take charge of the property left by the decedent for the preservation and protection of the same. Such Consular Officer shall have the right to be appointed as administrator within the discretion of a tribunal or other agency controlling the administration of estates provided the laws of the place where the estate is administered so permit.

In case of the death of a national of either of the High Contracting Parties without will or testament and without any known heirs resident in the country of his decease, the Consular Officer of the country of which the deceased was a national shall be appointed administrator of the estate of the deceased, provided the regulations of his own Government permit such appointment and provided such appointment is not in conflict with local law and the tribunal having jurisdiction has no special reasons for appointing someone else.

Whenever a Consular Officer accepts the office of administrator of the estate of a deceased countryman, he subjects himself as such to the jurisdiction of the tribunal or other agency making the appointment for all necessary purposes to the same extent as a national of the country where he was appointed.

ARTICLE 16.

It is understood by the High Contracting Parties that the stipulations contained in this Treaty do not in any way affect, supersede, or modify any of the laws, ordinances and regulations with regard to naturalization, immigration, police and public security which are in force or which may be enacted in either of the two countries.

ARTICLE 17.

The provisions of the present Treaty as regards the most-favorednation treatment do not apply to:

1) Favors now granted or which may hereafter be granted to an adjoining State to facilitate frontier traffic;

2) Favors now granted or which may hereafter be granted to a third State in virtue of a Customs Union;

3) Favors now contractually granted or which may hereafter be contractually granted to a 'third State for the avoidance of double taxation or the mutual protection of revenue;

4) Favors now granted or which may hereafter be granted to an adjoining State with regard to navigation on or use of boundary waterways not navigable from the sea.

ARTICLE 18.

The present Treaty shall, from the date of its entry into force, be substituted for the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and Siam signed at

Washington on the 16th December 1920, and from this date the said Treaty of 1920 and all arrangements and agreements subsidiary thereto concluded or existing between the High Contracting Parties shall cease to be binding.

ARTICLE 19.

Subject to any limitation or exception hereinabove set forth, or hereafter to be agreed upon, the territories of the High Contracting Parties to which the provisions of this Treaty extend shall be understood to include all areas of land and water over which the Parties, respectively, exercise dominion as sovereign thereof, except the Panama Canal Zone.

ARTICLE 20.

The present Treaty shall enter into force in all of its provisions on the day of the exchange of ratifications and shall continue in force for the term of five years from that day.

If within one year before the expiration of five years from the day on which the present Treaty shall enter into force, neither High Contracting Party notifies to the other Party an intention of terminating the Treaty upon the expiration of the aforesaid period of five years, the Treaty shall remain in full force and effect after the aforesaid period and until one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have notified to the other Party an intention of terminating it.

It is clearly understood, however, that termination of the present Treaty as above provided for shall not have the effect of reviving any of the Treaties, Conventions, Arrangements, or Agreements abrogated by the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 21.

This Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Bangkok.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned plenipotentiaries have hereunto signed their names and affixed their seals, this thirteenth day of November in the nineteen hundred and thirty seventh year of the Christian Era, corresponding to the thirteenth day of the eighth month in the two thousand four hundred and eightieth year of the Buddhist

Era.

EDWIN L. NEVILLE

[SEAL]

LUANG PRADIST MANUDHARM

[SEAL]

FINAL PROTOCOL

At the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Siam, the two Plenipotentiaries have adopted the present Protocol which will have the same validity as if the ratification thereof were inserted in the text of the Treaty to which it refers:

1. It is understood that in all matters for which national treatment is provided in this Treaty, the nationals of each of the High Contracting Parties shall not be treated by the other less favorably than the nationals of any other country.

2. It is understood that the provisions of Article 6 shall not be deemed to preclude either of the High Contracting Parties from charging differing rates of license fees for the sale of imported spirituous liquors and of spirituous liquors manufactured by or under license from the State.

3. It is understood that the provisions prescribing most-favorednation treatment in this Treaty do not apply to any advantages now accorded or which may hereafter be accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another or to the Republic of Cuba, or to any advantages now or hereafter accorded by the United States of America, its territories or possessions or the Panama Canal Zone to one another, irrespective of any change in the political status of any of the territories or possessions of the United States of America.

4. It is understood that the payment of just compensation provided for in Article 1, paragraph 3, shall be determined by due process of law, without prejudice to redress, if any, according to international law.

5. It is understood that the most-favored-nation treatment in respect of the control of the means of international payment provided for in the last paragraph of Article 3 of this Treaty shall be applied unconditionally, and that such control shall be administered so as not to influence to the disadvantage of the other High Contracting Party the competitive relationships between articles originating in the territories of such Party and similar articles originating in third countries and so as not to impair the operation of any other provisions of this Treaty.

6. It is understood that in the application of the provisions of Article 7 Siam reserves the right to apply, in the matter of compulsory pilotage, the provisions of the Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports, signed at Geneva, December 9, 1923.

7. It is understood that Siam reserves her national fisheries, which shall continue to be regulated by her national laws.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned plenipotentiaries have hereunto signed their names and affixed their seals, this thirteenth day of November in the nineteen hundred and thirty seventh year of the Christian Era, corresponding to the thirteenth day of the eighth month in the two thousand four hundred and eightieth year of the Buddhist Era.

[EXCHANGE OF NOTES]

[The Siamese Minister of Foreign Affairs (Manudharm) to the American Minister (Neville)]

MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE,

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Saranromya Palace, 13th November, 1937.

In regard to sub-paragraph 3 of paragraph 4 of Article 3 of the Treaty signed by us today, we have reached the following agreement which is to remain in force during the life of the Treaty:

In the event of the establishment of a monopoly for the importation, production, or sale of a particular commodity by the Government or by a private individual or organization under authority of the Government, my Government agrees that in respect of the foreign purchases of such monopoly the commerce of your country shall receive fair and equitable treatment. To this end it is agreed that in making its foreign purchases of any product such monopoly will be influenced solely by those considerations, such as price, quality, marketability, and terms of sale, which would ordinarily be taken into account by a private commercial enterprise interested solely in purchasing such product on the most favourable terms.

I avail myself of this opportunity, Monsieur le Ministre, to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.

LUANG PRADIST MANUDHARM

His Excellency Monsieur EDWIN L. NEVILLE,

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

of the United States of America,

Bangkok.

[The American Minister (Neville) to the Siamese Minister of Foreign Affairs (Manudharm)]

No. 15.
EXCELLENCY:

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bangkok, November 13, 1937.

I have the honor to confirm Your Excellency's note of November 13, 1937, in which you state that in regard to sub-paragraph 3 of paragraph 4 of Article 3 of the Treaty signed by us today, we have