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Article VI.

Nr. 12488. Spanien und Japan.

This Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Tokio as soon as possible. || In witness whereof, the respective 28. März 1900. Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have thereunto affixed their seals. | Done at Tokio, this twenty-eighth day of the third month of the thirty-third year of Meiji, corresponding to the 28th of March, 1900.

Signed. Vicomte Aoki.

Signed. Luis de la Barrera y Riera.

Nr. 12489. NIEDERLANDE und SIAM. Abkommen über die
Registrierung niederländischer Unterthanen in
Siam.

Bangkok, 1. Mai 1901.

Niederlande

The Government of His Majesty the King of Siam and of Her Majesty Nr. 12489. the Queen of the Netherlands recognizing the necessity of adopting a modus und Siam. vivendi concerning the application, under present circumstances, of Article 11. Mai 1901. Para. IV of the Treaty of the 17th of December 1860 between Siam and the Netherlands, besides some rules for the settlement of questions which might arise as to the right of any person to hold a Dutch certificate of registration or as to the validity of the certificate itself, the undersigned, His Royal Highness Krom Luang Devawongse Varoprakar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of Siam Heer E. T. Van Delden, Consul of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands at Bangkok, duly authorized to that effect, have agreed as follows:

I.

Besides the categories of persons whom the Dutch Law of the 12th of December 1892 recognizes as Netherlands, and as a modus vivendi until Dutch legislation, shall have definitely settled the condition, as to Dutch nationality, of the native population of Dutch colonies, the registration, according to Article IV of the Treaty of the 17th of December 1860, of Dutch subjects residing in Siam shall comprise the following categories:

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1. - All children born within Dutch territory in Europe or within a Dutch colony of parents domiciled therein and not subjects of a State other than the Netherlands, or, if the father is unknown, of a mother domiciled therein and not subjects of a State other than the Netherlands; || 2. All children born in a Dutch colony of unknown parents; || 3. The wives whose husbands are entitled to be registered under one of the two foregoing categories; || 4. The widows whose husbands ar entitled, at the moment of their decease, to be registered under one of the above categories No. 1 or 2; || 5. — All children born in foreign countries of persons entitled to be registered under one of the above categories Nos. 1 or 2, provided they have not fulfilled their eighteenth year of age, or they be not married before this age, or

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Nr. 12489. that their parents have not subsequently ceased to be entitled to registration Niederlande under the aforesaid categories.

und Siam.

1. Mai 1901.

II.

The lists of registration shall be open to the inspection of a properly authorized representative of the Siamese Government on proper notice being given.

III.

If any question arises as to the right of any person to hold a Dutch certificate of registration, or as to the validity of the certificate itself, a joint inquiry shall be held by the Siamese and Dutch authorities, and decide according to the condition laid down in Article 1 of this agreement, or according to any other conditions whereon both Governments may agree in the future, upon evidence to be adduced by the holder of the certificate, in the usual way.

IV.

Should any action, civil or criminal be pending while such inquiry is going on, it shall be determined conjointly in what Court the case shall be heard.

V.

If the person in respect of whom the inquiry is held, come within the conditions for registration laid down in Article 1, he may, if not yet registered, forthwith be registered as a Dutch subject and provided with a certificate of registration at the Netherlands Consulate; otherwise he shall be recognized as falling under Siamese jurisdiction, and if already on the lists of the Netherlands Consulate, his name shall be erased.

In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the same in duplicate and have affixed thereto their seals at Bangkok, on the first day of May 1901, in the 120th year of Foundation of the City of Bangkok.

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