*For exact dates of dispatches of mails consult the Monthly Steamship Schedule issued by the Post-Office Department. EXCHANGE OF MAILS WITH CANADA. The exchange of mails with Canada takes place between the following exchange post-offices: On the side of Canada. Hamilton, Ont.; Toronto, Ont. ; Montreal, Q. St. John, N. B. Hamilton, Ont.; Toronto, Ont.; Kingston, Ont.; Montreal, Q.; Quebec, Q.; Halifax, N. S.; Yarmouth, N. S. (summer service); St. John, N. B.; Charlottetown, Pr. Ed. I. Great Western Railway, Ont.; Canada Southern Railway Postal Car, Ont.; Buffalo & Lake Huron Railway Postal Car, Ont.; London, Ont.; Fort Erie, Ont.; Hamilton, Ont.; Niagara, Ont.; Toronto, Ont. Vanceborough & Bangor, Me., R. P. O... St. Stephens, St. Andrews, and Woodstock, N. B. EXCHANGE OF MAILS WITH MEXICO. The exchange of mails with Mexico takes place between the following exchange post-offices: 1. Between New York and Vera Cruz (by sea). 2. Between New Orleans and Tampico and Vera Cruz (by sea). 3. Between San Francisco and Mazatlan, San Blas, Manzanilla, Acapulco (by sea). 4. Between Brownsville, Tex., and Matamoras. 5. Between Eagle Pass, Tex., and Piedras Negras, 6. Between El Paso, Tex., and Paso del Norte. 7. Between Tucson, Ariz., and Magdalena. Correspondence for Yucatan, Campeachy, Tobasco, Vera Cruz, Puebla, and the entire eastern and central sections of Mexico is expeditiously forwarded via New York or via New Orleans. Correspondence for the State of Tamaulipas and northeastern section of Mexico is expeditiously forwarded via Brownsville, Tex., or via New Orleans. Correspondence for the States of Nueva Leon and Coahuila, up to San Luis Potosi, is expeditiously forwarded via Eagle Pass, Tex. Correspondence for the State of Chihuahua and central and northwestern sections of Mexico is expeditiously forwarded via El Paso. Correspondence for the States of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Durango and the Territory of Lower California is expeditiously forwarded via Tucson, Ariz. Correspondence for ports and places on the Pacific coast and western and southern sections of Mexico is expeditiously forwarded via San Francisco. 18 P L CHAPTER TWO. CORRESPONDENCE UNDER SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND WITH COUNTRIES NOT IN THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION. Sec. 1126. Special postal conventions and arrangements. 1127. Rates of postage when not fixed by convention. Sec. 1132. Miscellaneous regulations and suggestions. 1133. Treatment of dutiable articles. 1134. Dutiable printed matter in foreign mails. 1128. Rates, etc., for non-Convention countries by 1135. Discretional remission of duties on single direct mails. 1129. List of principal non-Convention countries. 1130. Rates to non-Convention countries on matter not sent direct. 1131. Postal Guide to be consulted for foreign postage table. books. 1136. Consuls may pay foreign postage on letters for the United States. 1137. Retaliatory postage on certain foreign matter. 1138. Letters brought by foreign vessels to be deposited in post-office. Sec. 1126. Special Postal Conventions and Arrangements.-Special postal conventions are in force with the countries named below. The principal provisions governing the exchange of correspondence under the respective conventions and arrangements, together with the rates of postage, are stated under each. CANADA. The Dominion of Canada embraces all the British North American Provinces, except Newfoundland. The correspondence exchangeable comprises letters (ordinary and registered), postal cards, newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, books, maps, plans, engravings, drawings, photographs, lithographs, sheets of music, etc., and patterns and samples of merchandise, including grains and seeds. Patterns and samples are construed to be bona fide specimens of goods on hand and for sale, having no intrinsic value aside from their use as patterns and samples. The weight of each package is limited to eight ounces, and the postage charge is ten cents per package, prepayment compulsory. They are subject to the regulations of either country to prevent violations of the revenue laws; must not be closed against inspection, and must be so wrapped and inclosed as to be easily examined. All articles of mail-matter, except samples, must be fully prepaid at the domestic rates of the country of origin, and are deliverable free of charge in the country of destination. Newspapers sent from offices of publication in the United States to regular subscribers in Canada are subject to the same rates of postage and conditions of prepayment as when sent to subscribers in the United States. "Request letters" originating in Canada are returnable directly to the Canadian mailing post-offices, in the event of non-delivery to their addressees within the time specified by the writers. The regulations respecting the manner of inclosure and limit of weight, governing the transmission of domestic correspondence, are applicable to correspondence exchanged with Canada, patterns and samples excepted. ECUADOR. Letters, and manuscript subject by the laws of either country to letter rate of postage, newspapers, and prints of all kinds in sheets, in pamphlets, and in books, sheets of music, engravings, lithographs, photographs, drawings, maps, and plans, comprise the correspondence exchangeable with Ecuador. All correspondence, except letters, and manuscript subject to letter postage, is |