388 monuments or marks being obliterated beyond the power of recognition, the lost site or sites shall be recovered by their recorded position relatively to the next neighbouring obliterated mark or marks. D. R. CAMERON, Major, R.A., Her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, United States' London, May 29, 1876. TREATY of Friendship and Commerce between Nicaragua and Salvador-Signed at San Salvador, March 17, 1868. [Ratifications exchanged at San Salvador, May 8, 1869.] His Excellency the President of the Republic of Salvador on the one side, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Nicaragua on the other, desiring to regulate, extend, and consolidate the commercial relations between the Republics of Salvador and Nicaragua, and to strengthen by this means the friendship existing between the two countries, have agreed to open negotiations for the conclusion of a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and for this purpose have appointed their Plenipotentiaries : His Excellency the President of the Republic of Salvador, Señor Dr. Don Gregorio Arbizú, Vice-President of the Republic and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Supreme Government; and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, Señor Licenciate Don José Salinas; Who, after having exchanged their full powers and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:ART. I. There shall be constant peace and sincere and perpetual friendship between the Republic of Salvador and the Republic of Nicaragua. II. Both Republics agree that in no case there shall be war, and that if a difference arise, the requisite explanations shall in the first instance be given, recourse being had eventually, failing mutual agreement, to the arbitration of the Government of some friendly nation. In the unfortunate event of any nation making war upon Salvador or Nicaragua, the two High Contracting Parties agree in the most absolute manner to enter into no offensive alliance, and in no way to furnish aid to the enemies of either of the two Republics. This, however, is not intended to prevent them from making defensive alliances with a view to the protection of their respective territories in case of invasion. III. In the case of a disagreement arising between other States of Central America, not being the present Contracting Parties, these, in common accord or separately, shall make tender of their good offices and mediation in order to maintain general harmony throughout this region. IV. In case of a question arising between either of the Contracting Governments and a foreign Power, the other shall tender its good offices, stimulating other States to do the same on their part, until the attainment of an equitable and satisfactory arrangement. This compromise shall take place when cognizance shall have been taken of the question, and the due information received as to its nature and circumstances. V. The subjects of Salvador and those of Nicaragua shall enjoy in each other's country the same civil rights as if they were natives, and shall be able to practise their various professions and businesses agreeably with the laws of their country of residence, without other conditions than the authenticity of their titles, papers, or diplomas (evidence) of identity of the person, and the proper permit of the Supreme Government. VI. Documents, academic diplomas, and public certificates of whatever nature granted in accordance with the laws of either of the two Republics, shall be equally valid in both, and be entitled to credit when presented in the necessary conditions. The Courts shall duly concede the judicial requisitions and other applications made to them in due form. VII. Persons guilty of homicide, arson, theft, robbery, forging money, seals or public documents, fraudulent bankruptcy, or defrauding legitimate creditors, rape, or violence, whose extradition may be demanded for crime committed in either of the contracting countries, and who may have sought refuge in the other, shall be delivered up, provided that the requisition be made in the prescribed form, and substantiate that the crime has been committed, and committed by the person demanded. It is understood that the judicial requisitions, applications, &c., whether for the extradition of criminals in the aforesaid cases or for the despatch of any other judicial matter, shall pass from the requisitioning Judge to the Supreme Court of Justice of the country whence the requisition proceeds; from the said tribunal to the Executive power, from this to the Executive power of the country of the Judge requisitioned, from the Executive power to the Supreme Court, and from the Tribunal to the Judge who has to grant the requisition or warrant; and this having been granted, shall be returned to the tribunal or judicature of its origin through the same institutions, but in inverse order to that above described, the signatures being verified in each case in the usual form. VIII. If political refugees should settle on the territory of one or other Republic, they shall enjoy its protection, yet care shall be taken that such protection be not turned to the injury of the country from which they proceed. IX. With regard to trade in natural and manufactured products between the two Republics, duties higher than 4 per cent. shall not be levied where they are consumed as has been customary, and the vessels of one or other shall be considered as of the country in the port of either, paying no extraordinary dues nor any higher than those to which the vessels of the country are subject. X. The citizens and subjects of either of the two Contracting Parties in the territories of the other shall have full freedom to acquire, possess, and dispose of by purchase, sale, donation, exchange, marriage contract, will, succession ab intestato, or other manner, all sorts of property which the laws of the respective countries permit their subjects to hold. Their heirs and representatives may succeed to and take possession of the property personally or through agents acting in their name, in the ordinary form of the law, in the same way as the citizens and subjects of the country; and in the absence of the heirs or representatives, the property shall be treated in the same manner as if the property belonged to a citizen or subject of the country under similar circumstances. In none of these cases shall they pay upon the value of the property other or increased duties, imposts, or charges than those which the citizens and subjects of the country pay. XI. The subjects of Salvador residing in the dominions of Nicaragua, and the Nicaraguans residing in the Republic of Salvador, shall be exempt from all obligatory military service, by sea or land, and from all forced loans, military exactions or requisitions; and under no pretext shall they be obliged to pay other or higher ordinary or extraordinary charges or imposts or taxes than those paid or hereafter to be paid by the citizens and subjects of the country. XII. Trade in cattle of all kinds shall be free from all duty and impost upon import and export between the two Republics, excepting only bulls, which shall be subject to the sole impost of 2 reals a head upon its introduction into either country, whether that be its final destination or it be only on its way to another State. XIII. The Contracting Governments promise to receive in their respective territories the Commissioners, Diplomatic and Consular Agents, whom each may find it expedient to accredit to the other, and shall receive and treat them agreeably with the rights and usage of nations. XIV. The present Treaty shall be obligatory in perpetuity in all that relates to peace and amity, and in the points referring to commerce and navigation shall remain in force for a term of eight years, reckoned from the day of the exchange of ratifications. Nevertheless, if neither party shall notify to the other a year before the expiration of the term of its validity its intention of terminating it, it shall continue binding upon both parties until the completion of a year from the date of such notification. XV. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the respective Legislatures at their first assembling, and the exchange shall take place in this city or in that of Managua, two months after the verification of the last ratification, for which both Governments shall give each other notice. In witness whercof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed duplicates in the city of San Salvador, the 17th day of the month of March, 1868. GREGORIO AR BIZ. POSTAL CONVENTION between the United States of America and the Colony of Queensland.—Signed at Brisbane, December 8, 1875, and at Washington, February 2, 1876. THE Undersigned, being thereunto duly authorized by their respective Governments, have agreed upon the following Articles, establishing and regulating the exchange of correspondence between the United States of America and the Colony of Queensland : ART. I. There shall be an exchange of correspondence between the United States of America and Queensland by means of the direct line of colonial mail-packets plying between San Francisco and New South Wales, as well as by such other means of direct mail steamship transportation between the United States and New South Wales as shall hereafter be established with the approval of the respective Post Departments of the countries concerned, comprising letters, newspapers, printed matter of every kind, and patterns and samples of merchandize, originating in either country, and addressed to and deliverable in the other country, as well as correspondence in closed mails originating in Queensland and destined for foreign countries by way of the United States. II. The post office of San Francisco shall be the United States' office of exchange, and Brisbane the office of exchange of the [1875-76. LXVI.] 4 B Colony of Queensland, for all mails transmitted under this arrange ment. III. No accounts shall be kept between the Post Departments of the two countries upon the international correspondence, written or printed, exchanged between them; but each country shall retain to its own use the postages which it collects. The single rate of international letter postage shall be 12 cents in the United States, and 6d. in Queensland, on each letter weighing half an ounce or less, and an additional rate of 12 cents (6d.) for each single weight of half an ounce or fraction thereof, which shall in all cases be prepaid at least one single rate by means of postage stamps at the office of despatch in either country. Letters unpaid, or prepaid less than one full rate of postage, shall not be forwarded, but insufficiently paid letters, on which a single rate or more has been prepaid, shall be forwarded, charged with the deficient postage to be collected and retained by the Post Department of the country of destination. The United States' post office shall levy and collect to its own use on newspapers addressed to Queensland a postage charge of 2 cents, and on all other articles of printed matter, patterns, and samples of merchandize addressed to Queensland, a postage charge of 4 cents per each weight of four ounces or fraction of four ounces. The post office of Queensland shall levy and collect to its own use on newspapers addressed to the United States a postage charge of 2 cents, and on other articles of printed matter, patterns, and samples of merchandize addressed to the United States, a postage charge of 4 cents per each weight of two ounces or fraction of two ounces. Letters, newspapers, and other articles of printed matter, patterns, and samples of merchandize, fully prepaid, which may be received in either country from the other, shall be delivered free of all charge whatsoever. Newspapers and all other kinds of printed matter, and patterns and samples of merchandize, are to be subject to the laws and regulations of each country, respectively, in regard to their liability to be rated with letter postage when containing written matter, or for any other cause specified in said laws and regulations, as well as in regard to their liability to Customs duty under revenue laws. IV. The United States' office engages to grant the transit through the United States, as well as the conveyance by United States' mail-packets, of the correspondence in closed mails which the Queensland post office may desire to transmit via the United States to British Columbia, the British North American Provinces, the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, and at the following rates of United States' transit postage, viz. :— |