Government for the approval of Parliament and by the Irish signatories to a meeting summoned for the purpose of the members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and if approved shall be ratified by the necessary legislation.

1. The following are the specific facilities required

Dockyard Port at Berehaven.

(a.) Admiralty property and rights to be retained as at the date hereof. Harbour defences to remain in charge of British care and maintenance parties.

Queenstown.

(b.) Harbour defences to remain in charge of British care and maintenance parties. Certain mooring buoys to be retained for use of His Majesty's ships.

Belfast Lough.

(c.) Harbour defences to remain in charge of British care and maintenance parties.

Lough Swilly.

(d.) Harbour defences to remain in charge of British care and maintenance parties.

Aviation.

(e.) Facilities in the neighbourhood of the above ports for coastal defence by air.

(f.) Haulbowline Rathmullen

Oil Fuel Storage.

To be offered for sale to commercial companies under guarantee that purchasers shall maintain a certain minimum stock for Admiralty' purposes.

2. A convention shall be made between the British Government and the Government of the Irish Free State to give effect to the following conditions:

(a.) That submarine cables shall not be landed or wireless stations for communication with places outside Ireland be established except by agreement with the British Government; that the existing cable landing rights and wireless concessions shall not be withdrawn except by agreement with the British Government; and that the British Government shall be entitled to land additional submarine cables or establish additional wireless stations for communication with places outside Ireland.

(6.) That lighthouses, buoys, beacons, and any navigational marks or navigational aids shall be maintained by the Government of the Irish

Free State as at the date hereof and shall not be removed or added to except by agreement with the British Government.

(c.) The war signal stations shall be closed down and left in charge of care and maintenance parties, the Government of the Irish Free State being offered the option of taking them over and working them for commercial purposes subject to Admiralty inspection and guaranteeing the upkeep of existing telegraphic communication therewith.

3. A Convention shall be made between the same Governments for the regulation of civil communication by air.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Denunciation by Great Britain of the Treaty between Great Britain and Brazil for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, signed at Rio de Janeiro, November 23, 1826.-London, March 31, 1922.*

Foreign Office, March 31, 1922.

In accordance with the general policy of His Majesty's Government to abolish obsolete Treaty instruments, notice of the decision of His Majesty's Government to terminate the Treaty between Great Britain and Brazil for the abolition of the slave trade, signed at Rio de Janeiro on the 23rd November, 1826, was given to the Brazilian Government by His Majesty's Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro on the 29th June, 1921. The Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs stated in his reply of the 16th July that the Brazilian Government regarded the Treaty as inoperative.

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The Treaty accordingly ceased to have effect on the 16th July, 1921.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Denunciation by Great Britain of the Treaty between Great Britain and Colombia for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, signed at Bogotá, April 2, 1851.-London, March 31, 1922.*

Foreign Office, March 31, 1922.

In accordance with the general policy of His Majesty's Government to abolish obsolete Treaty instruments, notice of the decision of His Majesty's Government to terminate the Treaty between Great Britain and Colombia for the abolition + Vol. XIV, page 609.

"London Gazette," April 4, 1922.

of the slave trade, signed at Bogotá on the 2nd April, 1851,* was given to the Colombian Government by His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Bogotá on the 9th August, 1921, and was accepted by the Colombian Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of his Government on the 27th September, 1921.

The Treaty accordingly ceased to have effect from the date of the acceptance of the denunciation, viz., the 27th September, 1921.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL amending The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913."-Windsor, April 1, 1922.*

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 1st day of April, 1922. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Mr. Secretary Shortt.

Sir Frederick Ponsonby
Mr. Bridgeman.

WHEREAS by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty the King has jurisdiction in Bahrein:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as "The Bahrein (Amendment) Order in Council, 1922," and shall be read as one with "The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913,'§ hereinafter called "the Principal Order."

2. The following provisions are substituted for Articles 51 to 59 inclusive of the Principal Order :

(1.) A register of British subjects shall be kept in the office of the Political Agency.

(2.) Every British subject resident within the limits of this Order shall, in the month of January of each year, be registered at the Political Agency. A British subject arriving within the limits of this Order must apply for registration within one month after his arrival; provided that a person who fails to apply for or to obtain registration within the time limited by this article may be registered at any time if he excuses his failure to the satisfaction of the Political Agent. (3.) Where a person is in possession of a valid British Vol. XL, page 45. Vol. LXXXII, page 656.

+"London Gazette," July 18, 1922. § Vol. CVI, page 549.

passport, the Political Agent shall, on the first registration of any such person, endorse without further fee than that provided for in Sub-Article (6) hereunder on the passport a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Where any such person applies for a renewal of the registration and produces his passport, the renewal of the registration shall, without further fee than that provided for in Sub-Article (6) hereunder be endorsed thereon.

(4.) Every person who has not previously been registered applying to be registered under this Order shall, unless excused by the Political Agent, attend personally for that purpose at the Political Agency, but any person applying for the renewal of his registration need not attend personally unless directed by the Political Agent so to do, provided that the registration of the wife or wives of a man who is registered under this Order may, if living with him, be effected without their personal attendance being required and provided also that the registration of minors, being his relatives in whatever degree, living with the head of a family, who is registered under this Order, may be effected without their personal attendance being required.

(5.) A person registered in any register of British subjects. established under the provisions of any Order in Council which have been repealed shall be registered under the provisions of this Order unless the Political Agent is satisfied after enquiry that the previous registration was erroneous or that such person is not entitled to registration under the provisions of this Order.

(6.) Every person shall, on every registration of himself, and on every renewal of the registration, pay a fee of 1 rupee or such other fee as the Secretary of State from time to time appoints. The amount of the fee may be uniform for all persons, or may vary according to the position and circumstances of different classes, if the Secretary of State from time to time so directs, but may not in any case exceed 3 rupees.

(7.) Where any person applies to be registered, he shall be entitled, without a fee, to the assistance of the Political Agent in the preparation of any affidavit that may be required.

(8.) The Political Agent may require the production of such evidence that an applicant for registration is entitled to the status of a British subject as he may see fit, but subject to such directions as may be issued by the Secretary of State.

(9.) If any British subject neglects to obtain registration under the provisions of this Order, he shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British subject within the limits of this Order, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 rupees for each instance of such failure, but he shall,

although not registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts established by the Principal Order.

3. From and after the commencement of this Order, Articles 51 to 59 inclusive of the Principal Order are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not prejudice any rights, obligations or liabilities accrued thereunder.

4.-(1.) This Order shall take effect as soon as it is first exhibited in the office of the Political Agent, and that date is in this Order referred to as the commencement of the Order.

(2.) For that purpose the Political Agent shall, on the receipt by him of a certified printed copy of the Order, cause the same to be affixed and exhibited conspicuously in that office. He shall also keep the same so affixed and exhibited during one month from that first exhibition.

(3.) Proof shall not in any proceeding or matter be required that the provisions of this article have been complied with, nor shall any act or proceeding be invalidated by any failure to comply with any such provisions.

ALMERIC FITZROY. [This Order came into force on the 29th June, 1922.]

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL amending "The China (Kashgar) Order in Council, 1920."-Windsor, April 1,

1922.*

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 1st day of April, 1922. PRESENT THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Mr. Secretary Shortt.

Sir Frederick Ponsonby.
Mr. Bridgeman.

WHEREAS by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means, His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the portions of China comprised within the Consular District of Kashgar:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as "The China (Kashgar) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1922," and shall be read as "London Gazette," August 25, 1922. + Vol. LXXXII, page 656.

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