are inconsistent with the terms thereof, and solemnly engage that they will not hereafter enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof. In case any of the powers signatories hereto or subsequently admitted to the league shall before becoming a party to this covenant have undertaken any obligations which are inconsistent with the terms of this covenant, it shall be the duty of such power to take immediate steps to procure its release from such obligations. ARTICLE 26 Amendments to this covenant will take effect when ratified by the States whose representatives compose the executive council and by three-fourths of the States whose representatives compose the body of delegates. See Article 20. ARTICLE 26 Amendments to this covenant will take effect when ratified by the members of the league whose representatives compose the council and by a majority of the members of the league whose representatives compose the assembly. No such amendment shall bind any member of the league which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a member of the league. ANNEX TO THE COVENANT 1. Original members of the league of nations. Signatories of the treaty of peace: United States of America, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Empire, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hedjaz, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, Uruguay. States invited to accede to the covenant: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Persia, Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela. 2. First secretary general of the league of nations. The Honorable Sir James Eric Drummond, K.C.M.G., C.B. APPENDIX No. IV Compiled by DR. DENYS P. MYERS of the World Peace Foundation; reprinted by permission. INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 1. Régime of free navigation on international rivers, 1815. 2. International Sanitary Union, with permanent bureau, 1851. For additional protection against the spread of epidemics the following organizations have been established: (a) International Sanitary Council of Tangier, Morocco, 1818. (b) Superior Sanitary Council of Constantinople, 1894. (c) Maritime and Quarantine Sanitary Council of Egypt, 1892. (d) International Office of Public Hygiene, 1907. 3. Régime of free navigation on the Danube, 1856. 4. Universal Postal Union, with permanent bureau, 1863. 5. Improvement of the lot of sick and wounded in armies in the field (Red Cross Convention), 1864. 6. International Association for the Measurement of the Earth, with permanent bureau, 1864. 7. Universal Telegraphic Union, with permanent bureau, 1865. 8. Latin Monetary Union, 1865. 9. Maintenance of Lighthouse at Cape Spartel, Morocco, 1865. 10. Scandinavian Monetary Union, 1875. 11. International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1875. 12. International Conference against Phylloxera (plant lice), 1878. 13. Transportation of Merchandise by Railroads in Europe, with permanent bureau, 1878. 14. Publication of Customs Tariffs, with permanent bureau, 1880. 15. Protection of Industrial Property, with permanent bureau, 1880. 16. Protection of Literary and Artistic Property, with permanent bureau, 1880. 17. Protection of Submarine Cables, 1882. 18. Regulation of Fisheries Police in the North Sea, 1882. 19. Technical Unification of European Railroads, 1882. 20. International Conference for the Choice of a Prime Meridian, 1884. 21. Exchange of Reproductions of Works of Art, 1885. 22. Exchange of Official Documents, Scientific and Literary Publications, with numerous bureaus of exchange, 1886. 23. Régime of the Suez Maritime Canal, 1888. 24. International Maritime Conferences, 1889. 25. Pan American Union, 1889. 26. Legal Protection of Workers, 1890. 27. Repression of the African Slave Trade, with permanent bureau, 1890. 28. Unification of Private International Law, 1893. 29. Gauging of Non-Seagoing Vessels, 1898. 30. Regulation of the Importation of Spirituous Liquors into Certain Regions of Africa, 1899. 31. Permanent Court of Arbitration, with permanent bureau, 1899. 32. Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, with permanent central bureau and international laboratory, 1899. 33. Conservation of Wild Animals in Africa, 1900. 34. Revision of the Nomenclature of Causes of Death, 1900.. 35. Protection of Insectivorous Birds Useful to Agriculture, 1902. 36. International Sugar Union, with permanent bureau, 1902. 37. Pan American Sanitary Convention, with permanent bureau, 1902. 38. Unification of the Formulas of Potent Drugs, 1902. 39. International Association of Seismology, with permanent bureau, 1903. 40. Repression of the Trade in White Women, 1904. 41. Unification of Maritime Law, 1905. 42. International Institute of Agriculture, with permanent bureau, 1905. 43. Wireless Telegraphic Union, with permanent bureau, 1906. 44. Central American Court of Justice, International Bureau and Conferences, 1907. 45. International Committee for Making a Map of the World, 1909. 46. Regulation of the Arms Trade in Africa, 1909. 47. Repression of the Use of Opium, 1909. 48. Regulation of the Use of Saccharine, 1909. 49. Repression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications, 1910. 50. Unification of Commercial Statistics, 1910. 51. South American Postal Union, 1911. 52. Protection of Seals and Maritime Otters, 1911. |