Lieux de destination des exportations en 1904-Vente de terrains nationaux-Statis- tiques sur la récolte sucrière-Expéditions de blé à destination de la Grande-Bre- tagne-Mouvements de ports pour le mois de décembre et l'année 1904. Suppression des impôts frappant les marchandises à leur passage d'un Etat à l'autre de la Confédération brésilienne-Entrées de sucre à Pernambuco en janvier 1905- Statistiques sur l'immigration en 1904-Recettes douanières en janvier 1905-Loi sur l'Immigration-Mouvement maritime-Exportations de sucre à destination de Liverpool de 1897 à 1904-Commerce extérieur de Santos en 1904. Commerce avec l'Amérique Latine-Commerce extérieur en janvier 1905-Commerce extérieur en février 1905-Stipulations du traité entre les Etats-Unis et certaines puissances américaines pour le règlement des réclamations pécuniaires, par voie d'arbitrage, promulgué par le Président des Etats-Unis le 21 mars 1905. HONORARY CORRESPONDING MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Argentine Republic.. Señor Dr. Don Estanislao S. Zeballos..... Residence. Buenos Ayres. La Paz. Pará. Florianopolis. Santiago. Bogotá. San José. Santo Domingo. Quito. Guatemala City. Guatemala City. Port au Prince. City of Mexico. City of Mexico. City of Mexico. Asunción. Lima. San Salvador. Montevideo. Señor General Don Manuel Landaeta Señor Don Francisco de Paula Alamo.. Caracas. Caracas. a Honorary corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. LATIN-AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES. ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY. Argentine Republic Bolivia. Chile... Costa Rica... Cuba.... Haiti.. Nicaragua Panama Salvador.... Uruguay Absent. ..Señor Don MARTÍN GARCÍA MÉROU, 1300 Seventeenth street, Washington, D. C. Señor Don IGNACIO CALDERÓN, 1800 N Street, Washington, D. C. 1006 Sixteenth street NW., Washington, D. C. Argentine Republic CHARGÉS D'AFFAIRES. Señor DON CARLOS E. ZAVALÍA, 1411 Hopkins street, Washington, D. C. "The Rochambeau," Washington, D. C. Colombia..... Ecuador. Panama 31-33 Broadway, New York City. Señor Don EMILIO C. JOUBERT, "The Highlands," Washington, D. C. 1748 P street, Washington, D. C. Honduras 4 Stone street, New York. .Señor Dr. Don SALVADOR Córdova, DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS: WILLIAMS C. FOX. 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: (Packets not in excess of 4 ounces. Samples of merchandise..Packets in excess of 4 ounces, for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof... Registration fee on letters and other articles... 1 8 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 (4 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. |