unanimously by all the delegates, or, failing such an agreement, nominated by the Council of the League of Nations. The award of the arbitrator shall be binding on all the interested parties."

2. Consequently, the text of § 13 mentioned above will henceforth be as follows: :

"As to voting, the Commission will observe the following rules:

When a decision of the Commission is taken, the votes of all the delegates entitled to vote, or, in the absence of any of them, of their assistant delegates, shall be recorded. Abstention from voting is to be treated as a vote against the proposal under discussion. Assessors have no vote.

"On the following questions unanimity is necessary:"(a.) Questions involving the sovereignty of any of the Allied and Associated Powers, or the cancellation of the whole or any part of the debt or obligations of Germany;

(b.) Questions of determining the amount and conditions of bonds or other obligations to be issued by the German Government and of fixing the time and manner for selling, negotiating or distributing such bonds;

"(c.) Any postponement, total or partial, beyond the end of 1930, of the payment of instalments falling due between the 1st May, 1921, and the end of 1926 inclusive;

"(d.) Any postponement, total or partial, of any instalment falling due after 1926 for a period exceeding three years; (e.) Questions of applying, in any particular case, a method of measuring damages different from that which has been previously applied in a similar case;

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(f.) Questions of the interpretation of the provisions of this part of the present Treaty.

"In case of difference of opinion between the delegates as to the interpretation of this part of the present Treaty, the question may be submitted to arbitration by a unanimous agreement of the delegates. The arbitrator must be chosen unanimously by all the delegates, or, failing such an agreement, nominated by the Council of the League of Nations. The award of the arbitrator shall be binding on all the interested parties.

"All other questions shall be decided by the vote of a majority.

In case of any difference of opinion among the delegates which cannot be solved by reference to their Governments, upon the question whether a given case is one which requires a unanimous vote for its decision or not, such difference shall be referred to the immediate arbitration of some impartial person, to be agreed upon by their Governments, whose award the Allied and Associated Governments agree to accept."

3. The present decision shall be notified to the Powers

signatory of the Treaty of Versailles as well as to the Reparation Commission.

Done at Paris, the 22nd November, 1924.

E. HERRIOT.

CREWE.

ROMANO AVEZZANA.
K. ISHII.

E. DE GAIFFIER.

M. SPALAIKOVITCH.

ACCESSIONS to the International Convention for the Prevention of False Indications of Origin on Goods.Washington, June 2, 1911.(1)

THE accessions have been notified of—

Lebanon
Syria

September 1, 1924.
September 1, 1924.

(1) Vol. CIV, page 137.

RATIFICATIONS, &c., of the Convention between Great Britain, China, &c., for the Regulation of the Trade in, and controlling the use of, Opium, &c.-The Hague January 23, 1912. (1)

SIGNATURES of the Protocol respecting the Enforcement of the International Convention of January 23, 1912, (1) relative to Opium, &c.-February 11, 1915-February 11, 1921.(2)

RATIFICATIONS of the International Convention relative to the Archipelago of Spitsbergen.-Paris, February 9, 1920.(1)

RATIFICATIONS of the Convention between the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan relative to the Assessment and Reparation of Damage suffered in Turkey by the Nationals of the Contracting Powers, and Protocol providing for Signature by Roumania.-Paris, November 23, 1923.(1)

COMMERCIAL CONVENTION between Canada and the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg. -Ottawa, July 3, 1924.(')

[Ratifications exchanged at Ottawa, October 22, 1924.]

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, acting both in his own name and in the name of Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg upon the strength of existing Agreements, being desirous of improving and extending the commercial relations between Canada, on the one side, and the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg, on the other side, have resolved to conclude a Convention with that object and have named as their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: the Honourable James Alexander Robb, a member of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council for Canada, a Member of the Parliament of Canada, Acting Minister of Finance and Receiver-General of Canada; the Honourable Henri Severin Beland, a member of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council for Canada, a Member of the Parliament of Canada, Minister of Public Health and of the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment of Canada; and

His Majesty the King of the Belgians: M. de Selys-Fanson, Chevalier of the Orders of Leopold and of the Crown, Counsellor of Legation, Consul-General of Belgium at Ottawa;

Who, after communicating to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. 1. Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada. imported into the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg and articles the produce or manufacture of the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg imported into Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be maintained or imposed on the importation of any article the produce or manufacture of Canada into the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg, or of any

(1) Treaty Series, No. 7 (1925)" (Cmd. 2315). Signed also in the French language.

articles the produce or manufacture of the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg into Canada, which shall not equally extend to the importation of like articles being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country. This last provision is not applicable to the sanitary and other prohibitions occasioned by the necessity of protecting the safety of persons or of cattle, or of plants useful to agriculture.

2. Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada exported to the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg and articles the produce or manufacture of the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg exported to Canada shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges than those paid on the like articles exported to any other foreign country. Nor shall any prohibition or restriction be imposed on the exportation of any article from Canada to the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg or from the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg to Canada which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country.

3. Articles the produce or manufacture of Canada passing in transit through the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg and articles the produce or manufacture of the territory of the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg passing in transit through Canada shall be reciprocally free from all transit duties whether they pass through direct or whether during transit they are unloaded, warehoused or reloaded.

4. It is understood that in all matters governing the import, export and transit of merchandise, the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg grants to Canada and Canada grants to the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg the treatment of the most favoured nation.

5. The name "The Economic Union of Belgium and Luxemburg," wherever used in this Convention shall be held to include the colonies and possessions of Belgium and also territory of which Belgium is mandatory under the provisions of the League of Nations.

The present Convention, after being approved by the Parliaments of Canada and Belgium, shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Ottawa as soon as possible. It shall come into force immediately after the exchange of the said ratifications and shall be binding upon the Contracting Parties during a period of four years from the date of its coming into force. In case neither of the Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other twelve months before the expiration of the said period of four years of its intention to terminate the present Convention it shall remain in force