its contents, prepare internal money orders in favour of the payees for the amounts specified in the list or for their equivalent in the money of the country of payment, and shall then forward such internal money orders to the payees or to the paying offices according to the arrangements existing in the country of payment.

XIX. If the Post and Telegraph Office of Latvia should desire to send money order remittances, through the medium of the British Post Office, to any of the foreign countries, British Colonies, &c., with which the British Post Office transacts money order business, it shall be at liberty to do so provided that the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a.) The Post Office of Latvia shall advise the amounts of such through" orders to the Money Order Department, London, which will readvise them to the exchange offices of the countries of payment.

(b.) No such order shall exceed the maximum amount fixed by the country of destination for money orders issued in the United Kingdom.

orders shall be

(c.) The particulars of "through" entered either in red ink at the end of the ordinary advice lists despatched to London or on separate sheets, the total amounts of the "through" orders being included in the totals of such lists.

(d.) The names and addresses of the payees, including the names of the town and country of payment, must be given as fully as possible.

(e.) The Post Office of Latvia shall allow to the London Office the same percentage (see Article V) on through orders as on orders payable in the United Kingdom, the London Office crediting the office of the country of payment with the same percentage for the "through orders as for the orders issued in the United Kingdom, and, for its intermediary services, deducting from the amount of each readvised order a special commission to be fixed by the British Post Office.

(f.) When the amount of a through" order is repaid to the remitter the commission charged for the intermediary service is not refunded.

If the British Post Office should desire to send money orders, through the medium of the Post Office of Latvia, to any countries with which that office transacts money order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under similar conditions to those stated in the foregoing paragraphs.

Each Administration shall communicate to the other the names of the countries with which it transacts money order business, the limit of amount adopted for each, and the rates of commission deducted for its intermediary services.

XX. At the end of every month the offices of exchange at

London and Riga shall each prepare and forward to the

other

1. A detailed statement showing the total of each list received from the other country during the month (see (Appendix (D) ).

2. A list showing the particulars of all orders which it has. authorised the other office to repay to the original remitters (see Appendix (E)).

3. A list showing the particulars of all orders issued by the other country which have not been paid within twelve months after the end of the month of issue, and have therefore become forfeited to the country of issue (see Appendix (F)).

The statements (D) and (E) shall be rendered in duplicate, and one copy of each statement, duly verified by the receiving office, shall be returned to the despatching office.

XXI. As soon as it shall have received the verified copies of the statements (D) and (E) provided for in Article XX the Exchange Office at Riga shall furnish to the Exchange Office at London a Money Order Account (in duplicate) which shall include the following items:

(a.) To the credit of the United Kingdom-the total of the lists which have been despatched from Latvia during the month, less the amount of orders authorised to be repaid in Latvia, and the total amount of orders issued in Latvia which have become void during the month, and the allowance of per cent. on the amount of orders paid.

(b.) To the credit of Latvia-the total of the lists which have been despatched from London during the month, less the amount of orders authorised to be repaid in the United Kingdom, and the total amount of orders issued in the United Kingdom which have become void during the month, and the allowance of per cent. on the amount of orders paid.

The Money Order Account shall be prepared on a form similar to that marked (G) in the Appendix. One copy of the account, duly accepted, shall be returned to Riga.

XXII. Whenever during a month it is found that the orders drawn upon one of the two countries exceed in amount by £250 the orders drawn upon the other, the latter shall at once send to the former, as a remittance on account, the approximate amount in a round sum of the ascertained difference.

XXIII. When the Post and Telegraph Office of Latvia has to pay to the British Post Office the balance of the General Account, it shall do so at the time that it forwards the account to London, and when the British Post Office has to pay the balance, it shall do so at the same time that it returns to Riga the duplicate of the account accepted.

Such payments, as well as any payment required under the provisions of Article XXII, shall be made in sterling by means of drafts payable on demand at London.

Any amount remaining due from one Administration to the other at the expiration of six months following the period covered by the relative account shall thenceforth be subject to interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.

XXIV. Should it appear at any time that money orders are used by mercantile inen or other persons in the United Kingdom, or in Latvia, for the transmission of large sums of money, the British Post Office or the Post and Telegraph Office of Latvia, as the case may be, shall be authorised to increase the commission, and shall have power even wholly to suspend, for a time, the issue of money orders.

XXV. The Postal Administration of each country shall be authorised to adopt any additional rules (if not in contradiction to the foregoing) for greater security against fraud, or for the better working of the system generally.

All such additional rules, however, must be communicated to the Postal Administration of the other country.

XXVI. This Agreement shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1922, and shall be terminable on a notice by either party of six calendar months.

Done in duplicate and signed at London on the 17th day of October, 1922, and at Riga on the 12th day of September, 1922.

(L.S.), F. G. KELLAWAY. (L.S.) ED. KADIKIS.

[Appendices not reproduced.]

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Lithuania respecting Commercial Relations.-May 6, 1922.*

(No. 1.)-Mr. Wilton to the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign

Sir,

Affairs.

Riga, May 6, 1922. Ir being the desire of our respective Governments to establish close commercial relations between the United Kingdom and Lithuania, I have the honour to inform you that my Government is prepared to undertake, on condition of reciprocity, that Lithuanian nationals and goods the produce or manufacture of Lithuania shall enjoy in the United Kingdom treatment which, subject to the special reservations referred to in paragraph 5 of this note, shall be at least as "Treaty Series, No. 9 (1922)."

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favourable in all respects as that accorded to the nationals of and goods the produce or manufacture of the most favoured foreign country. This treatment shall be accorded in all matters of commerce and navigation and as regards importation, exportation and transit, and in general in all that concerns customs duties and formalities and commercial operations, the establishment of Lithuanian citizens in the United Kingdom, the exercise of commerce, industries and professions, and the payment of taxes.

2. Lithuanian vessels shall enjoy in the ports, rivers and territorial waters of the United Kingdom treatment not less favourable than that accorded to British vessels or the vessels of the most favoured foreign country, subject, however, to the right of His Britannic Majesty's Government to reserve the coasting trade to British vessels.

3. His Britannic Majesty's Government further undertakes, on condition of reciprocity, to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails in transit to or from Lithuania over the United Kingdom, including territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favourably as British persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails respectively, or those of any other more favoured nationality, origin, importation or ownership as regards facilities, charges, restrictions and all other matters.

4. The foregoing stipulations will not be applicable to India or to any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates beyond the seas, unless notice of accession to this arrangement shall have been given on behalf of India or any such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate by His Britannic Majesty's representative in the Baltic States before the expiration of twelve months from this date. Nevertheless, goods the produce or manufacture of India or of any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates will enjoy in Lithuania complete and unconditional most-favoured-nation treatment, so long as India or such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate accords to goods the produce or manufacture of Lithuania treatment as favourable as that accorded to the produce of the soil or industry of any other foreign country.

5. It is understood that nothing in this Agreement shall be held to confer any right or impose any obligation upon either party which might be in conflict with any general international convention to which the Lithuanian or His Britannic Majesty's Government is, or hereafter may be, a party.

6. Effect will be given immediately to the undertaking contained in this note, and will continue to be so given until the conclusion of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation between the two countries, subject, however, to the right of either party at any time to give notice to the other to

terminate the arrangement, which shall then remain in force until the expiration of three months from the date on which such notice is given.

As regards India and the British dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates which may have acceded to this arrangement in virtue of the provisions of paragraph 4, either of our respective Governments shall have the right to terminate it separately on giving three months' notice to that effect.. I have, &c.

E. C. WILTON,

British Commissioner for Lithuania.

(No. 2.) The Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs to

Sir,

Mr. Wilton.

Kovno, May 6, 1922. IT being the desire of our respective Governments to establish close commercial relations between Lithuania and the United Kingdom, I have the honour to inform you that my Government is prepared to undertake, on condition of reciprocity, that British subjects and goods the produce cr manufacture of the United Kingdom shall enjoy in Lithuania treatment which, subject to the special reservations referred to in paragraph 5 of this note, shall be at least as favourable in all respects as that accorded to the nationals of and goods the produce or manufacture of the most favoured foreign country. This treatment shall be accorded in all matters of commerce and navigation and as regards importation, exportation and transit, and in general in all that concerns customs duties and formalities and commercial operations, the establishment of British subjects in Lithuania, the exercise of commerce, industries and professions, and the payment of taxes.

2. British vessels shall enjoy in the ports, rivers and territorial waters of Lithuania treatment not less favourable than that accorded to Lithuanian vessels or the vessels of the most favoured foreign country, subject, however, to the right of the Lithuanian Government to reserve the coasting and internal trade to Lithuanian vessels.

3. The Lithuanian Government further undertakes, on condition of reciprocity, to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails in transit to or from the United Kingdom over Lithuanian territory, including territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favourably as Lithuanian persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails respectively, or those of any other more