them to pass in transit, except in the case of suspension defined in article 8.

ARTICLE 7.

The High Contracting Parties reserve the right to stop the transmission of any private telegram which may appear dangerous to the safety of the State, or which may be contrary to the laws of the country, to public order or good morals.

ARTICLE 8.

Each Government also reserves the right to suspend the international telegraph service for an indefinite period, if deemed necessary by it, either generally, or only over certain lines and for certain classes of correspondence, of which such Government shall immediately notify all the other Contracting Governments.

ARTICLE 11.

Telegrams relating to the international telegraph service of the Contracting States shall be transmitted free of charge over the entire system of such States.

ARTICLE 12.

The High Contracting Parties shall render accounts to one another of the charges collected by each of them.

ARTICLE 17.

The High Contracting Parties reserve respectively the right to enter among themselves into special arrangements of any kind with regard to points of the service which do not interest the States generally.

1910.

ARRANGEMEnt Relative to the REPRESSION OF THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS.

Signed at Paris May 4, 1910; ratification advised by the Senate January 13, 1911; ratified by the President February 4, 1911; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the French Republic March 15, 1911; proclaimed April 13, 1911.

1 The proclamation of the President of April 13, 1911, states that the arrangement "has been duly ratified by the Governments of the United States, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland, and the ratifications of the said Governments were, as provided for by article 6 of the said arrangement, deposited by their respective plenipotentiaries with the Government of the French Republic on March 15, 1911."

Since the President's proclamation the arrangement has been ratified by the Govern ments of Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia.

Adhesions have been made by the Governments of Luxemburg, Norway, by the Govern ment of Denmark on behalf of Iceland and the Danish West Indies, by the Government of Germany for all German colonies, and by the Government of Great Britain on behalf of Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland protectorate, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Ceylon, East Africa protectorate, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Hongkong, India, Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat. St. Christopher and Nevis, Virgin Islands), Malay States, Malta. Mauritius, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Northern Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland protectorate, St. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland protectorate. South Africa, Southern Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Straits Settlements, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Wei-hai Wei, Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), and Zanzibar, and by the Governments of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland.

The Governments of the Powers hereinbelow named, equally desirous of facilitating within the scope of their respective legislation, the mutual interchange of information with a view to tracing and repressing offences connected with obscene publications, have resolved to conclude an arrangement to that end and have, in consequence, designated their plenipotentiaries who met in conference at Paris from April 18 to May 4, 1910, and agreed on the following provisions:

ARTICLE I.

Each one of the Contracting Powers undertakes to establish or designate an authority charged with the duty of

(1) Centralizing all information which may facilitate the tracing and repressing of acts constituting infringements of their municipal law as to obscene writings, drawings, pictures or articles, and the constitutive elements of which bear an international character.

(2) Supplying all information tending to check the importation of publications or articles referred to in the foregoing paragraph and also to insure or expedite their seizure all within the scope of municipal legislation.

(3) Communicating the laws that have already been or may subsequently be enacted in their respective States in regard to the object of the present Arrangement.

The Contracting Governments shall mutually make known to one another, through the Government of the French Republic, the authority established or designated in accordance with the present Article.

ARTICLE II.

The authority designated in Article I shall be empowered to correspond directly with the like service established in each one of the other Contracting States.

ARTICLE III.

The authority designated in Article I shall be bound, if there be nothing to the contrary in the municipal law of its country, to communicate bulletins of the sentences passed in the said country to the similar authorities of all the other Contracting States in cases of offences coming under Article I.

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The arrangement was signed and proclaimed in the French language only. The English translation here printed is that appended to the arrangement as proclaimed in Treaty Series No. 559.

ARTICLE IV.

Non-Signatory States will be permitted to adhere to the present Arrangement. They shall notify their intention to that effect by means of an instrument which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic. The said Government shall send through the diplomatic channel a certified copy of the said instrument to each one of the Contracting States and shall at the same time apprize them of the date of deposit.

Six months after that date the Arrangement will go into effect throughout the territory of the adhering State which will thereby become a Contracting State.

ARTICLE V.

The present Arrangement shall take effect six months after the date of deposit of the ratifications.

In the event of one of the Contracting States denouncing it, the denunciation would only have effect in regard to that State.

The denunciation shall be notified by an instrument which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic. The said Government shall send through the diplomatic channel a certified copy thereof to each one of the Contracting States and at the same time apprize them of the date of deposit.

Twelve months after that date the Arrangement shall cease to be in force throughout the territory of the denouncing State.

ARTICLE VI.

The present Arrangement shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be deposited at Paris as soon as six of the Contracting States shall be in position to do so.

A procés verbal of every deposit of ratifications shall be drawn up and a certified copy thereof shall be delivered through the diplomatic channel to each one of the Contracting States.

ARTICLE VII.

Should a Contracting State wish to enforce the present Arrangement in one or more of its colonies, possessions or consular court districts, it shall notify its intention to that effect by an instrument which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic. The said Government shall send through the diplomatic channel a certified copy to each one of the Contracting States and at the same time apprize it of the date of the deposit.

Six months after that date the Arrangement shall go into effect in the colonies, possessions or consular court districts specified in the instrument of notification.

The denunciation of the Arrangement by one of the Contracting States in behalf of one or more of its colonies, possessions or consular court districts will be effected in the form and under the conditions set forth in the first paragraph of this Article. It will become opera

tive twelve months after the date of the deposit of the instrument of denunciation in the archives of the Government of the French Republic.

ARTICLE VIII.

The present Arrangement which will bear date of May 4, 1910, may be signed at Paris until the following 31st of July by the Plenipotentiaries of the Powers represented at the Conference relative to the repression of the circulation of obscene publications.

Done at Paris, the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and ten in a single copy of which a certified copy shall be delivered to each one of the signatory Powers.

(L. s.)

Signed

A. NEMES,

For Austria:

For Hungary:

For Belgium:

(L. s.)

Signed

(L. S.)

Signed

Chargé d'Affaires of Austria-Hungary.

(L. s.) Signed J. EICHHOFF,

Austrian Imperial and Royal Section Counselor.

(L. s.) Signed G. LERS,

Hungarian Royal Ministerial Counselor.

JULES LEJEUNE,

ISIDORE MAUS.

For Brazil:

1910.

PECUNIARY CLAIMS CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER POWERS REPRESENTED AT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN STATES.

Signed at Buenos Aires August 11, 1910; ratification advised by the Senate February 1, 1911; ratified by the President March 21, 1911; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the Argentine Republic May 1, 1911; proclaimed July 29, 1914.

(Treaty Series, No. 594; 39 Statutes at Large, 1799.)

ARTICLES.

First. Claims submitted; decisions.
Second. Reference to Permanent Court

of Arbitration at The Hague. Third. Special jurisdiction.

Fourth. Effect; duration.

Fifth. Denunciation.

Sixth. Duration of treaty of Mexico concerning pecuniary claims.

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico. Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, and Vene

zuela:

Being desirous that their respective countries may be represented at the Fourth International American Conference, have sent thereto the following delegates, duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions, conventions, and treaties which may be advantageous to the interest of America:

United States of America: Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, David Kinley.

Argentine Republic: Antonio Bermejo, Eduardo L. Bidau, Manuel Ä. Montes de Oca, Epifanio Portela, Carlos Rodríguez Larreta, Carlos Salas, José A. Terry, Estanislao S. Zeballos.

United States of Brazil: Joaquim Murtinho, Domicio da Gama, José L. Almeida Nogueira, Olavo Bilac, Gastão da Cunha, Herculano de Freitas.

Republic of Chile: Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, Emilio Bello Codecido, Aníbal Cruz Díaz, Beltrán Mathieu.

Republic of Colombia: Roberto Ancízar.

Republic of Costa Rica: Alfredo Volio.

Republic of Cuba: Carlos García Vélez, Rafael Montoro y Valdés, Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui, Antonio Gonzalo Pérez, José M. Carbonell.

Dominican Republic: Américo Lugo.

Republic of Ecuador: Alejandro Cárdenas.

Republic of Guatemala: Luis Toledo Herrarte, Manuel Arroyo, Mario Estrada.

Republic of Haiti: Constantin Fouchard.

Republic of Honduras: Luis Lazo Arriaga.

The proclamation of the President of July 29, 1914, states that the convention "has been ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Governments of the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, and the ratifications of the said Governments have been deposited by their respective plenipotentiaries with the Government of the Argentine Republic."

The convention has subsequently been ratified by the Governments of Brazil, Costs Rica, and Uruguay.