TABLE DES MATIÈRES. Page. 1.-NOMINATION D'UN NOUVEAU DIRECTEUR DU BUREAU DES RÉPUBLIQUES AMÉRICAINES. IL-NOUVEAU BATIMENT POUR LE BUREAU DES RÉPUBLIQUES AMÉRICAINES.. III.-TRAITÉ GÉNÉRAL CENTRO-AMÉRICAIN DE PAIX, D'AMITIÉ ET DE COMMERCE-CONVENTIONS SPÉCIALES...... IV. RÉPUBLIQUE ARGENTINE................ 227 228 230 242 Inspection de produits alimentaires provenant d'animaux importés-Mouvement maritime en octobre 1906. V. BOLIVIE...... 243 Nouvelle loi monétaire. 211 Message présidentiel-Exportations de caoutchouc pour les neuf mois de l'année 1900-Mouvement du café en octobre 1906, VII-CHILI.. 246 Commerce extérieur-Animaux domestiques-Monopole du nitrate-Nouvelle compagnie pour le tannage du cuir et la fabrication de chaussures. Commerce de Saint-Domingue pendant les six premiers mois de l'année 1906. XI.-ÉTATS-UNIS............. 252 Commerce avec l'Amérique Latine-Importation de peaux de chèvre-Production de coton. XII-HATI... 254 Modifications douanières. XIII-MEXIQUE. 255 Importations de bétail de race-Les droits d'importation par le port de Mazatlan. XIV. NICARAGUA.. HONORARY CORRESPONDING MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Countries. Names. Residence. Argentine Republic.. Señor Dr. Don Estanislao S. Zeballos......... Buenos Ayres. La Paz. Pará. Florianopolis. Santiago. Bogotá. San José. Havana. Havana. Santo Domingo. Quito. Guayaquil. Señor Don Luis Alberto Carbo Guatemala.. Señor Don Antonio Batres Jáuregui..... Guatemala City. a Honorary corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY. Argentine Republic Bolivia. Chile.... Colombia... Costa Rica.. Cuba.... 1633 Sixteenth street, Washington, D. C. Absent. Señor Don JOAQUÍN WALKER-MARTÍNEZ, Señor Don JOAQUÍN BERNARDO CALVO, 1329 Eighteenth street NW., Washington, D. C. .Señor Don GONZALO DE QUESADA, .Señor Don LUIS FELIPE CARBO, 1429 Rhode Island avenue, Washington, D. C. Honduras Nicaragua Peru Salvador..... Office of Legation, 2003 O street, Washington, D. C. Señor Don J. DOMINGO DE OBALDÍA, Absent. Señor Dr. Don José ROSA PACAS, Señor Dr. Don Luis MELIAN LAFINUR, Office of Legation, 1752 M street, Washington, D. C. Venezuela Señor Don ALBERTO YOACHAM, .Dr. RAMÓN BENGOECHEA, Office of Legation, "The Rochambeau," Washington, D. C. Office of Legation, în care Consulate-General, 2 and 4 Stone street, New York City. "The Rochambeau," Washington, D. C. DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. JOHN BARRETT. RATES OF POSTAGE FROM THE UNITED STATES TO LATINAMERICAN COUNTRIES. The rates of postage from the United States to all foreign countries and colonies (except Canada, Mexico, and Cuba) are as follows: thereof..... 1 8 Samples of merchandise..Packets in excess of 4 ounces, for each 2 ounces or fraction Registration fee on letters and other articles.. Ordinary letters for any foreign country (except Canada, Mexico, and Cuba) must be forwarded, whether any postage is prepaid on them or not. All other mailable matter must be prepaid, at least partially. Matter mailed in the United States addressed to Mexico is subject to the same postage rates and conditions as it would be if it were addressed for delivery in the United States, except that articles of miscellaneous merchandise (fourth-class matter) not sent as bona fide trade samples should be sent by "Parcels Post;" and that the following articles are absolutely excluded from the mails without regard to the amount of postage prepaid or the manner in which they are wrapped: All sealed packages, other than letters in their usual and ordinary form; all packages (including packages of second-class matter) which weigh more than 4 pounds 6 ounces, except such as are sent by "Parcels Post;" publications which violate any copyright law of Mexico. Single volumes of printed books in unsealed packages are transmissible to Mexico in the regular mails without limit as to weight. Unsealed packages of mailable merchandise may be sent by "Parcels Post" to Bolivia, British Guiana, British Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Venezuela, at the rates named on page xv. PROHIBITED ARTICLES TO ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Poisons, explosives, and inflammable articles, live or dead animals, insects (especially the Colorado beetle), reptiles, fruit or vegetable matter liable to decomposition, and substances exhaling a bad odor, excluded from transmission in domestic mails as being in themselves, either from their form or nature, liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise injure the contents of the mail bags, or the persons of those engaged in the postal service; also obscene, lewd, or lascivious books, pamphlets, etc., and letters and circulars concerning lotteries, so-called gift concerts, etc. (also excluded from domestic mails); postal cards or letters addressed to go around the world; letters or packages (except those to Mexico) containing gold or silver substances, jewelry or precious articles, any packet whatever containing articles liable to customs duties in the countries addressed (except Cuba and Mexico); articles other than letters which are not prepaid at least partly; articles other than letters or postal cards containing writing in the nature of personal correspondence, unless fully prepaid at the rate of letter postage; articles of a nature likely to soil or injure the correspondence; packets of commercial papers and prints of all kinds, the weight of which exceeds 2 kilograms (1 pounds 6 ounces), or the size 18 inches in any direction, except rolls of prints, which may measure 30 inches in length by 4 inches in diameter; postal cards not of United States origin, and United States postal cards of the largest (“C”) size (except as letters), and except also the reply halves of double postal cards received from foreign countries. There is, moreover, reserved to the Government of every country of the Postal Union the right to refuse to convey over its territory, or to deliver, as well, articles liable to the reduced rate in regard to which the laws, ordinances, or decrees which regulate the conditions of their publication or of their circulation in that country have not been complied with. - Full and complete information relative to all regulations can be obtained from the United States Postal Guide. |