2. Shot guns and cartridges for sporting purposes are exempted.

3. The present prohibition shall extend to rifles, revolvers, and other repeating weapons and the ammunition used for such arms, separate parts for the conversion of sporting guns into military weapons, ball cartridges, and all kinds of explosives, other than cartridges especially made for shot guns.

ART. LVIII. Exceptions.-1. The two Governments reserve to themselves the right to arm the natives who form part of the regular police forces.

2. If a non-native temporarily entrusts to a native employed by him, and solely for the purpose of that employment, prohibited arms or ammunition, it shall not be considered to constitute an offence against Article LVII.

ART. LIX. Prohibition of the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors to Natives.— 1. From the date when the present Convention comes into operation no person shall, in the New Hebrides, including the Banks and Torres Islands, and within the territorial waters of the Group, sell or supply intoxicating liquors to the natives, in any form and on any pretext whatsoever.

2. Alcoholic drugs or cordials employed in case of disease or sickness are not included in the present prohibition.

3. The present prohibition shall cover spirits, beer, wine, and generally all fermented intoxicating liquors.

ART. LX. Report of Offences.-1. Breaches of Articles LVII and LIX, respecting the prohibition of the supply of arms, ammunition, and intoxicating liquors to the natives, shall be reported by the officers and agents of the police force, specially authorized for this purpose by the High Commissioners or their Delegates jointly.

2. The official report drawn up in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be primâ facie evidence before the competent authority of the facts contained therein.

3. Any officer or agent of the police force holding an authority to that effect, who finds a native in possession of a prohibited weapon, or in a state of intoxication in a public place, shall arrest him, and after inquiry into the circumstances of the offence, shall draw up an official report for the information of the High Commissioners or their Delegates.

If the offence is proved, the native shall be punished by the Resident Commissioner having authority over the members of the police force making the arrest, or by the person appointed for the purpose, and the non-native suspected of complicity shall be prosecuted before the Joint Court.

4. Members of the police force shall not enter the house or premises of a non-native without his consent except as provided in the rules of procedure issued by the Joint Court, or the Regulations issued by the authority having jurisdiction over him.

Search-warrants, when considered necessary in the case of a nonnative, shall be issued by the Judge with jurisdiction over him.

ART. LXI. Penalties.-1. Any breach by non-natives of Article LVII, LIX, and LX shall be punishable by a fine of from 4s. to 20l. and imprisonment ranging from one day to one month, or by either of these penalites.

2. The Joint Court shall inflict the penalties and may further order the forfeiture of the arms, ammunition, or intoxicating liquors, and shall decide as to their disposal or destruction.

MUNICIPALITIES

ART. LXII. Establishment of Municipalities.-1. Municipalities may be established in the Group, on the application of the non-native. inhabitants.

2. Applications for the establishment of municipalities shall be addressed to one or other of the High Commissioners or their Delegates. The latter shall communicate such requests to one another, and determine jointly what action shall be taken thereon.

3. Applications made by a group of not less than thirty non-native adult inhabitants residing in the same district shall be, as far as possible, complied with.

ART. LXIII. Councils.-1. Every municipality shall be administered by a Council consisting of not less than four, and not more than eight members.

2. The Council shall elect a Chairman and a Deputy Chairman from its members.

3. The Councillors shall hold office for four years.

ART. LXIV. Elections.-1. Non-natives of either sex and any nationality, who have completed their twenty-first year and have resided for six months at least in the district, shall be entitled to vote, with the exception of those who have served a sentence of more than three months' imprisonment.

2. Voters of either sex who have completed their twenty-fifth year shall be eligible for election.

3. The first elections shall take place within three months of the establishment of a municipality.

4. The elections shall take place under the supervision of two persons respectively appointed by the two Resident Commissioners.

ART. LXV. Functions of the Councils.-The Council shall pass the annual municipal budget, vote the necessary local taxation, initiate and carry out municipal works, decide upon the establishment of schools and charitable institutions, and, in general, take all measures necessary for the welfare of the local community.

ART. LXVI. Temporary Provisions.-The two existing municipal bodies in the island of Efate shall be recognized as municipalities.

Members of these bodies may continue to hold office till the termination of the period for which they were elected.

ART. LXVII. Supplementary Regulations.-The High Commissioners or their Delegates shall prescribe jointly the regulations for enforcing the provisions of Articles LXII to LXVIII.

FINAL PROVISION

ART. LXVIII. Duration of the Convention. The provisions laid down by the present Convention shall remain in force until new provisions are substituted in virtue of an Agreement between the Signatory Powers. In witness whereof the undersigned Delegates have drawn up and signed the present Protocol.

Done in London, in duplicate, the 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1906.

The present Convention shall come into operation as soon as it is proclaimed in the Group by the two High Commissioners or their Delegates acting in concert, such proclamation to be made as soon as possible.

In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the present Convention and have thereto affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate at London, the 20th October, 1906.

Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Sick and Wounded of Armies in the Field. Signed at Geneva, July 6, 1906

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia; His Excellency the President of the Argentine Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc., and Apostolic King of Hungary; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Royal Highness the Prince of Bulgaria; His Excellency the President of the Republic of Chile; His Majesty the Emperor of China; His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Sovereign of the Congo Free State; His Majesty the Emperor of Corea; His Majesty the King of Denmark; His Majesty the King of Spain; the President of the United States of America; the President of the United States of Brazil; the President of the United Mexican States; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdow of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of the Hellenes; the President of the Republic of Guatemala; the President of the Republic of Honduras; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, Duke of Nassau; His Highness the Prince of Montenegro; His Majesty the King of Norway; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; the President of the Republic of Peru; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; His Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, etc.; His Majesty the King of Roumania; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Servia; His Majesty the King of Siam; His Majesty the King of Sweden; the Swiss Federal Council; the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,

Being equally animated by the desire to lessen the inherent evils of warfare as far as is within their power, and wishing for this purpose to improve and supplement the provisions agreed upon at Geneva, on August 22, 1864, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded of armies in the field,

Have decided to conclude a new convention to that effect, and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: *

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The President of the United States of America:

Mr. William Cary Sanger, former Assistant Secretary of War of the United States of America,

Vice-Admiral Charles S. Sperry, President of the Naval War College, Brigadier-General George B. Davis, Judge-Advocate General of the

Army,

Brigadier-General Robert M. O'Reilly, Surgeon-General of the Army, (NOTE. In the list of plenipotentiaries following above, Vice-Admiral

Charles S. Sperry, President of the Naval War College, should be RearAdmiral Charles S. Sperry, &c., &c.)

Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following:

CHAPTER I

The sick and wounded

ARTICLE I. Officers, soldiers, and other persons officially attached to armies, who are sick or wounded, shall be respected and cared for, without distinction of nationality, by the belligerent in whose power they

are.

A belligerent, however, when compelled to leave his wounded in the hands of his adversary, shall leave with them, so far as military conditions permit, a portion of the personnel and matériel of his sanitary service to assist in caring for them.

ART. 2. Subject to the care that must be taken of them under the preceding article, the sick and wounded of an army who fall into the power of the other belligerent become prisoners of war, and the general rules of international law in respect to prisoners become applicable to them.

The belligerents remain free, however, to mutually agree upon such clauses, by way of exception or favor, in relation to the wounded or sick as they may deem proper. They shall especially have authority to agree:

1. To mutually return the sick and wounded left on the field of battle after an engagement.

2. To send back to their own country the sick and wounded who have recovered, or who are in a condition to be transported, and whom they do not desire to retain as prisoners.

3. To send the sick and wounded of the enemy to a neutral state, with the consent of the latter and on condition that it shall charge itself with their internment until the close of hostilities.

ART. 3. After every engagement the belligerent who remains in possession of the field of battle shall take measures to search for the wounded and to protect the wounded and dead from robbery and ill treatment.

He will see that a careful examination is made of the bodies of the dead prior to their interment or incineration.

ART. 4. As soon as possible each belligerent shall forward to the authorities of their country or army the marks or military papers of