ARTICLE VI. The High Contracting Powers agree that the shipment or export of migratory birds or their eggs from any State or Province, during the continuance of the close season in such State or Province, shall be prohibited except for scientific or propagating purposes, and the international traffic in any birds or eggs at such time captured, killed, taken, or shipped at any time contrary to the laws of the State or Province in which the same were captured, killed, taken, or shipped shall be likewise prohibited. Every package containing migratory birds or any parts thereof or any eggs of migratory birds transported, or offered for transportation from the United States into the Dominion of Canada or from the Dominion of Canada into the United States, shall have the name and address of the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents clearly marked on the outside of such package. ARTICLE VII. Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which, under extraordinary conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or other interests in any particular community, may be issued by the proper authorities of the High Contracting Powers under suitable regulations prescribed therefor by them respectively, but such permits shall lapse, or may be cancelled, at any time when, in the opinion of said authorities, the particular exigency has passed, and no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold or offered for sale. ARTICLE VIII. The High Contracting Powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their respecting appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present Convention.1 ARTICLE IX. The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for fifteen years and in the event of neither of the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its intention of terminating its operation, the Convention shall continue to remain in force for one year and so on from year to year. In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done at Washington this sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] ROBERT LANSING. The act of March 4, 1913, makes the appropriate provision for the execution of the convention under the Department of Agriculture, Biological Survey Bureau. See 37 Statutes at Large, 847. 1918. ARGEEMENT EXTENDING THE DURATION OF THE ARBITRATION CONVENTION OF APRIL 4, 1908. Signed at Washington June 3, 1918; ratification advised by the Senate June 24, 1918; ratified by the President September 20, 1918; ratified by Great Britain July 15, 1918; ratifications exchanged at Washington September 24, 1918; proclaimed September 30, 1918. (Treaty Series, No. 635; 40 Statutes at Large, 1627.) ARTICLES. I. Extends 1908 convention for five II. Ratification. years. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of extending for another five years the period during which the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on April 4, 1908, extended by the agreement concluded between the two Governments on May 31, 1913, shall remain in force, have authorized the undersigned, to wit: Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States and The Earl of Reading, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission to the United States, to conclude the following Articles: ARTICLE I. The Convention of Arbitration of April 4, 1908,1 between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, the duration of which by Article IV thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the said Convention on June 4, 1908, which period by the agreement of May 31, 1913,2 between the two Governments, was extended for five years from June 4, 1913, is hereby extended and continued in force for the further period of five years from June 4, 1918. ARTICLE II. The present agreement shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. Done in duplicate, this third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. ROBERT LANSING. [SEAL.] 1 For text see Vol. I, p. 814. For text see above, p. 2636. 1918. CONVENTION PROVIDING FOR THE RECIPROCAL MILITARY SERVICE OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Signed at Washington June 3, 1918; ratification advised by the Senate June 24, 1918; ratified by the President June 28, 1918; ratified by Great Britain July 1, 1918; ratifications exchanged at London July 30, 1918; proclaimed July 30, 1918. (Treaty Series, No. 633; 40 Statutes at Large, 1620.) ARTICLES. I. Applies laws of each country to citizens or subjects of the other resident therein; modifying provisos. III. Certificates of exemption. V. Return to own country to be fa- VI. Nationality preserved. II. Time limit for choosing service under own flag. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being convinced that for the better prosecution of the present war it is desirable that citizens of the United States in Great Britain and British subjects in the United States shall either return to their own country to perform military service in its army or shall serve in the army of the country in which they remain, have resolved to enter into a Convention to that end and have accordingly appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States; and His Britannic Majesty, The Earl of Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, High Commissioner and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission to the United States, who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers found to be in proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE I. All male citizens of the United States in Great Britain and all male British Subjects in the United States shall, unless before the time limited by this Convention they enlist or enroll in the forces of their own country or return to the United States or Great Britain respectively for the purpose of military service, be subject to military service and entitled to exemption or discharge there from under the laws and regulations from time to time in force of the country in which they are: Provided that in respect to British Subjects in the United States the ages for military service shall be for the time being twenty to forty-four years, both inclusive;1 Provided however that no citizen of the United States in Great Britain and no British Subject in the United States who, before pro 1 Compare exchange of notes of June 3, 1918, below, p. 2652. ceeding to Great Britain or the United States, respectively, was ordinarily resident in a place in the possessions of the United States or in His Majesty's Dominions respectively, where the law does not impose compulsory military service shall, by virtue of this Convention, be liable to military service under the laws and regulations of Great Britain or the United States, respectively; Provided further that in the event of compulsory military service being applied to any part of His Majesty's Dominions in which military service at present is not compulsory, British Subjects who, before proceeding to the United States were ordinarily resident in such part of His Majesty's Dominions, shall thereupon be included within the . terms of this Convention. ARTICLE II. Citizens of the United States and British Subjects within the age limits aforesaid who desire to enter the military service of their own country must, after making such application therefor as may be prescribed by the laws or regulations of the country in which they are, enlist or enroll or must leave Great Britain or the United States as the case may be for the purpose of military service in their own country before the expiration of sixty days after the date of the exchange of ratifications of this Convention, if liable to military service in the country in which they are at the said date; or if not so liable, then before the expiration of thirty days after the time when liability shall accrue; or as to those holding certificates of exemption under Article III of this Convention, before the expiration of thirty days after the date on which any such certificate becomes inoperative unless sooner renewed; or as to those who apply for certificates of exemption under Article III and whose applications are refused, then before the expiration of thirty days after the date of such refusal, unless the application be sooner granted. ARTICLE III. The Government of the United States and His Britannic Majesty's Government may through their respective Diplomatic Representatives issue certificates of exemption from military service to citizens of the United States in Great Britain and British Subjects in the United States respectively, upon application or otherwise, within sixty days from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this Convention, or within thirty days from the date when such citizens or subjects become liable to military service in accordance with Article I, provided that the applications be made or the certificates be granted prior to their entry into the military service of either country. Such certificates may be special or general, temporary or conditional, and may be modified, renewed, or revoked in the discretion of the Government granting them. Persons holding such certificates shall, so long as the certificates are in force, not be liable to military service in the country in which they are. ARTICLE IV. This Convention shall not apply to British Subjects in the United States (a) who were born or naturalized in Canada, and who, before proceeding to the United States, were ordinarily resident in Great Britain or Canada or in any other part of His Majesty's Dominions to which compulsory military service has been or may be hereafter by law applied, or outside the British Dominions; or (b) who were not born or naturalized in Canada, but who, before proceeding to the United States, were ordinarily resident in Canada. ARTICLE V. The Government of the United States and His Britannic Majesty's Government will respectively, so far as possible, facilitate the return of British Subjects and citizens of the United States who may desire to return to their own country for military service, but shall not be responsible for providing transport or the cost of transport for such persons. 组 ARTICLE VI. No citizen or subject of either country who, under the provisions of this Convention, enters the military service of the other, shall, by reason of such service, be considered, after this Convention shall have expired or after his discharge, to have lost his nationality or to be under any allegiance to His Britannic Majesty or to the United States as the case may be. ARTICLE VII. The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States and by His Britannic Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London as soon as possible. It shall come into operation on the date on which the ratifications are exchanged, and shall remain in force until the expiration of sixty days after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice of termination to the other; whereupon any subject or citizen of either country incorporated into the military service of the other under this Convention shall be as soon as possible discharged therefrom. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. DONE in duplicate at Washington the third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. ROBERT LANSING. [SEAL.] EXCHANGE OF NOTES RELATING TO ARTICLE I. (Treaty Series, No. 633; 40 Statutes at Large, 1623.) [The Ambassador of Great Britain on Special Mission to the Secretary of State.] SIR: BRITISH EMBASSY Washington, June 3, 1918. With reference to the Military Service Convention between the United States and Great Britain signed today, I am instructed by His Majesty's Government to explain why the proviso to Article |