thereto, as well as the projects of conventions adopted at the Second International Conference of the American States held in Mexico in 1902, and the discussions thereon; also all other questions which give promise of juridical progress, or which tend to eliminate the causes of misunderstanding or conflicts between said States.

ARTICLE 6.

The expense incident to the preparation of the drafts, including the compensation for technical studies made pursuant to article four, shall be defrayed by all the signatory States in the proportion and form established for the support of the International Bureau of the American Republics, of Washington, with the exception of the compensation of the members of the Commission, which shall be paid to the representatives by their respective Governments.

ARTICLE 7.

The Fourth International Conference of the American States shall embody in one or more treaties, the principles upon which an agreement may be reached, and shall endeavor to secure their adoption and ratification by the Nations of America.

ARTICLE 8.

The Governments desiring to ratify this Convention, shall so advise the Government of the United States of Brazil, in order that the said Government may notify, the other Governments through diplomatic channels, such action taking the place of an exchange of Notes.

In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries and Delegates have signed the present Convention, and affixed the Seal of the Third International American Conference.

Made in the city of Rio de Janeiro the twenty-third day of August, nineteen hundred and six, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and deposited with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United States of Brazil, in order that certified copies thereof be made, and sent through diplomatic channels to the signatory States.

FOR ECUADOR-Emilio Arévalo, Olmedo Alfaro.

FOR PARAGUAY-Manuel Gondra, Arsenio López Decoud, Gualberto Cardús y Huerta.

FOR BOLIVIA-Alberto Gutiérrez, Carlos V. Romero.

FOR COLOMBIA-Rafael Uribe Uribe, Guillermo Valencia.

FOR HONDURAS-Fausto Dávila.

FOR PANAMÁ-José Domingo de Obaldía.

FOR CUBA-Gonzalo de Quesada, Rafael Montoro, Antonio González Lanuza.

FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-Emilio C. Joubert.

FOR PERU-Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, Antonio Miró Quesada, Mariana Cornejo.

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL-Joaquim Aurelio Nabuco de Araujo, Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil, Gastão da Cunha, Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira, João Pandiá Calogeras, Amaro Cavalcanti, Joaquim Xavier da Silveira, José P. da Graça Aranha, Antonio da Fontoura Xavier.

FOR EL SALVADOR-Francisco A. Reyes.

FOR COSTA RICA-Ascensión Esquivel.

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF MEXICO-Francisco León de La Barra, Ricardo Molina-Hübbe, Ricardo Garcia Granados.

FOR GUATEMALA-Antonio Batres Jáuregui.

FOR URUGUAY-Luís Melian Lafinur, Antonio María Rodríguez, Gonzalo Ramírez.

FOR THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC-J. V. González, José A. Terry, Eduardo L. Bidau.

FOR NICARAGUA—Luís F. Corea.

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-William I. Buchanan, L. S. Rowe, A. J. Montague, Tulio Larrinaga, Paul S. Reinsch, Van Leer Polk.

FOR CHILI-Anselmo Hevia Riquelme, Joaquín Walker Martínez, Luís Antonio Vergara, Adolfo Guerrero.

1906.

INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CONVENTION.

Signed at Berlin November 3, 1906; ratification advised by the Senate April 3, 1912; ratified by the President April 22, 1912; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of Germany May 17, 1912; proclaimed May 25, 1912.1

The proclamation of the President of May 25, 1912, states that, in addition to the United States, the convention, with service regulations annexed thereto, the supplementary agreement, and the final protocol have been ratified by the Govern

ments of Germany, the Argentine Republic, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, and Turkey, and the ratifications of the said Governments were, by the provisions of Article 23 of the said convention, deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the German Government."

Since the President's proclamation the convention has been ratified by Italy, Greece, and Uruguay.

The proclamation further states that the convention "has been adhered to by the Governments of Morocco and Zanzibar, by the Government of Austria-Hungary on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by the Government of Belgium on behalf of the Kongo Colony, by the Government of Great Britain on behalf of the South African Union, by the Government of Japan on behalf of Korea, Formosa, the Japanese part of Saghalin Island and the leased portion of the Kwangtung Peninsula, by the Government of the Netherlands on behalf of the Dutch Indies and Curaçao Colony, and by the Government of Portugal on behalf of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde Islands, Guinea, St. Thomas and Prince's Island, Goa, Damao, Diu, Macao, and Timor."

It has also been adhered to by the Government of Germany on behalf of all German colonies, by Egypt, by Spain on behalf of her Gulf of Guinea Territories, by the Government of France on behalf of all French colonies, by the Government of Great Britain on behalf of Australia, Canada, India, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and on behalf of Ashanti, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Ceylon, Cyprus, East Africa Protectorate, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Labuan, Leeward Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Northern Nigeria, North-Western Rhodesia, Nyasaland, St. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Southern Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Straits Settlements, Swaziland, Trinidad, Turks Islands, Uganda, Weihaiwei, Western Pacific Protectorates, Windward Islands (viz, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent); by the Government of Italy on behalf of Erythrea and Italian Somaliland, by San Marino, and by Slam.

International wireless telegraph convention concluded between Germany, The United States of America, Argentina, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and Uruguay.

The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries enumerated above, having met in conference at Berlin, have agreed on the following Convention, subject to ratification:

ARTICLE 1.

The High Contracting Parties bind themselves to apply the provisions of the present Convention to all wireless telegraph stations open to public service between the coast and vessels at seaboth coastal stations and stations on shipboard-which are established or worked by the Contracting Parties.

They further bind themselves to make the observance of these provisions obligatory upon private enterprises authorized either to establish or work coastal stations for wireless telegraphy open to the service of public correspondence between the coast and vessels at sea, or to establish or work wireless telegraph stations, whether open to general public service or not, on board of vessels flying their flag.

ARTICLE 2.

By "coastal station" is to be understood every wireless telegraph station established on shore or on board a permanently moored vessel used for the exchange of correspondence with ships at sea.

The convention, service regulations, supplementary agreement, and final protocol were signed and proclaimed in the French language only. The English translation here printed is that given in Treaty Series, No. 568.

Every wireless telegraph station established on board any vessel not permanently moored is called a "station on shipboard."

ARTICLE 3.

The coastal stations and the stations on shipboard shall be bound to exchange wireless telegrams reciprocally without distinction of the wireless telegraph system adopted by such stations.

ARTICLE 4.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, a station may be reserved for a limited public service determined by the object of the correspondence or by other circumstances independent of the system employed.

ARTICLE 5.

Each of the High Contracting Parties undertakes to connect the coastal stations to the telegraph system by special wires, or, at least, to take other measures which will insure a rapid exchange between the coastal stations and the telegraph system.

ARTICLE 6.

The High Contracting Parties shall notify one another of the names of coastal stations and stations on shipboard referred to in Article 1, and also of all data, necessary to facilitate and accelerate the exchange of wireless telegrams, as specified in the Regulations.

ARTICLE 7.

Each of the High Contracting Parties reserves the right to prescribe or permit at the stations referred to in Article 1, apart from the installation the data of which are to be published in conformity with Article 6, the installation and working of other devices for the purpose of establishing special wireless communication without publishing the details of such devices.

ARTICLE 8.

The working of the wireless telegraph stations shall be organized as far as possible in such manner as not to disturb the service of other wireless stations.

ARTICLE 9.

Wireless telegraph stations are bound to give absolute priority to calls of distress from ships, to similarly answer such calls and to take such action with regard thereto as may be required.

ARTICLE 10.

The total charge for wireless telegrams shall comprise: 1. The charge for the maritime transmission, that is:

(a) The coastal rate, which shall fall to the coastal station;

(b) The shipboard rate, which shall fall to the shipboard station.

2. The charge for transmission over the lines of the telegraph system, to be computed according to the general regulations.

The coastal rate shall be subject to the approval of the Government of which the coastal station is dependent, and the shipboard rate to the approval of the Government whose flag the ship is flying,

Each of these rates shall be fixed in accordance with the tariff per word, pure and simple, with an optional minimum rate per wireless telegram, on the basis of an equitable remuneration for the wireless work. Neither rate shall exceed a maximum to be fixed by the High Contracting Parties.

However, each of the High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to authorize higher rates than such maximum in the case of stations of ranges exceeding 800 km. or of stations whose work is exceptionally difficult owing to physical conditions in connection with the installation or working of the same.

For wireless telegrams proceeding from or destined for a country and exchanged directly with the coastal stations of such country, the High Contracting Parties shall advise one another of the rates applicable to the transmission over the lines of their telegraph system. Such rates shall be those resulting from the principle that the coastal station is to be considered as the station of origin or of destination.

ARTICLE 11.

The provisions of the present Convention are supplemented by Regulations, which shall have the same force and go into effect at the same time as the Convention.

The provisions of the present Convention and of the Regulations relating thereto may at any time be modified by the High Contracting Parties by common consent. Conferences of plenipotentiaries or simply administrative conferences, according as the Convention or the Regulations are affected, shall take place from time to time; each conference shall fix the time and place of the next meeting.

ARTICLE 12.

Such conferences shall be composed of delegates of the Governments of the contracting countries.

In the deliberations each country shall have but one vote.

If a Government adheres to the Convention for its colonies, possessions or protectorates, subsequent conferences may decide that such colonies, possessions or protectorates, or a part thereof, shall be considered as forming a country as regards the application of the preceding paragraph. But the number of votes at the disposal of one Government, including its colonies, possessions or protectorates, shall in no case exceed six.

ARTICLE 13.

An International Bureau shall be charged with collecting, coordinating and publishing information of every kind relating to wireless telegraphy, examining the applications for changes in the Convention or Regulations, promulgating the amendments adopted, and