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APPENDIX A. DETAILED REPLIES TO INQUIRIES MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE PERMANENT MANDATES COMMISSION. I. Twelfth Session. (Page 198 of Minutes, Document C. 545, M. 194, 1927, VI.) General International Conventions. (See also pages 212 and 230 of Minutes of Twentieth Session, Document C. 422, M. 176, 1931, VI, and Document C. 735, M. 340, 1931, VI.) Tlie following is a list of the general International Conventions that have been applied to Western Samoa :— Residence: — 1923, 24th July, Lausanne. Convention between the, British Empire, France, Italy, &c., and Turkey, respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction. Transit: — 1923, 9th December, Geneva. Convention and Statute on the International Regime of Maritime Ports and Protocol of Signature. 1923, 9th December, Geneva. Convention relating to the Transmission in Transit of Electric Power and Protocol of Signature. 1923, 9th December, Geneva. Convention relating to the Development of Hydraulic Power affecting more than one State and Protocol of Signature. 1923, 9th December, Geneva. Convention and Statute on the International Regime of Railways and Protocol of Signature. Commerce, Navigation, and Customs : — 1923, 24th July, Lausanne. Commercial Convention between the British Empire, France, Italy, &c., and Turkey. 1923, 9th December, Geneva. Convention and Statute on the International Regime of Maritime Ports and Protocol of Signature. 1923, 3rd November, Geneva. International Convention relating to the Simplification of Customs Formalities. Economic : — 1925, 6th November, The Hague. International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. 1927, 26th September, Geneva. Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Postal, Telephonic, Telegraphic,' Radio-telegraphic : — 1929, 28th June, London. Universal Postal Convention. 1929, 28th June, London. Agreement concerning Insured Letters and Boxes. Social:— 1926, 25th September, Geneva. Slavery Convention. 1923, 12th September, Geneva. International Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications. Narcotic Drugs : — 1925, 19th February, Geneva. International Convention relating to Dangerous Drugs (2nd Conference). Sanitary : — 1926, 21st June, Paris. International Sanitary Convention. Political: — 1921, 13th December, Washington. Treaty between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, and Japan, relating to their Insular Possessions and Insular Dominions in the Pacific Ocean. Supplementary Treaty of the 6th February, 1922. Peace: — 1919, 28th June, Versailles. Treaty between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany.

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