compensation for any of the services so rendered shall be made against the Government demanding the extradition: provided, however, that any officer or officers of the surrendering Government so giving assistance who shall, in the usual course of their duty, receive no salary or compensation other than specific fees for services performed shall be entitled to receive from the Government demanding the extradition the customary fees for the acts or services performed by them, in the same manner and to the same amount as though such acts or services had been performed in ordinary criminal proceedings under the laws of the country of which they are officers.

XIV. The conveyance through the territories of either of the High Contracting Parties of any person, not being a citizen of the country to be passed through, extradited by a third Power to either of them for any of the crimes specified in this Treaty, will be permitted if, in the case of the United States, the authority of the Secretary of State, and, in that of El Salvador, that of the Minister for Foreign Relations, is first obtained.

XV. This Treaty shall take effect from the day of the exchange of the ratifications thereof; but either Contracting Party may at any time terminate the same on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention to do so.

The ratifications of the present Treaty shall be exchanged at San Salvador or at Washington as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above Articles, and have hereunto affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate, at the city of San Salvador, this 18th day of April, 1911.

(L.S.) WILLIAM HEIMKÉ. (L.S.) M. CASTRO R.

ARBITRATION CONVENTION between the United States of America and the Republic of Uruguay.-Signed at Washington, January 9, 1909.

[Ratifications exchanged at Washington, November 14, 1913.]

THE Government of the United States of America, signatory of the two Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague, respectively, on the 29th July, 1899,† and the 18th October, 1907, and the Govern# " United States Treaty Series," No. 583.

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ment of the Republic of Uruguay, adherent to the said Convention of the 29th July, 1899, and signatory of the said Convention of the 18th October, 1907;

Taking into consideration that by Article XIX of the Convention of the 29th July, 1899, and by Article XL of the Convention of the 18th October, 1907, the High Contracting Parties have reserved to themselves the right of concluding Agreements with a view to referring to arbitration all questions which they shall consider possible to submit to such treatment;

Have authorized the Undersigned to conclude the following Convention :

ART. I. Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of Treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the 29th July, 1899, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, and maintained by The Hague Convention of the 18th October, 1907: provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honour of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third Parties.

II. In each individual case the High Contracting Parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, shall conclude a special Agreement defining clearly the matter in dispute, the scope of the powers of the Arbitrators, and the periods to be fixed for the formation of the Arbitral Tribunal and the several stages of the procedure. It is understood that, on the part of the United States, such special Agreements will be made by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and, on the part of Uruguay, shall be subject to the procedure required by the Constitution and laws thereof.

III. The present Convention is concluded for a period of five years, and shall remain in force thereafter until one year's notice of termination shall be given by either Party.

IV. The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the President of Uruguay in accordance with the Constitution and laws thereof. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible, and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications.

Done in duplicate in the English and Spanish languages at Washington, this 9th day of January, 1909.

(L.S.) ELIHU ROOT.

(L.S.) LUIS MELIAN LAFINUR.

CONSTITUTION of the United States of Venezuela.-
Caracas, August 5, 1909.

THE Congress of the United States of Venezuela, in the name of Almighty God, with the authority of the people of Venezuela and in the exercise of the power conferred upon it by Article 13 of the Constitution,* decrees the following Constitution ::

CHAPTER I.

Section 1.-The Nation and its Territory.

ART. 1. The Venezuelan nation is the reunion of all Venezuelans under the same pact of political association for their common advantage.

2. The Venezuelan nation is for always and irrevocably free and independent of every foreign Power or Dominion; and in no case and by no act shall any authority, Congress, or Power be able to change the form of government, which is and shall always be republican, federal, democratic, elective, representative, alternative, and responsible.

3. The territory of Venezuela includes all that which before the political transformation of 1810 was called the CaptaincyGeneral of Venezuela, with the modifications resulting from public Treaties. For its better administration it is divided into States, sections, districts, municipalities, and Federal territories.

4. The sections of Apure. Aragua, Barcelona, Barinas, Barquisimeto, Carabobo, Caracas, Cojedes, Coro, Cumaná, Guárico, Guayana, Maracaibo, Maturin, Margarita, Mérida, Portugueza, Táchira, Trujillo, and Yaracuy, which formed the Pact of Union of 1864,† shall resume their sovereignty and be united to form the United States of Venezuela, under the denomination and with the modifications expressed in the following paragraphs:State of Apure, formed by the old State of Apure. State of Aragua, formed by the old State of Aragua. State of Anzoátegui, formed by the old State of Barcelona. State of Bolívar, formed by the old State of Guayana, without the territories of Amazonas and Delta Amacure.

State of Carabobo, formed by the old State of Carabobo. State of Cojedes, formed by the old State of Cojedes. State of Falcón, formed by the old State of Coro. State of Guárico, formed by the old State of Guárico. State of Lara, formed by the old State of Barquisimeto. State of Monagas, formed by the old State of Maturin. State of Mérida, formed by the old State of Mérida, with the parish of Independencia.

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State of Miranda, formed by the old State of Caracas, without the district of Vargas, to-day the department of a federal district.

State of Nueva Esparta, formed by the old State of Margarita.

State of Portugueza, formed by the old State of Portugueza.
State of Sucre, formed by the old State of Cumaná.
State of Táchira, formed by the old State of Táchira.
State of Trujillo, formed by the old State of Trujillo.
State of Yaracuy, formed by the old State of Yaracuy.
State of Zamora. formed by the old State of Barinas.

State of Zulia, formed by the old State of Maracaibo, without the parish of Independencia.

5. The limits of these States are determined by those laid down for the old provinces in the law of the 28th April, 1856, which defined the last territorial division.

Pending controversies and any others which may exist between States with regard to their general limits shall be decided by the tribunal dealt with in Article 144* of this Constitution.

6. Two or more of the political entities mentioned in Article 4† reserve to themselves the right of uniting to form a single State, but they shall always preserve the right of regaining their character as a State. In either case the national Executive, Congress, and the other States of the Union shall be informed.

7. The States making use of the power conferred on them in the previous Article shall preserve the rights laid down in Articles 88 and 1098 of this Constitution for the election of members of the Council of State and of the Federal Court of Cassation.

8. The States are equal among themselves, and the Constitutions that may be fixed for their internal organization must be in harmony with the federal principles established in the present pact.

9. The federal territories of Amazonas and Delta Amacuro, which shall be organized by special law, can opt for the category of States, provided always they fulfil the following conditions:

(1.) That they have at least the population required for the election of a deputy, in conformity with this Constitution.

(2.) That they prove before Congress that they are capable of attending to the public service in all its branches, and of meeting the expenses involved.

10. The federal district, which shall be organized by a special law, shall consist of the town of Caracas, together with the neighbouring parishes: El Recreo, El Valle, La Vega, Antímano, Macarao, Macuto, and the department of Vargas.

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fix its temporary residence in any part of the Federal District, whenever unforeseen circumstances require it.

11. The territory of the nation cannot be alienated, nor leased, nor ceded in any way to a foreign Power.

CHAPTER II.

Section 2. Of the Bases of the Union.

12. The States which form the Venezuelan Union are autonomous and equal in political status; they preserve to the full the sovereignty not delegated in this Constitution, and they are obliged :

(1.) To organize themselves in conformity with the principles of popular, elective, federal, representative, alternative, and responsible government, and, in order to establish rules for their management and internal government to elaborate their Constitutions in conformity with the principles of this fundamental pact.

(2.) To fulfil and cause to be fulfilled and executed the Constitution and the laws of the Union, and the Decrees, Orders, and resolutions which the national authorities may send them in the exercise of their legal attributions and powers.

(3.) To recognize in their respective Constitutions the municipal autonomy of the districts and their independence of the political power of the State, in all that concerns their economic and administrative rule; and, in consequence, the districts shall be able to establish their own financial system, subjecting it to the dispositions laid down in clauses 10, 11, 12, and 13 of this Article. In case of internal or external war, the executive powers of the State shall assume the economic and financial administration of the districts under its jurisdiction, with the consent of their Legislative Assembly, and if this body should not be assembled, with that of the Supreme Court.

(4.) To defend themselves against all violence harmful to their independence or the integrity of the nation.

(5.) Not to alienate any part of their territory to a foreign Power, nor to ask for its protection, nor to establish nor cultivate political nor diplomatic relations with other nations.

(6.) Not to associate nor ally themselves with another nation, nor to separate from Venezuela.

(7.) To cede to the Government of the Federation the territory necessary for the erection of forts, wharves, storehouses, docks, penitentiaries, and other works indispensable for the general administration.

(8.) To allow the Government of the Union the free administration of the territories of Amazonas and Delta Amacure, which shall have the option of entering the category of States when they fulfil the conditions laid down in Article 9 of this Constitution.

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