receives it from the Post_Office at Panama alter it has crossed the Isthmus, as when he delivers it to the said Post Office to be sent to Chagres or Port-Bello. ARTICLE VI. Packets to The said packet vessels which shall or may be established, will bring to °°"Yl°g°" md the ports of New Granada at which they may touch-—and will also take ffgilgo  from them to those of the United States-all official and private letters tries withont and newspapers, without any compensation whatever-—Granadran vessels °°mP°“S¤¤°¤· will be subject to the same conditions it, at any time, it may be thought advisable to contribute with them to the establishment of a line of packets between the ports of the United States and those of New Granada. ARTICLE VII. U, s, packets The packet vessels of war of the United States will also carry, free 3<>¤;*Y l¢¤•¤¤» of charge, all the official or private letters and newspapers, which may ,,0:; be delivered to them, from one port of New Granada to another at nada to annum- which they may touch. wi¢h¤¤¢<=h¤rg¤· ARTICLE VIII. _Relstivetotho If the Government of the United States should think fit to employ :m‘;,‘}°y the coals which may be brought for the use of such vessels shall then mmm, enjoy, in the Granadian ports, the same exemptions, as to introduction and deposite, which may have been granted in said ports to the coals destined for the steamers of any other power. ARTICLE IX. Advantages The Republics of the United States and New Granada, being dearisingfromehis sirous of avoiding all interpretations, contrary to their intentions, de- °°""°“i‘°“· ‘° clare, that any advantage, or advantages that one or the other power be consideredas. . . . ’ ,,°mp,m,,,,;,m may enjoy, from the foregoing stipulations, are and ought to be underfor the oblige- stood in virtue and as in compensation of the obligations they have just “°“’· contracted in the present postal convention. ARTICLE X. whcmhc con, For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the present ranting_ shall go convention as soon as possible, the two high contracting parties have ““° ° °°‘· agreed, that said provisions shall begin to be enforced immediately after the Governor of the Province of Panama has official knowledge that the present convention has been ratified by the Government of New Granada, and that the Consul, or other agent, of the United States shall have communicated to him that it has been also ratified by the Government of that Republic. ARTICLE XI. D,,,,,,,,,,, Ohh, The present convention shall remain in force and vigor for the ter convention. of eight years, to be counted from the day on which the exchange oi the ratitications may be made——which shall take place in Bogota as soon as possible-—and shall continue in the same force and vigor for another term of four years more; and so on, always for another term of four yours more, until one of the two Governments shall give the other six. m·~nths" notice of its wish that the same shall terminate.
 * ¤¤{>d¤=;l¤°¤’;d¤¥ steamers, as packets, between New Grenada and the said United States,