VII. Every claim shall be filed with the Commission within two years from the date of its first meeting, unless in any case reasons for the delay, satisfactory to the majority of the Commissioners, shall be established, and in any such case the period for filing the claim may be extended not to exceed six additional months.

The Commission shall be bound to hear, examine and decide, within five years from the date of its first meeting, all the claims filed.

Four months after the date of the first meeting of the Commissioners, and every four months thereafter, the Commission shall submit to each Government a report setting forth in detail its work to date, including a statement of the claims filed, claims heard and claims decided. The Commission shall be bound to decide any claim heard and examined within six months after the conclusion of the hearing of such claim and to record its decision.

VIII. The High Contracting Parties agree to consider the decision of the Commission as final and conclusive upon each claim decided, and to give full effect to such decisions. They further agree to consider the result of the proceedings of the Commission as a full, perfect and final settlement of every such claim upon the Mexican Government, arising from any of the causes set forth in Article III of this Convention. And they further agree that every such claim, whether or not filed and presented to the notice of, made, preferred or submitted to such Commission, shall from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the Commission be considered and treated as fully settled, barred and thenceforth inadmissible, provided the claim filed has been heard and decided.

IX. The total amount awarded to claimants shall be paid in gold coin or its equivalent by the Mexican Government to the Government of the United States at Washington.

X. Each Government shall pay its own Commissioner and bear its own expenses. The expenses of the Commission, including the salary of the third Commissioner, shall be defrayed in equal proportions by the two Governments.

XI. The present Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective Constitutions. Ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged in Mexico City as soon as practicable and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed their seals to this Convention.

Done in duplicate at Mexico City this 10th day of September, 1923.

(Seal.)
(Seal.)

GEORGE F. SUMMERLIN.
A. J. PANI.

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AGREEMENT between the United States of America and Norway further prolonging the Arbitration Convention of April 4, 1908, between the Two Countries and Notes exchanged.-Washington, November 26, 1923.(1)

[Ratifications exchanged at Washington, March 8, 1924)

THE Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, desiring to extend for another five years the period during which the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on the 4th Apri 1908, (2) and extended by the Agreement concluded between the two Governments on the 16th June, 1913,(3) and further extended by the Agreement concluded between the two Governments on the 30th March, 1918,(4) shall remain force, have respectively authorised the undersigned. to wit: Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State of the Unted States of America, and Mr. Helmer H. Bryn, Envoy Extre ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Norway in the United States, to conclude the following Agreement:

ART. I. The Convention of Arbitration of the 4th Apr, 1908, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway, the duration of which by Article IV thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, which period, by the Agreement of the 16th June, 1913, between the two Governments was extended for five years from the 24th June, 1913, and was extended by the Ag ment between them of the 30th March, 1918, for the further period of five years from the 24th June, 1918, is hereby extended and continued in force for the further period of five years from the 24th June, 1923.

II. The present Agreement shall be ratified by the Pres dent of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Majesty the King of Norway, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.

Done in duplicate in the English and Norwegian languages at Washington this 26th day of November, 1923.

(Seal.)
(Seal.)

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
HELMER H. BRYN.

(1) United States Treaty Series, No. 680." Signed also in the Norwegian language.

(2) Vol. CII, page 736.

(3) Vol. CVII, page 1070.

(4) Vol. CXI, page 835

Sir,

(No. 1.)-The United States Secretary of State to the Norwegian Minister.

Department of State, Washington, November 26, 1923. IN connection with the signing to-day of an Agreement for the renewal of the Convention of Arbitration concluded between the United States and the Government of Norway, the 4th April, 1908, and renewed from time to time, I have the honour, in pursuance of our informal conversations, to state the following understanding, which I shall be glad to have you confirm on behalf of your Government.

On the 24th February last the President proposed to the Senate that it consent under certain stated conditions to the adhesion by the United States to the Protocol of the 16th December, 1920, under which the Permanent Court of International Justice has been created at The Hague. As the Senate does not convene in its regular session until December next, action upon this proposal will necessarily be delayed. In the event that the Senate gives its assent to the proposal, I understand that the Government of Norway will not be averse to considering a modification of the Convention of Arbitration which we are renewing, or the making of a separate Agreement, providing for the reference of disputes mentioned in the Convention to the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Accept, &c.

CHARLES E. HUGHES.

(No. 2.)-The Norwegian Minister to the United States

Sir,

Secretary of State.

Légation de Norvège aux Etats-Unis, Washington, D.C., November 26, 1923. WITH reference to the Note which your Excellency has been good enough to address me to-day in connection with the signing of an Agreement for the renewal of the Convention of Arbitration concluded between Norway and the United States, the 4th April, 1908, and renewed from time to time, I have the honour to state that I have been authorised to confirm, and I hereby do confirm that, in the event that the Senate gives its assent to the proposal made to it by the President of the United States that it consent under certain stated conditions to the adhesion by the United States to the Protocol of the 16th December, 1920, under which the Permanent Court of International Justice has been created at The Hague, the Government of Norway will not be averse to considering a modification of the Convention of Arbitration

which we are renewing, or the making of a separate Agre ment, providing for the reference of disputes mentione the Convention to the Permanent Court of International Justice.

CONVENTION between the United States of America s' Peru to facilitate the Work of Commercial Traveller» q Additional Protocol.-Lima, January 19, 1923 (1)

[Ratifications exchanged at Lima, July 8, 1924.]

THE United States of America and the Republic of P.. being desirous to foster the development of commer between them and to increase the exchange of commoites by facilitating the work of travelling salesmen, have ag to conclude a Convention for that purpose and have to ti end appointed as their plenipotentaries:—

The President of the United States of America:

Mr. Frederick A Sterling, Chargé d'Affaires : interim in Lima; and

The President of Peru:

Dr. Alberto Salomón, Minister for Foreign Affairs Who, having communicated to each other their powers, which were found to be in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. Manufacturers, merchants and traders domic within the jurisdiction of one of the High Contractin Parties may operate as commercial travellers, either personally or by means of agents or employees, within te jurisdiction of the other High Contracting Party obtaining from the latter, upon payment of a single fee a licence which shall be valid throughout its entire territor jurisdiction.

In case either of the High Contracting Parties shall te engaged in war, it reserves to itself the right to prevent from operating within its jurisdiction under the provisions of this Convention, or otherwise, enemy nationals or other aliens whose presence it may consider prejudicial to puli.. order and national safety.

II. In order to secure the licence above mentioned, th applicant must obtain from the country of domicile of the

(1) United States Treaty Series, No. 692." Signed also in the Spanish language.

nanufacturers, merchants and traders represented a certifi eate attesting his character as a commercial traveller This certificate, which shall be issued by the authority to be designated in each country for the purpose, shall be viséed by the consul of the country in which the applicant proposes to operate, and the authorities of the latter shall, upon the presentation of such certificate, issue to the applicant the national licence as provided in Article I.

III. A commercial traveller may sell his samples without obtaining a special licence as an importer.

IV. Samples without commercial value shall be admitted co entry free of duty.

Samples marked, stamped or defaced in such manner that they cannot be put to other uses shall be considered as objects without commercial value.

V. Samples having commercial value shall be provisionally admitted upon giving bond for the payment of awful duties if they shall not have been withdrawn from the country within a period of six (6) months.

Duties shall be paid on such portion of the samples as shall not have been so withdrawn.

VI. All customs formalities shall be simplified as much as possible with a view to avoid delay in the despatch of samples.

VII. Pedlars and other salesmen who vend directly to the consumer. even though they have not an established place of business in the country in which they operate, shall not be considered as commercial travellers, but shall be subject to the licence fees levied on business of the kind which they carry on.

VIII. No licence shall be required of :

(a.) Persons travelling only to study trade and its needs, even though they initiate commercial relations, provided they do not make sales of merchandise.

(b.) Persons operating through local agencies which pay the licence fee or other imposts to which their business is subject.

(c.) Travellers who are exclusively buyers.

IX. Any concessions affecting any of the provisions of the present Convention that may hereafter be granted by either High Contracting Party, either by law or by treaty or convention, shall immediately be extended to the other Party.

X. This Convention shall be ratified; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or Lima within two years, or sooner if possible.

The present Convention shall remain in force until the end of six months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention