Turkey The Turkish Ambassador at Washington transmitted to the Secretary of State with a note dated January 26, 1933, the instrument of ratification by Turkey of the international radio convention signed at Washington November 25, 1927. The ratification is effective as of January 26, 1933. INSTRUMENTS SIGNED AT THE INTERNATIONAL RADIOTELEGRAPH CONFERENCE, MADRID, 1932 On December 9 and 10, 1932, the following eight instruments were signed at the International Radiotelegraph Conference held at Madrid: International Telecommunications Convention Telegraph Regulations Final Telegraph Protocol European Radio Protocol The protocol of the acts of Madrid remained open for signature for 20 days after the closing of the conference. The Department of State has not yet received notifications of signatures additional to those of December 9 and 10, 1932. The telecommunications convention was signed by the following countries: The European Radio Protocol was signed by the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Free City of Danzig, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France and Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, Germany, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Irish Free State, Italy and Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Spanish Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, Vatican City State, and Yugoslavia. All the signatories of the Telecommunications Convention signed the other instruments listed above except as hereafter listed: The General Radiocommunications Regulations: Ethiopia, Luxembourg, Mexico, and Persia; The Additional Radiocommunications Regulations: United States of America, Canada, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, Mexico, and Persia; Final Radio Protocol: Ethiopia, Luxembourg, Mexico, and Persia; Telegraph Regulations: United States of America, Liberia, Nicaragua, and Panama; Final Telegraph Protocol: United States of America, Canada, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Persia, and El Salvador; Telephone Regulations: United States of America, Australia, Canada, China, Ethiopia, French colonies, protectorates and territories under mandate, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Persia, El Salvador, and Venezuela. TEXTS OF TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS [The publication of texts hereunder does not imply that the United DRAFT CONVENTION ON MORTGAGES, OTHER REAL SECURITIES, AND [Translation] CHAPTER I.-On Mortgages and Other Real Securities Article First In the meaning of the present Convention, by aerial mortgage is understood a real security, whatever may be its name and origin, which is inscribed on the register for the publicity of rights and which assigns the aircraft to the payment of a debt the amount of which is likewise inscribed thereon. Article 2 Aerial mortgages regularly constituted and not extinguished, according to the law of the Contracting State on whose register the aircraft is inscribed, shall produce the effects determined by the present Convention. Article 3 The aerial mortgage shall guarantee, equally with the principal sum, the current interests and the interest in arrears for one year, at the rate recorded on the register, as well as the costs of procedure, in so far as they are not privileged by paragraph 1 of Article 11. Article 4 (1) The aerial mortgage shall include the insurance indemnity due in case of loss or damage to the aircraft. (2) It shall not extend to the freight. Article 5 The rank of aerial mortgages with respect to each other shall be determined by the inscription on the register. Article 6 With reservation of the provisions of paragraph 4 of Article 8, and paragraph 5 of Article 13, the aerial mortgage shall take pre 'Adopted at the sixth session of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, Paris, October, 1931. cedence over all claims, even those of the Fisc, which are not privileged by virtue of Article 7. CHAPTER II.-Privileges Article 7* (1) The following shall be paid with preference over aerial mortgage claims: a) The airport fees or fees of any other public aerial navigation b) Compensation due because of salvage or assistance; (2) The rank of said claims with respect to each other shall be determined in the above order. Claims connected with one and the same voyage shall be privileged in the order in which they are arranged in paragraph 1. The claims contemplated under letters b) and c) within each of the said categories shall be paid preferably in the inverse order of the dates when they originated. (3) The right of preference does not include the insurance indemnity. (4) This right expires after a period of three months from the day when the operations which give rise to the privileged claim are completed. Considerations of interruption in the above period shall be determined by the law of the court taking cognizance. CHAPTER III.-Forced Execution Article 8 (1) When an aircraft is attached in order to be sold, or when proceedings of forced execution are begun without preliminary attachment, the competent authorities must apply to the Bureau charged with keeping the register for the publicity of rights to have a record thereof made on the register. (2) The application shall be made out according to the attached form (See Annex A); It may be delivered to the Consul of the country where the register for the publicity of rights is kept, for * It will be for the Governments to safeguard where necessary the interests of the Treasury, either by enlarging, at the Conference, the list in Article 7, or by making reservation, in the final protocol [Protocole de Clôture], of the right to privilege certain fiscal claims. [Footnote in the draft.] The final protocol shall contain a reservation whereby each State is left free to establish among these claims a fixed order, inspired by regard for the interests of the Treasury. [Footnote in the draft.] transmission by telegram to the said Bureau upon payment of the charges. (3) The Bureau charged with keeping the register for the publicity of rights must take the measures necessary in order that, upon receipt of the application, any person coming to consult the inscriptions on the register relative to the attached aircraft may have knowledge thereof, that record thereof may be made on the said register, that the owner and the creditors inscribed may be informed thereof and that a certified true copy of the record, as well as the list of the addresses of the owner and the creditors inscribed, furnished by them, may be sent to the competent authorities indicated in the application. (4) No alienation can be alleged against the attaching or intervening creditor or the beneficiary of the adjudication, if effected after the receipt of the application by the Bureau charged with keeping the register for the publicity of rights or if, at the time of the alienation, the purchaser had knowledge or should reasonably have had knowledge of the opening of the proceedings or of the attachment. The same rule shall apply to the constitution of mortgages and other real rights. Article 9 (1) Sale by authority of justice has for effect the transfer of the property and the settlement of the charges under the conditions determined by the law of the place of the execution. (2) This law must prescribe that the owner and the creditors inscribed shall be notified, at least one month in advance, of the date on or before which they may, in the conditions determined by this law, present their rights, and that, at least one month in advance, the date of the sale shall be communicated to the owner and to the said creditors and published in the place where the register for the publicity of rights is kept. Article 10 Failure to observe the formalities prescribed in Article 9 will have for effect, according to the law of the place of the execution, either nullity of the sale, or the invalidity of the sale as against interested third parties, or compensation by the State for the damage caused. The obligation to pay compensation cannot be made conditional upon reciprocity. Article 11 (1) There shall be deducted from the amount of the adjudication, before distribution thereof, only the court costs incurred in the com |