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Treaty Series No. 682

Agreement between the United States of America and the Netherlands, Signed at Washington, February 13, 19243

The Government of the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, desiring to extend for another five years the period during which the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on May 2, 1908, and extended by the Agreement concluded between the two Governments on May 9, 1914,4 and further extended by the Agreement concluded between the two Governments on March 8, 1919,5 shall remain in force, have respectively authorized the undersigned, to wit:

Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State of the United States of America, and

Jonkheer Dr. A. C. D. de Graeff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands at Washington,

to conclude the following Agreement:

Article I

The Convention of Arbitration of May 2, 1908, between the Government of the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen [Page 475] of the Netherlands, the duration of which by Article III thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, which period, by the Agreement of May 9, 1914, between the two Governments was extended for five years from March 25, 1914, and was extended by the Agreement between them of March 8, 1919, for the further period of five years from March 25, 1919, is hereby extended and continued in force for the further period of five years from March 25, 1924.

Article II

The present Agreement shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.

Done in duplicate in the English and Dutch languages at Washington this thirteenth day of February, 1924.

[seal]
Charles Evans Hughes

[seal]
De Graeff
  1. In English and Dutch; Dutch text not printed. Ratification advised by the Senate, Feb. 26, 1924; ratified by the President, Apr. 2, 1924; ratified by the Netherlands, Mar. 22, 1924; ratifications exchanged at Washington, Apr. 5, 1924; proclaimed by the President, Apr. 7, 1924.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1915, p. 1099.↩
  3. Ibid., 1919, vol. ii, p. 651.↩