after such date. However, if before May 1, 1928, it should be ratified by at least six countries, it will come into force between those countries one month after the Government of the Swiss Confederation has notified them of the filing of the sixth ratification, and for the countries which should subsequently ratify, one month after the notification of each of these ratifications. This act shall replace, as regards relations between the countries which ratify it, the convention of the Union of Paris of 1883, revised at Washington June 2, 1911, and its final protocol, which shall remain in force as regards relations with countries which have not ratified the present act. ARTICLE 19. The present act shall be signed in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Netherlands. A certified copy shall be forwarded by the latter to each of the Governments of the contracting countries. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present act. Done at The Hague, in a single copy, the 6th day of November, TREATY SERIES, No. 835 RIGHTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF ITS NATIONALS IN IRAQ CONVENTION AND PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Signed at London, January 9, 1930. Ratification advised by the Senate of the United States, April 22, 1930 (legislative day of April 21, 1930). Ratified by the President of the United States, April 28, 1930. Ratified by Great Britain, February 20, 1931. Ratified by Iraq, February 2, 1931. Ratifications exchanged at London, February 24, 1931. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, March 11, 1931. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Price 10 cents BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a Convention between the United States of America, of the one part, and His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Iraq, of the other part, defining the rights of the United States of America and of its nationals in Iraq, and a Protocol, made an integral part of the said Convention, were signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at London on the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, the originals of which Convention and Protocol, being in the English and Arabic 1 languages, are word for word as follows: 1 (i.) WHEREAS in virtue of the Treaty of Peace concluded with the Allied Powers and signed at Lausanne on the 24th day of July, 1923, and in virtue of the Treaty concluded with His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Iraq, signed at Angora on the 5th day of June, 1926, Turkey has renounced all rights and titles over the territory of Iraq; and (ii.) WHEREAS by their decision of the 27th day of September, 1924, which is set forth in the first schedule hereto, the Council of the League of Nations agreed that, in so far as concerns Iraq, effect had been given to the provisions of article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles by the communication received by them from His Britannic Majesty's Government on that date; and (iii.) WHEREAS the Treaty of Alliance referred to in the aforesaid decision of the Council of the League of Nations, and set forth in the second schedule hereto, entered into force on the 19th day of December, 1924; and (iv.) WHEREAS, with the object of extending the duration of the aforesaid Treaty of Alliance, a new Treaty between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Iraq was signed at Baghdad on the 13th day of January, 1926, as set forth in the third schedule hereto, and hereinafter referred to as the Treaty of 1926; and (v.) WHEREAS on the 2nd day of March, 1926, a letter in the terms set forth in the fourth schedule hereto was addressed by His Britannic Majesty's Government to the League of Nations; and (vi.) WHEREAS on the 11th day of March, 1926, the Council of the League of Nations recorded a resolution taking note of the Treaty of 1926; and (vii.) WHEREAS the Treaty of 1926 entered into force on the 30th day of March, 1926; and 'Arabic text not printed. |