Lazarus, Hubert Lennon, James Lewis, William Marcelle, Maximin Ovid, James Ovid, Thomas Martin Peña, Joseph Philip, Alfred Robert, Arthur Robert, Nathaniel Robert, Sheppard Robert, Sunny Robert, Daniel Robinson, Joseph Rochemond, Patrick Rodriguez, Alexander Ruiz, Andrew Ruiz, William Sylvestre, Nathan Thomas, David Warner, Francis Washington, Robert Wilson. And have agreed that these claims shall be adjusted and extinguished by a payment which the Government of Venezuela shall make of the sum of seventy-five thousand bolivars (B. 75,000). The said sum of seventy-five thousand bolivars shall be handed to His Majesty's Legation in Caracas, by the Government of Venezuela, within one month from the date of the approval of this Agreement by the Congress of the United States of Venezuela, for its distribution amongst the claimants. The present Agreement shall be submitted to the approval of the National Congress in its next sessions. In faith of which we undersign the present Agreement in duplicate, in Caracas, the 22nd day of March, 1921. HENRY BEAUMONT. E. GIL BORGES. TRADE AGREEMENT between Canada and France.Paris, January 29, 1921.* PENDING the conclusion of a new Commercial Convention, with a view to which negotiations will begin immediately, the French and Canadian Governments have agreed to the following provisions: ART. I. Canada shall apply to products originating in and coming from France the most favourable tariffs and taxes that are or may be granted by Canada to the products of any third Power, except those of the United Kingdom or of British Dominions and Possessions. II. Canada shall also accord most-favoured-nation treatment as regards exportation, transit, consumption taxes and other internal duties. III. The French Government agrees to continue for the benefit of Canadian products imported into France, until the conclusion of the new Commercial Convention, the application of the régime laid down in the Conventions of 1907 and 1909, with the modifications and additions provided for by the following Articles: "Treaty Series, No. 16 (1921)." Signed in the French language. For the French text, see League of Nations Treaty Series," No. 212. Vol. CII, page 77. Vol. CI, page 764. IV. Of the goods enumerated in Schedule A annexed to the Convention of 1907, those specified in Schedule I, attached hereto, shall cease to benefit by the minimum tariff. On importation to France they shall enjoy a percentage rebate of duty as indicated in that list. This percentage shall be based on the difference between the rates of the general and minimum tariffs, and the percentage will remain the same whatever increases or decreases in duties, coefficients or surtaxes may be made by France in the future. V. In addition to the products enumerated in Schedule (A) of the Convention of 1907, France shall admit the articles enumerated in Schedule II, attached hereto, to the benefit of the minimum tariff or at a percentage rebate of the duty, as laid down in the Schedule. This percentage, as fixed by said Schedule, will be based on the difference between the general and minimum tariffs, and will remain the same whatever increases or reductions in duties, coefficients or surtaxes may be made by France in the future. VI. The present Arrangement shall remain in force until the conclusion of a new Commercial Convention, but either of the High Contracting Parties may denounce it after four months' notice. In witness thereof the representatives appointed for the purpose have signed this Arrangement. Done in duplicate at Paris, the 29th day of January, 1921. HARDINGE OF PENSHURST. GEORGE E. FOSTER. (L.S.) (L.S.) [CXIV] MINIMUM TARIFF. Description of Products. Foundry-iron and forge-pig for refining, con- Rich silico-spiegel iron containing at least 30 Ferro-aluminium containing more than 10 per 2 E Percentage. 15 En foi de quoi les soussignés, dûment autorisés par leurs Gouvernements respectifs, ont signé la présente Convention et y ont apposé leurs cachets. Fait en double à Stockholm le 8 juillet 1921. EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and Sweden concerning the Importation from Great Britain into Sweden of Morphine and similar Drugs.-Stockholm, August 29, 1921.* (No. 1.) The British Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs. Your Excellency, Stockholm, August 29, 1921. I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that in pursuance of the steps which His Majesty's Government are taking to assist in preventing the improper consumption of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs, they have prohibited the exportation from the United Kingdom to all destinations of the drugs specified below, except under licence. Applications for the grant of licences for exportation to Sweden should be accompanied by certificates previously issued under the authority of the Royal Swedish Government to the effect that the Royal Swedish Government are satisfied that the consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal or scientific purposes and will not be re-exported. The drugs for which certificates will be required are raw opium, morphine, cocaine, ecgonine and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin) and their respective salts, and medicinial 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 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 am directed by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to express the hope of His Majesty's Govern ment that the Royal Swedish Government will assent to the 'League of Nations Treaty Series," No. 160. above arrangement and will be prepared to issue the necessary certificates to bona fide importers as proposed by His Majesty's Government. I avail, &c. PATRICK RAMSAY. (No. 2.)-The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the British Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm. Sir, Stockholm, August 29, 1921. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of to-day's date in which you are good enough to inform me that in pursuance of the steps which His Britannic Majesty's Government are taking to assist in preventing the improper consumption of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs they have prohibited the exportation from the United Kingdom to all destinations of the drugs specified below, except under licence, and that applications for the grant of licences for exportation to Sweden should be accompanied by certificates previously issued under the authority of the Royal Swedish Government to the effect that the Royal Swedish Government are satisfied that the consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal or scientific purposes and will not be re-exported. Furthermore, it is stated in your Note that the drugs for which certificates will be required are raw 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 onetenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine. In conclusion, you add that 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. In reply to this communication I have the honour to state that the Swedish Government assent to the arrangement proposed and will be prepared to issue the necessary certificates to bona fide importers in the form proposed by His Britannic Majesty's Government. It is intended that these certificates should be issued by the Royal Medical Board under the authority of the Swedish Government. I avail, &c. HERMAN WRANGEL. ACCESSION to the Convention between Great Britain and the United States relating to the Disposal of Real and Personal Property.-Signed at Washington, March 2, 1899.* Hawaiian Islands ... October 5, 1921. CORRESPONDENCE between the British Government and the Government of the United States of America respecting Economic Rights in Mandated Territories.-May 1920February 1921.† (No. 1.)—Mr. Davis to Earl Curzon.—(Received May 13.) Embassy of the United States of America, My Lord, 2. The Government of the United States desires to point out that during the peace negotiations at Paris leading up to the Treaty of Versailles, it consistently took the position that the future peace of the world required that, as a general principle, any alien territory which should be acquired pursuant to the Treaties of Peace with the Central Powers, must be held and governed in such a way as to assure equal treatment in law and in fact to the commerce of all nations. It was on account of, and subject to this understanding that the United States felt itself able and willing to agree that the acquisition of certain enemy territory by the victorious Powers would be consistent with the best interests of the world. The representatives of the principal Allied Powers, in the discussion of the mandate principles, expressed in no indefinite manner their recognition of the justice and far-sightedness of such a principle, and agreed to its application to the mandates over Turkish territory. 3. The administration of Palestine and Mesopotamia during the interim period of military occupation has given rise to several communications between the United States Government and that of Great Britain relative to matters * Vol. XCI, page 119. + Parliamentary Paper, "Miscellaneous, No. 10 (1921)." Vol. CXII, page 1. |