desires that the Protocol shall apply to all or any of his territories or to the parts of their population which have been made the subject of a declaration under the preceding paragraph, and the Protocol shall apply to all the territories or the parts of their population named in such notice six months after its receipt by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

3. Any High Contracting Party may, at any time, declare that he desires that the present Protocol shall cease to apply to all or any of his colonies, protectorates, overseas territories or territories under suzerainty or mandate, or in respect of certain parts of the population of the said territories, and the Protocol shall cease to apply to the territories or to the parts of their population named in such declaration one year after its receipt by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

4. Any High Contracting Party may make the reservations provided for in Article 6 in respect of all or any of his colonies, protectorates, overseas territories or territories under suzerainty or mandate, or in respect of certain parts of the population of these territories, at the time of signature, ratification or accession to the Protocol or at the time of making a notification under the second paragraph of this article.

5. The Secretary-General of the League of Nations shall communicate to all the Members of the League of Nations and the non-Member States mentioned in Article 8 all declarations and notices received in virtue of this article.

ARTICLE 16

The present Protocol shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations as soon as it has entered into force.

ARTICLE 17

The French and English texts of the present Protocol shall both be authoritative.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol.

Done at The Hague on the twelfth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations and of which certified true copies shall be transmitted by the Secretary-General to all the Members of the League of Nations and all the non-Member States invited to the First Conference for the Codification of International Law.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

During December the following documents, of direct interest in connection with Treaty Information, were published by the Department of State and may be secured from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Prevention of Smuggling of Intoxicating Liquors:

Convention between the United States and Chile. Signed
May 27, 1930; proclaimed November 26, 1930. (Treaty
Series, No. 829.) 6 pp. 5¢.

Mutual Recognition of Ship Measurement Certificates:

Agreement between the United States and Estonia.
Effected by exchange of notes, signed August 21, 1926,
and November 30, 1926. (Executive Agreement Series,
No. 9.) 2 pp. 5¢.

Relief from Double Income Tax on Shipping Profits:

Agreement between the United States and Italy. Effected by exchange of notes, signed March 10, 1926, and May 5, 1926. (Executive Agreement Series, No. 10.) 2 pp. 54. Relief from Double Income Tax on Shipping Profits:

Agreement between the United States and the Netherlands.
Effected by exchange of notes, signed September 13, 1926,
October 19, 1926, and November 27, 1926. (Executive
Agreement Series, No. 11.) 4 pp. 5.

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