6.-(1.) Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen (C) hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. (2.) The despatch note shall, moreover, be impressed by the office of origin, on the address side, with a stamp indicating the place and date of posting. 7. The parcels shall be entered by the despatching office of exchange on a parcel-bill in conformity with specimen (D) appended to the present Regulations, with all the details required by this form. The despatch notes and the Customs declarations must be securely attached to the parcel-bill. 8.-(1.) On the receipt of a parcel-bill, the receiving office of exchange shall proceed to verify the parcels, and the various documents entered on the bill, and, if needful, shall report missing articles or any irregularities by means of a verification note in conformity with the annexed specimen (E). (2.) Any differences which may arise in the credits and accounting must be notified to the despatching office by verification note. The verification notes must be attached to the parcel-bills to which they relate. Corrections not supported by vouchers are not admitted by the auditors. 9.-(1.) Missent parcels shall be forwarded to their destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the office re-transmitting them. When this re-transmission shall involve the return of the parcel to the office of origin, the amounts credited in the parcel-bill of that office shall be cancelled, and the re-transmitting office of exchange shall send back the parcels to the office from which it received them, simply recording them on the parcel-bill. Attention shall be called to the error by means of a verification note. (2.) In other cases, and if the amount credited to the retransmitting office shall be insufficient to cover the expenses of re-transmission which it has to defray, it shall recover the difference by raising the amount entered to its credit in the parcel-bill of the despatching office of exchange. The reason of this rectification shall be notified to the said office by means of a verification note. (3.) Parcels re-directed to a country which participates in the Parcel Post between the United Kingdom and the Argentine Republic will be subjected by the delivering office to a charge, to be paid by the addressees, representing the sums due to this latter office, to the re-directing office, and to each intermediate office, if there be any. (4.) Each office which forwards a re-directed parcel shall claim on the parcel-bill the amount due for the conveyance of the parcel. (5.) But if the amount chargeable for the further conveyance of a re-directed parcel shall be paid at the time of i direction, the parcel shall be dealt with addressed direct from the re-transmitting of destination, and delivered without any postal charge to the addressee. (6.) The senders of parcels which cannot be delivered shall be consulted as to the disposal of the parcels. (7.) If, within six months after the despatch of a letter of enquiry, the office of destination shall not have received instructions from the sender, the parcel shall be returned to the office of origin. (8.) Articles liable to deterioration or corruption, and these only, may, however, be sold immediately, without previous notice or legal formality, for the benefit of the right party. An account of the sale shall be drawn up. The sum realized by the sale shall be used in the first place to defray the charges upon the parcel. Any balance which there may be shall be remitted to the office of origin to be paid to the sender. If for any reason a sale is impossible, the spoilt or worthless articles are destroyed or taken possession of by the Customs. (9.) Parcels which have to be returned to the country of origin shall be entered on the parcel-bill with the addition of the word "Rebut" (undeliverable) in the column for observations. They shall be dealt with and charged as re-directed parcels are. (10.) Any parcel, the addressee of which has left for a country not participating in the parcel post between the United Kingdom and the Argentine Republic, shall be dealt with as undeliverable, unless the office of the first destination be in a position to forward it to the addressee. (11.) The Customs duties on parcels which have to be sent back to the country of origin or re-directed to a third country shall be cancelled both in the United Kingdom and in the Argentine Republic. 10.-(1.) Each Administration shall cause each of its exchanging offices to prepare quarterly for all the mails received from the exchanging offices of the other Administration a statement, in conformity with Specimen (F) appended to the present Regulations, of the sums entered in each parcel-bill, whether to its credit or to its debit. (2.) The Statements (F) shall be afterwards recapitulated by the same Administration in an account conforming to Specimen (G), also appended to the present Regulations. (3.) This account, accompanied by the Statements (F), the parcel-bills, and, if any, the verification notes relating thereto, shall be submitted to the examination of the other Administration in the course of the month which follows the quarter to which it relates. (4.) The quarterly accounts, after having been verified and accepted on both sides, shall be included in a general annual account by the Administration to which the balance is due. office in effective francs by means of bills drawn on Paris or on the capital or one of the commercial towns of the country to which the balance is due; the expense attendant on the payment being at the charge of the indebted office. (6.) The drawing up, transmission, and payment of the accounts must be effected as early as possible, at the latest before the expiration of the following year. After the expiration of this term, the sums due from one Administration to the other shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to be reckoned from the date of expiration of the said term. 11. The present detailed Regulations shall become operative on the day on which the Agreement comes into force, and shall have the same duration as the Agreement. The Administrations interested have, however, the power by common consent to modify the details from time to time. Done in duplicate at London the 29th day of October, 1907, and at Buenos Ayres the 1st day of September, 1908. SYDNEY CHARLES BUXTON. [Forms (A) to (G) follow. Not printed.] CONVENTION between Great Britain and Austria-Hungary providing for the Settlement by Arbitration of certain Classes of Questions which may arise between the two Governments. Signed at London, July 16, 1910.* [Ratifications exchanged at London, December 2, 1910.] His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, signatories of the Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes, concluded at The Hague on the 29th July, 1899,† Taking into consideration that by Article XIX of that Con vention the High Contracting Parties have reserve selves the right of concluding Agreements referring to arbitration all questions whi possible to submit to such treatment, * Treaty Series No. 1 of 1911. Si Hungarian languages. + Vol XCI, page 970. the following Convention, and for that purpose have appointed their Plenipotentiaries : 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 Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, a Baronet of the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary: Count Albert MensdorffPouilly-Dietrichstein, His Privy Councillor and Chamberlain, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Britannic Majesty; Who after communicating to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : ART. I. Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of Treaties existing between the High Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the 29th July, 1899: provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honour of the High Contracting Parties, and do not concern the interests of other Powers. II. In each individual case the High Contracting Parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, shall conclude a special Agreement defining clearly the matter in dispute, the scope of the powers of the Arbitrators, and the periods to be fixed for the formation of the Arbitral Tribunal and the several stages of the procedure. III. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible at London. It shall remain in force for five years from the 1st June, 1910. Unless notice be given six months before the expiration of that term, it shall remain in force for other five years. The same provision will be applied in each case of expiration of a further quinquennial period. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. lon, the 16th July, 1910. (L.S.) E. GREY. CONVENTION for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, concluded between Great Britain, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Sweden.Signed at Paris, May 4, 1910.* [Ratifications deposited at Paris on behalf of Great Britain, Austria and Hungary, France, Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, August 8, 1912; and on behalf of Germany, August 23, 1912.] Convention internationale relative à la Répression de la Traite des Blanches. Les Souverains, Chefs d'État et Gouvernements des Puissances ci-après désignées, Egalement désireux de donner le plus d'efficacité possible à la répression du trafic connu sous le nom de "Traite des Blanches," ont résolu de conclure une Convention à cet effet et, après qu'un projet eut été arrêté dans une première Conférence réunie à Paris du 15 au 25 juillet, 1902, ont désigné leurs Plénipotentiaires, qui se sont réunis dans une deuxième Conférence à Paris du 18 avril au 4 mai, 1910, et qui sont convenus des dispositions suivantes : ART. I.† Doit être puni quiconque, pour satisfaire les passions d'autrui, a embauché, entraîné ou détourné, même avec son consentement, une femme ou fille mineure, en vue de la débauche, alors même que les divers actes qui sont les éléments constitutifs de l'infraction auraient été accomplis dans des pays différents. II.† Doit être aussi puni quiconque, pour satisfaire les passions d'autrui, a, par fraude ou à l'aide de violences, menaces, abus d'autorité, ou tout autre moyen de contrainte, embauché, entraîné ou détourné une femme ou fille majeure en vue de la débauche, alors même que les divers actes qui sont les éléments constitutifs de l'infraction auraient été accomplis dans des pays différents. III.† Les parties contractantes dont la législation ne serait pas dès à présent suffisante pour réprimer les infractions prévues par les deux articles précédents s'engagent à prendre ou à proposer à leurs législatures respectives les mesures nécessaires pour que ces infractions soient punies suivant leur gravité. IV. Les parties contractantes se communiqueront, par l'entremise du Gouvernement de la République française, les lois qui auraient déjà été rendues ou qui viendraient à l'être * Treaty Series No. 20 of 1912. |