opium, morphine, cocaine, ecgonine and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin) and their respective salts, and medicinal opium, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine. His Britannic Majesty's Government may, however, find it necessary to extend this list to include any new derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind which may, in their opinion, be productive, if improperly used, of ill-effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine. I avail, &c. M. DE C. FINDLAY. (No. 2.)-The Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Christiania. (Translation.) M. le Ministre, Christiania, December 16, 1921. WITH reference to your Excellency's note of the 9th March last, containing a proposal for an arrangement with Great Britain relative to certain regulations for the control of the import of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs, I have the honour to state that the Norwegian Government assents to the arrangement proposed, and will at once issue to the authorities concerned the necessary instructions in the matter. (Translation.) MESSRS. ment of I avail, &c. RAESTAD. Form of Certificate. desire to import from a consign The Norwegian Ministry for Social Affairs are satisfied that the consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal or scientific purposes and will not be re-exported from Norway. (Stamp of Ministry.) (Signature of official.) DENUNCIATIONS of the Agreement of March 21, 1920,* modifying the Commercial Convention between Great Britain and Persia of February 9, 1903.1 THE withdrawals have been notified of— Australia AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Peru relative to the Differences regarding the Mineral Property “La Brea i Pariñas."--Lima, March 2, 1922.‡ February 18, 1922. THE Government of His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the Republic of Peru hereby agree that the differences which have arisen regarding the mineral property. "La Brea i Pariñas," and which are now submitted to a Tribunal of Arbitration constituted in accordance with a protocol signed by both the above Governments in this capital on the 27th day of August, 1921, can be settled equitably on the following terms: I. The high contracting parties recognise that the property "La Brea i Pariñas," situated in the district of Amotape, Province of Paita and Department of Piura, which embraces both the surface and the subsoil or mineralised zone, comprises 41,614 claims of 40,000 square metres each, as shown on a plan made by the Government engineers, Messrs. Jochamovitz and Boza. II. The heirs of the late William Keswick and the London and Pacific Petroleum Co. (Limited), who are the owners and lessees respectively of "La Brea i Pariñas," and their respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, shall pay for a fixed and unalterable period of fifty years, computed from the first day of January 1922, by way of tax based on surface, tax on production, royalties and all other contributions and taxes, the following: (a.) Three pounds Peruvian gold per annum for each claim of 40,000 square metres, which at the time of making said payment is actually being worked either by extracting or drilling for petroleum. * Vol. CXIII. page 379. (b.) One-tenth of a pound Peruvian gold per annum for each claim of the aforesaid dimensions which is not being worked at the time of payment. + Vol. XCVI, page 51. These contributions will be paid half-yearly, being computed according to the plan and report presented by the interested parties and which the Government of Peru has the right to attest for its own account and at its own cost. At the expiration of the said period of fifty years, "La Brea i Pariñas" will be subject to the tax based on surface, tax on production, royalties, and all other contributions and taxes, which may be established by the laws then in force or which may be made thereafter. III. The actual owner of "La Brea i Pariñas" and his or its heirs, executors, administrators and assigns have the right to discontinue the work of extraction or drilling for petroleum in any claim or claims which they may consider convenient, and in that case, such claim or claims will be treated as unworked claims and will be subject to the payment of one-tenth of a pound Peruvian gold per annum per claim; also they have the right to give up the property in the subsoil of any claim or claims which they may consider convenient, in which case the owner will not pay anything for the mineral claims so abandoned, but in this event the Government of Peru can dispose of them freely, the same to be separated from the said property without necessity for remeasurement. IV. Other than the contribution fixed in the second article hereof, and during the aforesaid term of fifty years, there will be paid to the Government of Peru, in connection with the exploitation of "La Brea i Pariñas" and the refining of its products, only the tax applicable to the exportation of the products of the petroleum industry, the maximum of which tax has been fixed for the present and for a period of twenty years by Law No. 4498. In conformity with the aforesaid Law No. 4498, the Government of Peru guarantees that the export tax fixed therein will not be increased during the term of twenty years. V. For the aforesaid considerations the owner of "La Brea i Pariñas" will pay the Government of Peru the sum of 1 million dollars American gold, which will include the payment of all contributions accrued up to the 31st December, 1921, and every other claim which may exist in relation to the property "La Brea i Pariñas." The payment of this sum will be made in two halves, the first half immediately after the signing of this Agreement and the second half when this Agreement has been incorporated in the award of the Arbitration Tribunal. VI. The Government of Peru, as a result of the arrangement set forth in the preceding articles, revokes and declares null the Supreme Resolutions of the 31st March, 1911, the 15th March, 1915, and the 22nd May, 1915, and all other resolutions made after the first above mentioned date relating to the property "La Brea i Pariñas." In accordance with Article 10 of the Protocol of the 27th August, 1921, the representatives of both Governments will immediately present this Agreement to the Tribunal of Arbitration in order that it may be incorporated in the award, which will be considered as the award of such Tribunal, and which Agreement, in the opinion of both Governments, contains a solution, both equitable and just, of the differences which have arisen in connection with the property "La Brea i Pariñas." In witness whereof the undersigned, Mr. Arthur C. Grant Duff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, and Dr. Alberto Salomón, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, on behalf of their respective Governments, and being by them sufficiently authorised, have signed the present Agreement, in English and in Spanish, in duplicate, in Lima, this 2nd day of March in the year of our Lord 1922. A. C. GRANT DUFF. DENUNCIATION of the Convention between the Governments of the Transvaal and the Portuguese Province of Mozambique relating to Natives, Railways and Port, and Commerce and Customs.--Signed at Pretoria, April 1, 1909.* NOTICE of denunciation of the Convention has been given by Great Britain April 1, 1922. † SUPPLEMENTARY EXTRADITION CONVENTION between Great Britain and the United States of America. -London, May 15, 1922.‡ [Ratifications exchanged at London, July 28, 1922.] His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond * Vol. CII, page 110. 66 + With effect from April 1, 1923. Treaty Series, No. 18 (1922)." the Seas, Emperor of India, and the President of the United States of America, being desirous of enlarging the list of crimes on account of which extradition may be granted under the Conventions concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the 12th July, 1889,* and the 13th December, 1900, and the 12th April, 1905,‡ with a view to the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Convention for this purpose, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: His Britannic Majesty: the Most Honourable the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and The President of the United States: the Honourable George Harvey, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of His Britannic Majesty; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles: : ART. I. The following crimes are, subject to the provision contained in Article II hereof, added to the list of crimes numbered 1 to 10 in the first Article of the said Convention of the 12th July, 1889, and to the list of crimes numbered 11 to 13 in Article I of the Supplementary Convention concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the 13th December, 1900, and to the list of crimes numbered 14 to 15 in Article I of the Supplementary Convention concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the 12th April, 1905, that is to say: 16. Wilful desertion or wilful non-support of minor or dependent children. II. The operation of the present Convention is confined to cases in which the offences mentioned in the preceding Article having been committed in the United States or in the Dominion of Canada, the person charged with the offence is found in the Dominion of Canada or in the United States respectively. III. The present Convention shall be considered as an integral part of the said Extradition Conventions of the 12th July, 1889, and the 13th December, 1900, and the 12th April, 1905, and the first Article of the said Convention of the 12th July, 1889, shall be read as if the lists of crimes therein contained had originally comprised the additional crimes specified and numbered 16 in the first * Vol. LXXXI, page 41. + Vol. XCII, page 72. Vol. XCVIII, page 385. |