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VIKYUIN WELLINGTON KOO.
RAFAEL MARTINEZ ORTIZ.

G. CLEMENCEAU.

S. PICHON.

L. L. KLOTZ.

ANDRÉ TARDIEU.
JULES CAMBON.
A. ROMANOS.

G. DE MARTINO.

K. MATSUI.

R. A. AMADOR.
AFFONSO COSTA.
CHAROON.

NIK. P. PACHITCH.
DR. ANTE TRUMBIC.
DR. IVAN ZOLGER.

DECLARATION OF ACCESSION BY THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE TO THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH AUSTRIA, THE TREATY BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE, AND THE AGREEMENTS WITH REGARD TO THE ITALIAN REPARATION PAYMENTS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COST OF LIBERATION OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.1

Signed at Paris, December 5, 1919.

The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of His Majesty the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, acting in virtue of their full powers duly recognized as good and valid, declare that His Majesty the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes accedes in the name of the SerbCroat-Slovene State, without any condition or reservation :

1. To the treaty of peace,2 protocol and declaration signed at SaintGermain-en-Laye, the 10th September, 1919, by the United States

1 British Treaty Series (1920), No. 8.

2 This Supplement, Vol. 14, p. 1.

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of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Principal Allied and Associated Powers, Belgium, China, Cuba, Greece, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Siam and Czecho-Slovakia, Allied and Associated Powers, of the one part; and Austria, of the other part;

2. To the treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, signed at Saint-Germainen-Laye, the 10th September, 1919, by the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan;

3. To the agreement with regard to the Italian reparation payments signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the 10th September, 1919, by the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, Cuba, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Siam and the Czecho-Slovak State; subject to the modifications which, accepted on this date by the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, will form the subject of a special declaration;

4. To the agreement with regard to the contributions to the cost of liberation of the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the 10th September, 1919, by the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, Cuba, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Siam and the Czecho-Slovak State, subject to the modifications which, accepted on this day by the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, will form the subject of a special declaration.

In faith whereof the undersigned have signed the present declaration and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Paris, the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

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CONVENTION BETWEEN GREECE AND BULGARIA RESPECTING RECIPROCAL

EMIGRATION.1

Signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine the 27th November, 1919.

(Translation.)

As provided in Article 56, paragraph 2, of the Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria concluded the 27th November 1919, and in accordance with the decision of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers of the 27th November, 1919, to the following effect:

"Having regard to Article 56, paragraph 2, of the Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria the Principal Allied and Associated Powers consider it opportune that the reciprocal voluntary emigration of the racial, religious and linguistic minorities in Greece and Bulgaria should be regulated by a convention concluded between those two Powers in the terms decided upon this day."

The undersigned plenipotentiaries of Greece, of the one part, And of, Bulgaria, of the other part,

After exchanging their full powers, respectively found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE 1.

The high contracting parties recognize the right of their subjects belonging to the racial, religious or linguistic minorities to emigrate freely to their respective territories.

ARTICLE 2.

The high contracting parties undertake to facilitate by all the means at their disposal the exercise of the right referred to in Article 1 and not to place directly or indirectly any restriction on the right of emigration, notwithstanding laws or regulations to the contrary, which in this respect shall be deemed to be without effect.

In particular, the exercise of the right of emigration shall not affect the pecuniary rights of the emigrants, such as they exist at the moment of emigration.

1 British Parliamentary Papers. Miscellaneous, No. 3, 1920. (Cmd. 589.)

ARTICLE 3.

No obstacle shall be placed in the way of the departure of a voluntary emigrant for any reason whatever, save in case of a final sentence to imprisonment for an infraction of ordinary law. In case of a sentence which is not yet final or of penal proceedings under ordinary law against an emigrant, he shall be delivered to the authorities of the country to which he is going by the authorities of the prosecuting country with a view to his trial.

ARTICLE 4.

The right of voluntary emigration belongs to every person over 18 years of age. It shall be exercisable during a period of two years. from the date of constitution of the mixed commission provided for in Article 8, by means of a declaration before that commission or before its representatives. A declaration of intention to emigrate on the part of a husband shall imply a declaration by his wife; a declaration of intention to emigrate on the part of parents or guardians shall imply a declaration by their children or wards under 18 years of age.

ARTICLE 5.

Emigrants shall lose the nationality of the country which they leave the moment they quit it and shall acquire that of the country of destination from the time of their arrival there.

ARTICLE 6.

Persons who, in execution of the foregoing provisions, exercise the right of emigration shall be free to take with them or to have transported their movable property of every kind, without any duty, whether export or import, being levied from them on this account.

Similarly in cases where the right of emigration is exercised by members of communities (including churches, convents, schools, hospitals or foundations of any kind whatever) which on this account shall have to be dissolved, the mixed commission provided for in Article 8 shall determine whether and in what circumstances such members shall have the option of freely taking with them or having transported the movable property belonging to the communities.

ARTICLE 7.

The real property, rural or urban, belonging to voluntary emigrants or to the communities to which Article 6 refers shall be liquidated in accordance with the following provisions by the mixed Commission provided for in Article 9.

ARTICLE 8.

Within a period of three months from the entry into force of the present convention a mixed commission shall be created, composed of one member nominated by each of the contracting states concerned and of an equal number of members of a different nationality from among whom the president shall be chosen and who shall be nominated by the Council of the League of Nations.

ARTICLE 9.

The mixed commission shall have the functions of supervising and facilitating the voluntary emigration referred to in the present convention and of liquidating the real property of emigrants.

It will fix the conditions of emigration and of liquidation of real property.

In general the mixed commission shall have full powers to take the measures rendered necessary by the execution of the present convention and to decide all questions to which this convention may give rise.

The decisions of the commission shall be by majority, the president's vote being decisive in case of an equal division of votes.

ARTICLE 10.

The mixed commission shall have full power to have a valuation made of real property, the interested parties being heard or duly summoned to a hearing.

The government of the country where the liquidation takes place shall pay to the mixed commission, under conditions to be fixed by the latter and for transmission to the rightful parties, the value of the real property liquidated, which shall remain the property of the said government.

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