The rights conferred by this article extend equally to companies and associations organized in accordance with the law of any of the members of the League of Nations, subject only to the requirements of public order, and on condition of compliance with the local law. ARTICLE 7.-The Mandatory shall ensure in the territory complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship which are consonant with public order and morality; missionaries who are nationals of states members of the League of Nations shall be free to enter the territory and to travel and reside therein, to acquire and possess property, to erect religious buildings and to open schools throughout the territory; it being understood, however, that the Mandatory shall have the right to exercise such control as may be necessary for the maintenance of public order and good government, and to take all measures required for such control. ARTICLE 8.-The Mandatory shall apply to the territory any general international conventions applicable to his contiguous territory. ARTICLE 9.-The Mandatory shall have full powers of administration and legislation in the area subject to the mandate. This area shall be administered in accordance with the laws of the Mandatory as an integral part of his territory and subject to the above provisions. The Mandatory shall therefore be at liberty to apply his laws to the territory subject to the mandate, with such modifications as may be required by local conditions, and to constitute the territory into a customs, fiscal, or administrative union or federation with the adjacent territories under his sovereignty or control, provided always that the measures adopted to that end do not infringe the provisions of this mandate. ARTICLE 10.- The Mandatory shall make to the Council of the League of Nations an annual report to the satisfaction of the Council. This report shall contain full information concerning the measures taken to apply the provisions of this mandate. ARTICLE 11.-The consent of the Council of the League of Nations is required for any modification of the terms of the present mandate. ARTICLE 12.- The Mandatory agrees that, if any dispute whatever should arise between the Mandatory and another member of the League of Nations relating to the interpretation or the application of the provisions of the mandate, such dispute, if it cannot be settled by negotiation, shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice provided for by Article 14 of the Convenant of the League of Nations, Whereas the United States of America, by participating in the war against Germany, contributed to her defeat and to the renunciation of her rights and titles over her oversea possessions, but has not ratified the Treaty of Versailles; and Whereas the Government of the United States and the Government of the French Republic desire to reach a definite understanding with regard to the rights of the two governments and their respective nationals in the aforesaid former German colony of Togoland: Have decided to conclude a convention to this effect, and have nominated as their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States of America: His Excellency Mr. Myron T. Herrick, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Paris, And the President of the French Republic: M. Raymond Poincaré, Senator, President of the Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Who, after communicating to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following provisions: ARTICLE 1 Subject to the provisions of the present convention, the United States consents to the administration by the Government of the French Republic, pursuant to the aforesaid mandate, of the former German territory, described in Article 1 of the mandate. ARTICLE 2 The United States and its nationals shall have and enjoy all the rights and benefits secured under the terms of Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the mandate to members of the League of Nations and their nationals, notwithstanding the fact that the United States is not a member of the League of Nations. ARTICLE 3 Vested American property rights in the mandated territory shall be respected and in no way impaired. ARTICLE 4 A duplicate of the annual report to be made by the Mandatory under Article 10 of the mandate shall be furnished to the United States. ARTICLE 5 Nothing contained in the present convention shall be affected by any modification which may be made in the terms of the mandate as recited above unless such modification shall have been assented to by the United States. ARTICLE 6 The extradition treaties and conventions in force between the United States and France shall apply to the mandated territory. ARTICLE 7 The present convention shall be ratified in accordance with the respective constitutional methods of the high contracting parties. The ratifications shall be exchanged in Paris as soon as practicable. It shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this convention and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate at Paris, the 13th day of February, in the year 1923. [SEAL] MYRON T. HERRICK. [SEAL] R. POINCARÉ. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND NORWAY FOR THE PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS 1 Signed at Washington, May 24, 1924; ratifications exchanged at Washington, July 2, 1924 The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Norway being desirous of avoiding any difficulties which might arise between them in connection with the laws in force in the United States on the subject of alcoholic beverages have decided to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State of the United States; His Majesty the King of Norway, Helmer H. Bryn, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Who, having communicated their full powers found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: ARTICLE I The high contracting parties respectively retain their rights and claims, without prejudice by reason of this agreement with respect to the extent of their territorial jurisdiction. ARTICLE II (1) His Majesty agrees that he will raise no objection to the boarding of private vessels under the Norwegian flag outside the limits of territorial waters by the authorities of the United States, its territories or possessions in order that enquiries may be addressed to those on board and an examination be made of the ship's papers for the purpose of ascertaining whether the vessel or those on board are endeavoring to import or have imported alcoholic beverages into the United States, its territories or possessions in violation of the laws there in force. When such enquiries and examination show a reasonable ground for suspicion, a search of the vessel may be initiated. (2) If there is reasonable cause for belief that the vessel has committed or is committing or attempting to commit an offense against the laws of the United States, its territories or possessions prohibiting the importation of alcoholic beverages, the vessel may be seized and taken into a port of the United States, its territories or possessions for adjudication in accordance with such laws. (3) The rights conferred by this article shall not be exercised at a greater distance from the coast of the United States its territories or possessions than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected of endeavoring to commit the offense. In cases, however, in which the liquor is intended to be conveyed to the United States its territories or possessions by a vessel other 1 U. S. Treaty Series, No. 689. than the one boarded and searched, it shall be the speed of such other vessel and not the speed of the vessel boarded, which shall determine the distance from the coast at which the right under this article can be exercised. ARTICLE III No penalty or forfeiture under the laws of the United States shall be applicable or attach to alcoholic liquors or to vessels or persons by reason of the carriage of such liquors, when such liquors are listed as sea stores or cargo destined for a port foreign to the United States, its territories or possessions on board Norwegian vessels voyaging to or from ports of the United States, or its territories or possessions or passing through the territorial waters thereof, and such carriage shall be as now provided by law with respect to the transit of such liquors through the Panama Canal, provided that such liquors shall be kept under seal continuously while the vessel on which they are carried remains within said territorial waters and that no part of such liquors shall at any time or place be unladen within the United States, its territories or possessions. ARTICLE IV Any claim by a Norwegian vessel for compensation on the grounds that it has suffered loss or injury through the improper or unreasonable exercise of the rights conferred by Article II of this treaty or on the ground that it has not been given the benefit of Article III shall be referred for the joint consideration of two persons, one of whom shall be nominated by each of the high contracting parties. Effect shall be given to the recommendations contained in any such joint report. If no joint report can be agreed upon, the claim shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague described in the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague, October 18, 1907. The arbitral tribunal shall be constituted in accordance with Article 87 (Chapter IV) and with Article 59 (Chapter III) of the said convention. The proceedings shall be regulated by so much of Chapter IV of the said convention and of Chapter III thereof (special regard being had for Articles 70 and 74, but excepting Articles 53 and 54) as the tribunal may consider to be applicable and to be consistent with the provisions of this agreement. All sums of money which may be awarded by the tribunal on account of any claim shall be paid within eighteen months after the date of the final award without interest and without deduction, save as hereafter specified. Each government shall bear its own expenses. The expenses of the tribunal shall be defrayed by a ratable deduction of the amount of the sums awarded by it, at a rate of five per cent, on such sums, or at such lower rate as may be agreed upon between the two governments; the deficiency, if any, shall be defrayed in equal moieties by the two governments. ARTICLE V This treaty shall be subject to ratification and shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications. Three months before the expiration of the said period of one year, either of the high contracting parties may give notice of its desire to propose modifications in the terms of the treaty. If such modifications have not been agreed upon before the expiration of the term of one year mentioned above, the treaty shall lapse. If no notice is given on either side of the desire to propose modifications, the treaty shall remain in force for another year, and so on automatically, but subject always in respect of each such period of a year to the right on either side to propose as provided above three months before its expiration modifications in the treaty, and to the provision that if such modifications are not agreed upon before the close of the period of one year, the treaty shall lapse. ARTICLE VI In the event that either of the high contracting parties shall be prevented either by judicial decision or legislative action from giving full effect to the provisions of the present treaty the said treaty shall automatically lapse, and, on such lapse or whenever this treaty shall cease to be in force, each high contracting party shall enjoy all the rights which it would have possessed had this treaty not been concluded. The present convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Majesty the King of Norway; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention in duplicate in the English and Norwegian languages and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER POWERS RELATING TO SPITZBERGEN 1 Signed at Paris, February 9, 1920; Ratifications of the United States The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the King of |