(1.) To articles which constitute a State monopoly. (2.) To sanitary or other restrictions or prohibitions occasioned by the desirability of securing the safety of the State, of individuals, or of animals or plants. 7. Articles the produce or manufacture of the territories of one of the High Contracting Parties exported to the territories of the other shall not be subjected on export to other or higher charges than those paid on the like articles exported to any other foreign country. 8. The High Contracting Parties grant reciprocally freedom of transit to persons, vessels, goods, carriages and wagons in conformity with the laws of the country. Articles the produce or manufacture of the territories of one of the High Contracting Parties passing in transit through the territories of the other shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties, whether they pass direct or whether during transit they are unloaded, warehoused and reloaded. 9. No internal duties levied for the benefit of the State, local authorities, or corporations which affect, or may affect, the production, manufacture, or consumption of any article in the territories of either of the High Contracting Parties shall for any reason be a higher or more burdensome charge on articles the produce or manufacture of the territories of the other than on similar articles of native origin. The produce or manufacture of the territories of either of the High Contracting Parties imported into the territories of the other, and intended for warehousing or transit, shall not be subjected to any internal duty. 10. Merchants and manufacturers, subjects or citizens of one of the High Contracting Parties, as well as merchants and manufacturers domiciled and exercising their commerce and industries in the territories of such Party, may, in the territories of the other, either personally or by means of commercial travellers, make purchases or collect orders, with or without samples, and such merchants, manufacturers, and their commercial travellers, while so making purchases and collecting orders, shall, in the matter of taxation and facilities, enjoy the most-favoured-nation treatment. Articles imported as samples for the purposes above mentioned shall, in each country, be temporarily admitted free of duty on compliance with the Customs regulations and formalities established to assure their re-exportation or the payment of the prescribed Customs duties if not re-exported within the period allowed by law. But the foregoing privilege shall not extend to articles which, owing to their quantity or value, cannot be considered as samples, or which, owing to their nature, could not be identified upon re-exportation. The determination of the question of the qualification of samples for duty-free admission rests in all cases exclusively with the competent authorities of the place where the importation is effected. 11. Joint-stock companies and other commercial, industrial and financial companies and associations, including insurance companies domiciled in the territories of one of the High Contracting Parties and having legal existence according to the laws in force of such Party, shall be recognised as having legal existence in the territories of the other and authorised to appear in Court as plaintiffs and defendants according to the laws of that other Party. Their admission to the pursuit of their industry or their commerce, as well as to acquisition of property in the terri teries of the other Party, shall be dependent upon the laws and ordinances of the country. With regard to the enjoyment of rights, the Polish Government undertakes, however, to grant, on condition of reciprocity, to the Japanese companies established in Poland the most-favoured-nation treatment, provided that this treatment should be granted to any other country which is not contiguous to Poland. 12. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall permit the importation or exportation of all merchandise which may be legally imported or exported, and also the carriage of passengers from or to their respective territories, upon the vessels of the other; and such vessels, their cargoes and passengers shall enjoy the same privileges as, and shall not be subjected to any other or higher duties or charges than, national vessels and their cargoes and passengers. 13. In all that regards the stationing, loading, and unloading of vessels in the ports, docks, roadsteads and harbours of the High Contracting Parties, no privileges or facilities shall be granted by either Party to national vessels which are not equally, in like cases, granted to the vessels of the other country; the intention of the High Contracting Parties being that in these respects also the vessels of the two countries shall be treated on the footing of perfect equality. 14. Merchant vessels navigating under the flag of one High Contracting Party and carrying the papers required by their national laws to prove their nationality shall in the territorial waters of the other be deemed to be vessels of that Party. 15. No duties of tonnage, transit or canalage, harbour, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, or other analogous duties or charges of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination, levied in the name or for the profit of Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations, or establishments of any kind shall be imposed in the ports of either country upon the vessels of the other which shall not equally, under the same conditions, be imposed in like cases. on national vessels in general, or vessels of the most favoured nation. Such equality of treatment shall apply to the vessels of either country from whatever place they may arrive and whatever may be their destination. 16. Vessels charged with performance of regular scheduled postal service of one of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territorial waters of the other the same special facilities, privileges and immunities as are granted to like vessels of the most favoured nation. 17. The coasting trade of the High Contracting Parties. is excepted from the provisions of the present Treaty, and shall be regulated according to the laws of each of the High Contracting Parties. 18. The stipulations of this Treaty do not apply (1.) To tariff concessions granted by either of the High Contracting Parties to contiguous States solely to facilitate frontier traffic within a limited zone on each side of the frontier. (2.) To the special favours resulting from a Customs union. (3.) To the provisional regulations of Customs between Polish and German parts of Upper Silesia; (4.) To the treatment accorded to the produce of the national fisheries of the High Contracting Parties or to special tariff favours granted by Japan in regard to fish and other aquatic products taken in the foreign waters in the vicinity of Japan. (5.) To the special laws of protection of the national commercial vessels according to the international custom. 19. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Warsaw as soon as possible. It shall enter into operation on the tenth day after the day of the exchange of ratifications and remain in force until the expiration of six months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same, and no longer. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at Warsaw, in duplicate, this 7th day of December, Protocol. At the moment of proceeding this day to the signature of the present Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and Poland, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the two High Contracting Parties have agreed as follows: 1. To Article 4.-It is, however, understood that the stipulation of this Article shall not affect anything in the laws, dispositions or regulations in matters of commerce, industry, police, general safety and execution of certain trades or professions, now or hereafter in force, in either or both of the countries and applicable to all foreigners. 2. To Article 5.--Being understood that the products or manufacture indicated in this Article shall be originated in the countries of the High Contracting Parties, the Customs authorities shall have the right to require, on the importation of the above-mentioned articles, certificates of origin. 3. To Article 8.-The stipulations of this Treaty shall not be interpreted as affecting in any way the rights and duties of each of the High Contracting Parties with regard to the transit of arms and munitions, military equipment and military articles. 4. To Article 14.-The High Contracting Parties agree to conclude an Agreement upon an equitable basis concerning the reciprocal recognition of the ship's papers as soon as possible. 5. It is understood that the terms of the treatment of the most favoured nation in this Treaty are to be interpreted as immediate and unconditional unless expressly otherwise provided. (L.S.) T. KAWAKAMI. (L.S.) G. NARUTOWICZ. HENRYK STRASBURGER. TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION between Japan and Siam and Protocol concerning Jurisdiction Applicable in Siam to Japanese Subjects.—Bangkok, March 10, 1924. [Ratifications exchanged at Bangkok, December 22, 1924.] His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the King of Siam being desirous of strengthening the relations of amity and good understanding which happily exist between the two States, and being convinced that this cannot be better accomplished than by revising the Treaties hitherto existing between the two countries, have resolved to complete such revision, based upon the principles of equity and mutual benefit, and for that purpose have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: Chonosuke Yada, Jushii, a member of the Third Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the seat of the Government of the Kingdom of Siam; and His Majesty the King of Siam: His Highness Prince Traidos Prabandh, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, his Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles: ART 1. There shall be constant peace and perpetual friendship between the Empire of Japan and the Kingdom of Siam. The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall have liberty to enter, travel and reside in the territories and possessions of the other, to carry on their commerce and manufacture, to trade in all kinds of merchandise of lawful commerce, to engage in religious, educational and charitable work, to own or lease and occupy houses, manufactories, warehouses and shops, to employ agents of their choice, to lease land for residential, commercial, industrial, religious, charitable and other lawful purposes and for use as cemeteries, and generally to do anything incident to or necessary for trade upon the same terms as native subjects, submitting themselves to the laws and regulations there established. They shall not be compelled, under any pretext whatever, to pay any internal charges or taxes other or higher than those that are or may be paid by native subjects. The subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall receive, in the territories and possessions of the other, the most constant protection and security for their persons and property and shall enjoy in this respect the same rights and privileges as are or may be granted to native subjects, on their submitting themselves to the conditions imposed upon native subjects. They shall, however, be exempt in the territories and possessions of the other from compulsory military service either on land or sea, in the regular forces, or in the national guard, or in the militia; from all contributions imposed in lieu of personal military service, and from all forced loans or military exactions or contributions. The subjects of both of the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy in the territories and possessions of the High Con |