MISCELLANEOUS CONSULAR AGENTS CONVENTION RELATING TO CONSULAR OFFICERS, ADOPTED AT THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN STATES AT HABANA, 1928 Mexico. Under date of December 16, 1929, the Ambassador of Mexico in the United States, Señor Don Manuel C. Téllez, transmitted to the Pan American Union, for deposit in the archives of the Union, the instrument of ratification on the part of the United Mexican States of the convention on consular agents signed in the city of Habana, February 20, 1928. The decree of ratification issued by the President of the United Mexican States bears the date of November 1, 1929. AGREEMENT COVERING THE ERECTION OF On January 11, 1930, the President of the United States ratified and confirmed the agreement between the Governments of the United. States and Belgium covering the erection by the American Battle. Monuments Commission of certain memorials in Belgium in accordance with and by authority of the Act of Congress of the United States approved March 4, 1923, entitled "An act for the creation of an American Battle Monuments Commission to erect suitable memorials commemorating the services of the American soldier in Europe, and for other purposes," signed at Paris, October 4, 1929, by Gen. John J. Pershing of the American Battle Monuments Commission and Baron E. de Gaiffier d'Nestroy, Belgian Ambassador in Paris. MIXED COURTS OF EGYPT Egypt. On January 20, 1930, the Egyptian Government selected Mr. Julian Wright of New York City, as one of the foreign judges on the Mixed Court of First Instance, at Cairo, to fill the vacancy 13 caused by the promotion of a Swiss judge to the Mixed Court of Appeals. Mr. Wright is the fourth American judge now sitting on the Egyptian Mixed Courts, which were established in 1876 to hear civil and commercial cases between foreigners of different nationalities or between foreigners and Egyptians. PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE All requests for publications of the Department of State should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The Superintendent of Documents will accept deposits against which the cost of publications ordered may be charged and will notify the depositor when the deposit is exhausted. The cost to depositors of a complete set of the publications of the Department for a year will probably be somewhat in excess of $10. However, anyone may place orders with the Superintendent of Documents for a single series, as well as for single publications. PERIODICALS DIPLOMATIC LIST. [Monthly list of Embassies and Legations in Washington.] Subscription, 50e a year; single copy, 56. FOREIGN SERVICE LIST. [Quarterly.] Subscription, 50¢ a year; single copy, 15¢. PRESS RELEASES. [Weekly printings of mimeographed releases issued to the press.] Subscription, $1.50 a year; single copy, 5¢. Indexed semiannually. REGISTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. [Annual; issued early in the calendar year.] TREATY INFORMATION. [Monthly.] Subscription, 50¢ a year; single copy, 5¢. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (October 1, 1929, to February 15, 1930) ARBITRATION SERIES: No. 1. Arbitration of the Claim of Charles J. Harrah: Memorial of the United States before the Arbitrators Selected under the Protocol of October 1, 1929, between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba. 195 pages. CONFERENCE SERIES: 35¢. No. 1. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, London, April 16May 31, 1929: Report of the Delegation of the United States of America, and Appended Documents. 258 pages. EXECUTIVE AGREEMENT SERIES: 406. No. 1. Arrangement Effected by Exchange of Notes between the United States and the Dominion of Canada concerning Quarantine Inspection of Vessels entering Puget Sound and Waters Adjacent Thereto or the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River. 2 pages. 5¢. No. 2. Arrangement Effected by Exchange of Notes between the United States and the Dominion of Canada; Admission of Civil Aircraft, the Issuance of Pilots' Licenses and the Acceptance of Certificates of Airworthiness for Aircraft Imported as Merchandise. 4 pages. 56. LATIN AMERICAN SERIES: No. 1. Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay: Report of the Chairman submitted to the Secretary of State of the United States of America September 21, 1929, for Transmission to the American Governments not Represented on the Commission, and Appended Documents. (Spanish and English texts.) 63 pages. 55¢. PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE PASSPORT SERIES: No. 1. Passports for American Citizens in Foreign Countries. TREATY SERIES:1 11 pages. 5ė. No. 801. Convention between the United States and Mexico, further extending Duration of the General Claims Commission Provided for in Convention of September 8, 1923. 3 pages. 5¢. No. 802. Convention between the United States and Mexico, extending Duration of the Special Claims Commission Provided for in Convention of September 10, 1923. 3 pages. 5¢. No. 803. Treaty between the United States and Portugal: Arbitration. 4 pages. 5¢. No. 804. Treaty between the United States and Czechoslovakia: Naturalization. 4 pages. 5¢. No. 805. Treaty between the United States and Poland: Arbitration. 4 pages. 5¢. WESTERN EUROPEAN SERIES: No. 1. France and the Tariff Act of 1922: Notes Exchanged between the Governments of the United States and France during the Period October 11, 1927-October 29, 1929. 22 pages, 10¢. October 1, 1929. [A mailing list for The Immigration Work of the Department of State and its Consular Officers. 49 pages. 10¢. Unclaimed Estates in the British Isles. 4 pages. 5¢. Trail Smelter Reference: Statement on Behalf of the Government of the United States before the International Joint Commission Based upon the Testimony. Given at the Hearing Beginning January 22, 1930, Washington. D. C., with the Applicable Law. 65 pages. The Superintendent of Documents has for free distribution the following price lists which may be of interest: Foreign Relations of the United States; American History; History and Biography; Insular Possessions; Laws; and A Bibliography for Debaters. The slip-laws, session laws, and Statutes at Large, as well as proclamations and Executive orders, are also published by the Department of State and may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents. 1 The following postal conventions which have recently been published by the Post Office Department may also be of interest: Parcel Post Convention between the United States of America and Italy, signed October 18, 1929. 22 pages. 5¢. Agreement for the Exchange of Registered and Insured Parcel-Post Packages between the Republic of Ecuador and the United States of America, signed August 14, 1929. 16 pages. 5c. |