spirituous liquors containing more than 20 per centum by volume of alcohol, when imported into the dominions of His Highness the Sultan from abroad in vessels of the United States shall be subject to an entry or import duty not exceeding 25 per centum ad valorem. Provided that no other or higher import duties shall be so levied and collected upon spirits carried to Zanzibar in vessels of the United States than are levied and collected upon like imports of spirits in the vessels of any other nation. ARTICLE II. The Consuls of the United States appointed under the stipulations of the IXth article of the Treaty abovementioned, shall in addition to the rights, powers and immunities secured by said article, enjoy all the rights, privileges, immunities and jurisdictional powers which are now or may hereafter be enjoyed by the Consuls and Consular Agents of the most favored nations and conversely, the Consuls and Consular Agents which His Highness the Sultan may appoint to reside in the United States shall have the treatment of Agents of like grade of the most favored nation. ARTICLE III. This treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications exchanged at Zanzibar, as soon as possible. Done in duplicate each copy being in the English and Arabic languages, at Zanzibar the third day of July 1886, corresponding to the thirtieth day of the moon called Ramajan in the year of the Hegira, 1303. FREDERIC M. CHENEY, U. S. Consul. [SEAL] MOHAMET SALIM BIN MAHOMMED ALI MAVLI. [SEAL] INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND ACTS TO WHICH THE UNITED STATES IS A PARTY. 1864.@ AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED IN TIME Of War. Concluded at Geneva, Switzerland, August 22, 1864; ratifications exchanged by original signatories June 22, 1865; adhesion declared by the President March 1, 1882; accession advised by the Senate March 16, 1882; adhesion accepted by the Swiss Confederation June 9, 1882; proclaimed July 26, 1882. (The President's ratification of the act of accession, as transmitted to Berne and exchanged for the ratifications of the other signatory and adhesory powers, embraces the French text of the convention of August 22, 1864, and the additional articles of October 20, 1868. The French text is, therefore, for all international purposes, the standard one. The text printed here is from the proclamation of the President. The adhesion of the following States has been communicated: Sweden and Norway, December 13, 1864; Greece, January 5-17, 1865; Great Britain, February 18, 1865; Mecklenburg-Schwerin, March 9, 1865; Turkey, July 5, 1865; Württemberg, June 2, 1866; Hesse, June 22, 1866; Bavaria, June 30, 1866; Austria, July 21, 1866; Portugal, August 9, 1866; Saxony, October 25, 1866; Russia, May 10-22, 1867; Persia, December 5, 1874; Roumania, November 18-30, 1874; Salvador, December 30, 1874; Montenegro, November, 17-29, 1875; Servia, March 24, 1876; Bolivia, October 16, 1879; Chile, November 15, 1879; Argentine Republic, November 25, 1879; Peru, April 22, 1880; Bulgaria, May 27, 1884; Japan, June 11, 1886; Kongo Free State, January 25, 18S9; Venezuela, August 2, 1894; Uruguay, June 20, 1900; Korea, January 8, 1903; Guatemala, April 13, 1903; China, June 29, 1904; Mexico, June 24, 1905; Colombia, June 7, 1906; Brazil, January 26, 1907. Paraguay, Cuba. Dominican Republic, and Haiti: Notice of adhesion given by the Swiss minister at Washington on July 15, 1907; the date of the respective adhesions not given. Panama, notice of adhesion given by Swiss minister at Washington August 5, 1907; Ecuador adhered August 3, 1907.) The Swiss Confederation; His Royal Highness the Grand-Duke of Baden; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King of Denmark; Her Majesty the Queen of Spain; His Majesty the Emperor of the French; His Royal Highness the Grand-Duke of Hesse; Article 31 of convention of July 6, 1906, provides: "The present convention, when duly ratified, shall supersede the convention of August 22, 1864, in the relations between the contracting States. "The convention of 1864 remains in force in the relations between the parties who signed it, but who may not also ratify the present convention." 24449-VOL 2-10--43 1903 His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the King of the Netherlands; His Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves; His Majesty the King of Prussia; His Majesty the King of Würtemberg, being equally animated with the desire to soften, as much as depends on them, the evils of warfare, to suppress its useless hardships and improve the fate of wounded soldiers on the field of battle, have resolved to conclude a convention to that effect, and have named for their plenipotentiaries, viz: The Swiss Confederation: Guillaume Henri Dufour, Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, General in Chief of the federal army, Member of the Council of the State; Gustave Moynier, President of the International Relief Committee for wounded soldiers and of the Geneva Society of Public Utility; and Samuel Lehmann, federal Colonel, Doctor in Chief of the federal army, Member of the National Council; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden: Robert Volz, Knight of the Order of the Lion of Zahringen, M. D., Medical Councillor at the Direction of Medical Affairs; and Adolphe Steiner, Knight of the Order of the Lion of Zæhringen, Chief Staff Physician; His Majesty the King of the Belgians: Auguste Visschers, Officer of the Order of Leopold, Councillor at the Council of Mines; His Majesty the King of Denmark: Charles Emile Fenger, Commander of the Order of Danebrog, decorated with the silver cross of the same Order; Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, &c., &c., His Councillor of State; Her Majesty the Queen of Spain: Don José Heriberto García de Quevedo, Gentleman of her Chamber on active service, Knight of the Grand Cross of Isabella-the-Catholic, Numerary Commander of the Order of Charles III, Knight of the first class of the Royal and Military Order of St. Ferdinand, Officer of the Legion of Honor of France, Her Minister-Resident to the Swiss Confederation; His Majesty the Emperor of the French: Georges Charles Jagerschmidt, Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia of the third class, &c., &c., Sub-Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Henri Eugène Séguineau de Préval, Knight of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, decorated with the Imperial Order of the Medjidié of fourth class, Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus of Italy, &c., &c., military Sub-Commissioner of first class, and Martin François Boudier, Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honor, decorated with the Imperial Order of the Medjidié of the fourth class, decorated with the Medal of Military Valor of Italy, &c., &c., doctor in chief of second class; His Royal Highness the Grand-Duke of Hesse: Charles Auguste Brodrück, Knight of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous, of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Officer of the Royal Order of the Holy Savior, &c., &c., Chief of Battalion, Staff Officer; |