Such payments, as well as any payment required under the provisions of Article XXII, shall be made in sterling by means of drafts payable on demand at London.

Any amount remaining due from one Administration to the other at the expiration of six months following the period covered by the relative account shall thenceforth be subject to interest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.

XXIV. Should it appear at any time that money orders are used by mercantile men or other persons in the United Kingdom, or in Latvia, for the transmission of large sums of money, the British Post Office or the Post and Telegraph Office of Latvia, as the case may be, shall be authorised to increase the commission, and shall have power even wholly to suspend, for a time, the issue of money orders.

XXV. The Postal Administration of each country shall be authorised to adopt any additional rules (if not in contradiction to the foregoing) for greater security against fraud, or for the better working of the system generally.

All such additional rules, however, must be communicated to the Postal Administration of the other country.

XXVI. This Agreement shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1922, and shall be terminable on a notice by either party of six calendar months.

Done in duplicate and signed at London on the 17th day of October, 1922, and at Riga on the 12th day of September, 1922.

(L.S.) F. G. KELLAWAY. (L.S.) ED. KADIKIS.

[Appendices not reproduced.]

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Lithuania respecting Commercial Relations.-May 6, 1922.*

(No. 1.)-Mr. Wilton to the Lithuanian Minister for Foreign

Sir,

Affairs.

Riga, May 6, 1922. IT being the desire of our respective Governments to establish close commercial relations between the United Kingdom and Lithuania, I have the honour to inform you that my Government is prepared to undertake, on condition of reciprocity, that Lithuanian nationals and goods the produce or manufacture of Lithuania shall enjoy in the United Kingdom treatment which, subject to the special reservations referred to in paragraph 5 of this note, shall be at least as "Treaty Series, No. 9 (1922).”

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favourable in all respects as that accorded to the nationals of and goods the produce or manufacture of the most favoured foreign country. This treatment shall be accorded in all matters of commerce and navigation and as regards importation, exportation and transit, and in general in all that concerns customs duties and formalities and commercial operations, the establishment of Lithuanian citizens in the United Kingdom, the exercise of commerce, industries and professions, and the payment of taxes.

2. Lithuanian vessels shall enjoy in the ports, rivers and territorial waters of the United Kingdom treatment not less favourable than that accorded to British vessels or the vessels of the most favoured foreign country, subject, however, to the right of His Britannic Majesty's Government to reserve the coasting trade to British vessels.

3. His Britannic Majesty's Government further undertakes, on condition of reciprocity, to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails in transit to or from Lithuania over the United Kingdom, including territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favourably as British persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails respectively, or those of any other more favoured nationality, origin, importation or ownership as regards facilities, charges, restrictions and all other matters.

4. The foregoing stipulations will not be applicable to India or to any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates beyond the seas, unless notice of accession to this arrangement shall have been given on behalf of India or any such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate by His Britannic Majesty's representative in the Baltic States before the expiration of twelve months from this date. Nevertheless, goods the produce or manufacture of India or of any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates will enjoy in Lithuania complete and unconditional most-favoured-nation treatment, so long as India or such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate accords to goods the produce or manufacture of Lithuania treatment as favourable as that accorded to the produce of the soil or industry of any other foreign country.

5. It is understood that nothing in this Agreement shall be held to confer any right or impose any obligation upon either party which might be in conflict with any general international convention to which the Lithuanian or His Britannic Majesty's Government is, or hereafter may be, a party.

6. Effect will be given immediately to the undertaking contained in this note, and will continue to be so given until the conclusion of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation between the two countries, subject, however, to the right of either party at any time to give notice to the other to

terminate the arrangement, which shall then remain in force until the expiration of three months from the date on which such notice is given.

As regards India and the British dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates which may have acceded to this arrangement in virtue of the provisions of paragraph 4, either of our respective Governments shall have the right to terminate it separately on giving three months' notice to that effect. I have, &c.

E. C. WILTON,

British Commissioner for Lithuania.

(No. 2.) The Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Wilton.

Sir,

Kovno, May 6, 1922. IT being the desire of our respective Governments to establish close commercial relations between Lithuania and the United Kingdom, I have the honour to inform you that my Government is prepared to undertake, on condition of reciprocity, that British subjects and goods the produce cr manufacture of the United Kingdom shall enjoy in Lithuania treatment which, subject to the special reservations referred to in paragraph 5 of this note, shall be at least as favourable in all respects as that accorded to the nationals of and goods the produce or manufacture of the most favoured foreign country. This treatment shall be accorded in all matters of commerce and navigation and as regards importation, exportation and transit, and in general in all that concerns customs duties and formalities and commercial operations, the establishment of British subjects in Lithuania, the exercise of commerce, industries and professions, and the payment of taxes.

2. British vessels shall enjoy in the ports, rivers and territorial waters of Lithuania treatment not less favourable than that accorded to Lithuanian vessels or the vessels of the most favoured foreign country, subject, however, to the right of the Lithuanian Government to reserve the coasting and internal trade to Lithuanian vessels.

3. The Lithuanian Government further undertakes, on condition of reciprocity, to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails in transit to or from the United Kingdom over Lithuanian territory, including territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favourably as Lithuanian persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails respectively, or those of any other more

favoured nationality, origin, importation or ownership as regards facilities, charges, restrictions and all other matters.

4. The foregoing stipulations will not be applicable to India or to any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions or protectorates beyond the seas, unless notice of accession to this arrangement shall have been given on behalf of India or any such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate by His Britannic Majesty's representative in the Baltic States before the expiration of twelve months from this date. Nevertheless, goods the produce or manufacture of India or of any of His Britannic Majesty's dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates will enjoy in Lithuania complete and unconditional most-favoured-nation treatment, so long as India or such dominion, colony, possession or protectorate accords to goods the produce or manufacture of Lithuania treatment as favourable as that accorded to the produce of the soil or industry of any other foreign country.

5. It is understood that nothing in this Agreement shall be held to confer any right or impose any obligation upon either party which might be in conflict with any general international convention to which the Lithuanian or His Britannic Majesty's Government is, or hereafter may be, a party.

6. Effect will be given immediately to the undertaking contained in this note, and will continue to be so given until the conclusion of a definitive treaty of commerce and navigation between the two countries, subject, however, to the right of either party at any time to give notice to the other to terminate the arrangement, which shall then remain in force until the expiration of three months from the date on which such notice is given.

As regards India and the British dominions, colonies, possessions and protectorates which may have acceded to this arrangement in virtue of the provisions of paragraph 4, either of our respective Governments shall have the right to terminate it separately on giving three months' notice to that effect.

I have, &c.

V. JURGUTIS.

AGREEMENT prolonging the Duration of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Muscat, of March 19, 1891.-Muscat, February 11, 1922.

WE, the undersigned, have agreed to what follows:

That Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Oman, signed on the 8th day of

Shaban, 1308 H., corresponding to the 19th March, 1891,* will be prolonged by this writing, notwithstanding all, or any correspondence between His late Highness Syud Faisal-binTurki and the glorious British Government in the matter of the revision of that Treaty, and it will remain in force for a period of one year from this 11th day of February, 1922, corresponding to the 13th Jamadi-Al-Akhir, 1340 H., unless a suitable Treaty by agreement between His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the glorious British Government be substituted for that ancient Treaty aforesaid.

In confirmation thereof, we, that is, I, Taimur-bin-Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, with my own hand, and I, Major M. E. Rae, I.A., duly authorised agent for that purpose on behalf of the glorious British Government, have signed this writing and five copies and have affixed our seals

thereto.

Done at Muscat, this 11th day of February, 1922, corresponding to the 13th Jamadi-Al-Akhir, 1340 H.

(L.S.) M. E. RAE, Major,

Political Agent, Muscat. (Seal and Signature of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.)

EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and Norway relative to the Importation from Great Britain into Norway of Opium and Similar Drugs.-Christiania, March 9 and December 16, 1921.

(No. 1.)-The British Minister at Christiania to the Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

M. le Ministre,

Christiania, March 9, 1921. I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency 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. Applications for the grant of licences for exportation to Norway should be accompanied by certificates previously issued under the authority of the Norwegian Government to the effect that the Norwegian 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

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