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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SFP 24 1937

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HUMANITARIAN-Continued

HEALTH

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International sanitary convention for aerial navigation (Treaty Series,
No. 901) . .

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OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS

International convention for the suppression of the circulation of and traffic in obscene publications.

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SAFETY

Amendment to the international convention for promoting safety of life at sea

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ECONOMIC

AGRICULTURE

International agreement regarding the regulation of production and marketing of sugar, and protocol

AVIATION

Convention relating to the regulation of aerial navigation COMMERCE

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Protocol on arbitration clauses in commercial matters
Reservation by Liechtenstein . .

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Reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Brazil (Executive Agreement Series, No. 82)

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Reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Costa
Rica..

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Agreement between the United States and Japan concerning cotton piece goods . .

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COPYRIGHT

Convention on literary and artistic copyright (Treaty Series, No. 593). FINANCE

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Convention and protocol between the United States and France
.concerning double taxation (Treaty Series, No. 885).
Financial arrangement between the United States and Brazil.
Financial arrangement between the United States and China
Convention of the International Conference for the Unification of

Laws on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Cheques.
Reservation by the Irish Free State . .

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Convention for the regulation of the meshes of fishing nets and the
size limits of fish.

Convention between the United States and Canada for the protection,
preservation, and extension of the sockeye salmon fisheries of the
Fraser River system (Treaty Series, No. 918). .

Convention between the United States and Canada for the preserva-
tion of the halibut fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and the
Bering Sea, 1937 (Treaty Series, No. 917) .

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Agreement relating to a uniform system of maritime buoyage, and
rules annexed thereto.

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PROMOTION OF PEACE

ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL
SETTLEMENT

BILATERAL TREATIES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION

Colombia-Mexico

The American Embassy at Mexico City reported by a despatch dated July 16, 1937, that on July 1, 1937, ratifications were exchanged at the Foreign Office of the treaty of arbitration between Mexico and Colombia, signed on July 11, 1928. The treaty provides that all questions which cannot be settled through diplomatic channels and which do not involve the independence or the sovereignty of the two contracting parties shall be submitted to an arbitration tribunal composed of three members, one designated by Mexico, one by Colombia, and the third by common accord between the two Governments. GENERAL TREATY OF INTER-AMERICAN ARBITRATION AND PROTOCOL OF PROGRESSIVE ARBITRATION (TREATY SERIES, No. 886)1

Ecuador

With a despatch dated July 22, 1937, the American Minister to Ecuador transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of the Registro Oficial (no. 540) of July 15, 1937, which contains the ratifications by Ecuador of the general treaty of inter-American arbitration and of the protocol of progressive arbitration, signed at Washington January 5, 1929. The ratifications are dated June 24, 1937.

With regard to reservations made by Ecuador upon signing the general treaty of inter-American arbitration, the Ecuadoran ratification of that treaty reads in translation as follows:

"With the purpose of seeking more adequate means of generalizing and making effective the American instruments of peace, the Republic of Ecuador abandons the First and Second Reservations made by the representative of Ecuador upon signing the said General Treaty of Inter-American Arbitration, in accordance with Article 1 of the Protocol of Progressive Arbitration of January 5, 1929; which reservations were made in this manner: "The Delegation of Ecuador, pursuant to instructions of its Government, reserves from the jurisdiction of the obligatory arbitration agreed upon in

1 49 Stat. (pt. 2) 3153; see also Bulletin No. 89, February 1937, p. 1.

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