a previous notice is to be given to the Japanese Consular officers. Whenever the Japanese Consular officers find that decision has been given in disregard to law, they shall have right to apply to the Chinese authorities for a new trial, to be conducted by officials specially selected in order to assure justice of decision. Article V. The Government of China engages that lands and buildings owned by Korean people in the mixed residence district to the north of the river Tumen shall be fully protected equally with properties of Chinese subjects. Ferries shall be established on the river Tumen at places properly chosen and people on either side of the river shall be entirely at liberty to cross to the other side, it being, however, understood that persons carrying arms shall not be permitted to cross the frontier without previous official notice or passports. In respect of cereals produced in the mixed residence district, Korean people shall be permitted to export them out of the said district except in time of scarcity, in which case such exportation may be prohibited. Collection of firewood and grass shall be dealt with in accordance with the practice hitherto followed. Article VI. - The Government of China shall undertake to extend the Kirin-Changchun Railway to the southern boundary of Yenchi and to connect it at Hoiryong with a Korean railway and such extension shall be effected upon the same terms as the Kirin-Changchun Railway. The date of commencing the work of proposed extension shall be determined by the Government of China considering actual requirement of the situation and upon consultation with the Government of Japan. Article VII. — The present agreement shall come into operation immediately upon its signature and thereafter Chientao branch office of the Residency-General as well as all the civil and military officers attached thereto shall be withdrawn as soon as possible and within two months. The Government of Japan shall within two months hereafter establish its consulates at the places mentioned in Article II. In witness whereof the undersigned duly authorized by their respective Governments have signed and sealed the present agreement in duplicate in the Japanese and Chinese languages. NATURALIZATION CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND PERU.1 Signed at Lima, October 15, 1907; Ratified by the President, March 9, 1908; Proclaimed, September 2, 1909. The United States of America and the Republic of Peru, desiring to regulate the citizenship of those persons who emigrate from the United States of America to Peru, and from Peru to the United States of America, have resolved to conclude a convention on this subject and for that purpose have appointed their Plenipotentiaries that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Leslie Combs, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Lima; and The President of Peru Señor Don Solón Polo, Minister for Foreign Relations of Peru, who have agreed to and signed the following articles. ARTICE I. Citizens of the United States who may be or shall have been naturalized in Peru upon their own application or by their own consent, will be considered by the United States as citizens of the Republic of Peru. Reciprocally, Peruvians who may or shall have been naturalized in the United States upon their own application or with their consent, will be considered by the Republic of Peru as citizens of the United States. ARTICLE II. If a Peruvian, naturalized in the United States of America, renews his residence in Peru without intent to return to the United States, he may be held to have renounced his naturalization in the United States. Reciprocally if a citizen of the United States naturalized in Peru renews his residence in the United States without intent to return to Peru, he may be presumed to have renounced his naturalization in Peru. The intent not to return may be held to exist when the person naturalized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country, but this presumption may be destroyed by evidence to the contrary. ARTICLE III. It is mutually agreed that the definition of the word "citizen " as used in this convention shall be held to mean a person to whom nationality of the United States or of Peru attaches. 1 U. S. Treaty Series, No. 532. ARTICLE IV. A recognized citizen of the one party returning to the territory of the other remains liable to trial and legal punishment for any action punishable by the laws of his original country and committed before his emigration; but not for the emigration itself, saving always the limitation established by the laws of his original country and any other remission of liability to punishment. ARTICLE V. The declaration of intention to become a citizen of the one or the other country has not for either party the effect of naturalization. ARTICLE VI. The present convention shall go into effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications, and in the event of either party giving the other notice of its intention to terminate the convention it shall continue to be in effect one year more to count from the date of such notice. The present convention shall be submitted to the approval and ratification of the respective appropriate authorities of each of the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Lima within twentyfour months of the date thereof. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles both in the English and Spanish languages, and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Lima this fifteenth day of October one thousand nine hundred and seven. ARBITRATION CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND PARAGUAY.1 Signed at Asuncion, March 13, 1909; Ratified by the President, August 10, 1909; Proclaimed, November 11, 1909. The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Paraguay, 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 Convention the 1 U. S. Treaty Series, No. 534. High Contracting Parties have reserved to themselves the right of concluding Agreements, with a view to referring to arbitration all questions which they shall consider possibie to submit to such treatment; Have authorized the Undersigned to conclude the following Convention: ARTICE I. Differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two 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 honor of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third parties. ARTICLE 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. It is understood that on the part of the United States such special agreements will be made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and on the part of Paraguay shall be subject to the procedure required by her laws. ARTICLE III. The present Convention is concluded for a period of five years dating from the day of the exchange of the ratifications. ARTICLE IV. 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 the President of Paraguay, with the previous approval of the Legislative Congress. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Asuncion as soon as possible, and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. Done in duplicate in the English and Spanish languages at Asuncion, this thirteenth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine. EDWARD C. O'BRIEN [SEAL] ARBITRATION CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI.1 Signed at Washington, January 7, 1909; Ratified by the President, March 1, 1909; Proclaimed, November 16, 1909. The Government of the United States of America, signatory of the two conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague, respectively, on July 29, 1899, and October 18, 1907, and the Government of the Republic of Haiti, adherent to the said convention of July 29, 1899, and signatory of the said convention of October 18, 1907; Taking into consideration that by Article XIX of the convention of July 29, 1899, and by Article XL of the convention of October 18, 1907, the High Contracting Parties have reserved to themselves the right of concluding Agreements, with a view to referring to arbitration all questions which they shall consider possible to submit to such treatment; Have authorized the Undersigned to conclude the following Convention: ARTICE I. Differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties, and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall, if not submitted to some other arbitral jurisdiction, be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the convention of July 29, 1899, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, and maintained by The Hague Convention of the 18th October, 1907; provided, nevertheless, that they do not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honor of the two Contracting States, and do not concern the interests of third Parties. ARTICLE 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. It is understood that on the part of the United States such special agreements will be made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and on the part of Haiti shall be subject to the procedure required by the Constitution and laws thereof. 1 U. S. Treaty Series, No. 535. |