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TREATY WITH MOROCCO. MAY 31, 1865. 681 ARTICLE V. The present Convention shall continue in force ten years. _ This Conven- In ease, within six months of the expiration of this term, none of the high §[°,9O:g8°;’;’;i““° contracting parties should, by official declaration, have made known its yew_ purpose to bring to a close, so far as may concern it, the effects of this Convention, it shall continue in force for one year more, and so from year _ F¤f¤h¤r ¤¤¤· to year, until due notice. t‘“““"°°‘ ARTICLE VI. The execution of the reciprocal engagements contained Execution of in the present Convention is subordinated, so far as needful, to the accom- [l};_:;‘£g‘§:é“°”*’ plishment of the forms and regulations established by the constitutional S,,bO,.di,m,,?&,,_ laws of those of the high contracting powers who are held to ask for their application thereto, which they bind themselves to do with the least possible delay. Axricnn VII. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratitzi- Ratitioation. cations be exchanged at Tangier, as soon as can be done. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done in duplicate original, in French and in Arabic, at Tangier, pro- Execution. tected of God, the fifth day of the moon of Moharrem, year of the Hegira twelve hundred and eighty-two, which corresponds with the thirty-first of the month of May, of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. JESSE H. M’MATH. [L. s.] J. H. DRUMMOND HAY. [L. s.] ERNEST DALUIN. [L. s.] FRANCISCO MERRY Y COLOM. [L. s.] AYME D’AQUIN. [L. s.] J. H. DRUMMOND HAY. [L. s.] ALEXANDRE VERDINOIS. [L. s.] J. H. DRUMMOND HAY. [L. s.] JOSE DANIEL COLACO. [L. s.] S. D’EHRENHOFF. [L. s.] And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the respective governments : — Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW Jonnson, President of Proolaimed. the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereofi In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninet -first. y ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WILLIAM H. Snwium, Secretaryqf State.