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ARTICLE VII

By virtue of the right of election granted by paragraph 3, Article VI, children born of Germans in Bolivia, and children born of Bolivians in Germany, shall not be called to military service before they attain the age of twenty-one years.

ARTICLE VIII

Bolivians in Germany and Germans in Bolivia shall be exempt from all personal service in the land or sea forces, as well as in the national guard or militia; they shall also be exempt from the obligation of accepting political, administrative, or judicial offices or charges.

Those municipal duties which might be performed without loss of nationality, and which preserve therefore, the quality and condition of an alien, are excepted from the preceding rule.

ARTICLE IX

The citizens of the contracting parties are exempt from all extraordinary war contributions as well as from obligatory loans of any kind. They shall also be exempt from all military levies and services according to the principles in force in regard to the relations with the most favored nations, and in no case shall they be subject to said levies or services without obtaining first an indemnity on a just and equitable basis.

In all other cases, their personal or real property shall not be subject to charges or taxes other than those which are now imposed, or might be imposed in the future, upon their own nationals or upon the citizens of the most favored nation.

ARTICLE X

No intervention on the part of the diplomatic representatives of the contracting parties shall take place by reason of legal pretensions or private claims in any civil, criminal or administrative matter, except when there should be a denial of justice or any extraordinary or illegal judicial delay or failure to execute a judgment which has already obtained legal force, or, if, after exhausting all legal remedies, there should exist a manifest violation of existing treaties between the two contracting parties, or of the principles of public or private international law universally recognized by civilized nations.

ARTICLE XI

The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications exchanged as soon as possible.

The treaty shall come into force ten days after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force for ten years from that date; but, if, twelve months before the expiration of this period, neither of the high contracting parties shall have declared its intention to abrogate this treaty, the same shall be in force for another year and so on until a year after said official declaration should be made.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty, affixing their respective seals thereto.

Done in two originals, in German and in Spanish, in the City of La Paz on the 22nd day of July, 1908.

(L. S.) VON HAXTHAUSEN. (L. S.) CLAUDIO PINILLA.

CONSULAR CONVENTION BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND CHINA RELATIVE TO THE DUTCH POSSESSIONS AND COLONIES

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Signed at Peking, May 8, 1911; ratifications exchanged July 28, 1911

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands and His Majesty the Emperor of China, believing that, independent of the treaty of commerce and navigation between the Netherlands and China, it is desirable that a special convention should define the rights, duties, powers, privileges, exemptions and immunities of Chinese consular officers in the Dutch possessions or colonies, in order to conclude said convention, have named as their plenipotentiaries, to wit:

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands: François Beelaerts van Blakland, Esquire, Knight of the Orders of the Dutch Lion and of Orange-Nassau, invested with the third class of the first grade of the Order of the Double Dragon, her envoy and minister plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China;

His Majesty the Emperor of China: Lou Tseng Tsiang, invested with the first class of the second grade of the Order of the Double Dragon,

1 Staatsblad, 1912, No. 280.

Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau, of the Order of Saint Stanislas, his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands,

Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE 1

The consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents of China shall be admitted into the ports of the Dutch possessions beyond the sea or into the Dutch colonies where reside or may reside officers of the same class of any other foreign nation.

ARTICLE 2

The consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents of China shall be considered as commercial agents, protectors of the commerce of their nationals within their consular jurisdiction.

They shall reside in the ports of the Dutch possessions beyond the sea or in the Dutch colonies, save such exceptions as the present convention establishes in their favor.

ARTICLE 3

Before being admitted to the exercise of their functions and enjoying all their powers, privileges, exemptions and immunities therewith connected, the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents must present to the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, a commission, indicating their consular jurisdiction and their place of residence.

The government of the possession or colony shall deliver to them, free of cost, the exequatur duly countersigned, necessary for the exercise of their functions; and upon having produced this document, the said consular officers of every grade shall be entitled to the protection of the government and to the assistance of the local authorities to insure to them the free exercise of their functions.

The Government of the Queen reserves unto itself the right to withdraw the exequatur or to have it withdrawn by the governor of the possession or colony, stating the reasons for such action.

In case of the death, incapacity or absence of the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents, their consular students, their chancellors or secretaries, after their official character shall have

been notified to and approved by the competent authority, shall by full right be admitted to administer temporarily the affairs of the respective posts; during the entire period of this temporary incumbency, as far as their position as non-commercial foreigners may warrant, in conformity with Article 15, they shall enjoy all the rights, powers, privileges, exemptions and immunities accorded to the incumbents themselves.

ARTICLE 4

The consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents are authorized to display above the outer door of their residence an escutcheon with the arms of their government, bearing the inscription: Consulate-General, or Consulate, or Vice-Consulate or Consular Agency of

China.

It is well understood that these external marks may never be interpreted as conferring any right of asylum upon the residence, nor as an indication that the residence and the dwellers therein may not be proceeded against by the territorial courts of justice.

ARTICLE 5

It is understood that the archives and documents relating to consular affairs shall be protected against searches, and no authority and no magistrate may enter the archives nor seize documents nor gain possession of them in any manner and under any pretext whatever.

ARTICLE 6

The consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents are not invested with any diplomatic powers.

No petition may be addressed to the Dutch Government except through the medium of the diplomatic agent accredited to The Hague.

In case of urgency, the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents may have direct recourse to the government of the colony or possession by proving the urgency and stating the reasons for which the petition might not be addressed to the subordinate authorities, or by proving that previous petitions addressed to these authorities had not been acted upon.

ARTICLE 7

The consuls-general and consuls may appoint consular agents in the ports mentioned under Article 1.

These consular agents may be Chinese or Dutch subjects, or nationals of any other country residing, or entitled by the terms of the local laws to reside, in the port where the consular officer is appointed. These consular agents, whose appointment shall be submitted to the approval of the governor of the possession or colony, shall be provided with a commission issued by the consul under whose authority they are to exercise their functions.

The governor of the possession or colony may at any time, by notifying to the consul-general or consul the reasons for such action, withdraw from the consular agents the approval above referred to.

ARTICLE 8

The passport issued or certified by the consular officers in no way exempts the bearer from the obligation to be provided with all documents required by the local laws or regulations for traveling or establishing himself in the possessions or colonies, and in no way diminishes the right of the government of the possession or colony to order the removal or to prohibit therein sojourn of any individual provided with a passport.

ARTICLE 9

All operations regarding the salvage of Chinese vessels wrecked on the coasts of the Dutch possessions or colonies shall be directed by the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls or consular agents of China.

The intervention of the local authorities shall take place solely to maintain order, to protect the interests of the salvors if they are not part of the wrecked crews, and to insure the execution of the regulations made for the entry and exportation of property recovered.

In the absence of and until the arrival of the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls or consular agents, the local authorities shall, moreover, take all necessary measures for the protection of individuals and property recovered.

It is furthermore agreed that the property recovered shall be exempt from customs duties unless it is intended for consumption in the country where the wreck may have taken place.

ARTICLE 10

The consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls or consular agents may request the assistance of the local authorities for the arrest, detention and

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