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1856 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. Scbedulem-contd. The various agreements between the high contracting parties sub- sidiary to the said treaty of the 10th day of October, 19'22, shall, in 80 far as their duration is made dependent on that of the said treaty, likewise remain in force for the period laid down in the present treaty, but in other respects their provisions shall not be affected. AImCLE 2. The high contracting parties agree, immeciately after tho ratifica- tion of the present treaty and its approval by the Council of the League of Nations, to continue active consideration of the questions which have already been under discussion between them in regard to the revision of the agreements arising out of articles 7 and 15 of the treaty of October 10th, 1922. AImCLE 3. Without prejudice to the provisions of article 6 of the treaty of October 10th, 1922, in regard to the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations or the provisions of article 18 of the said treaty which permit the revision at any time, subject to the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, of the ;provisions of the said treaty or of certain of the agreements subsidiary thereto, His Britannic Majesty undertakes that, at the time when the treaty of October 10th, 1922, would have expired under the protocol of April 30th, 1923, and at subsequent successive intervals of four years until the expiry of the period of twenty-five years mentioned in the present treaty or until the admission of Iraq into the League of NatIons, he will take into active consideration the following two questions, namely:- (1.) (2.) The question whether it is possible for him to press for the admission of Iraq into the Lea~ue of Nations. If it is not so possible, the questIon of the amendment, on account of the progress made by the Kingdom of Iraq or for any other reason, of the agreements referred to in article 18 of the treaty of October 10th, 1922. The present treaty, in English and Arabic, of which in case of divergence the English text will prevail, shall be ratified and ratifi- cations shall be excllanged as soon as possible. IN W1TNE8S WHEREOF the above-named plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and have affixed thereunto their seals. DONE at Bagdad the Thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six of the Christian Era, corresponding to the Twenty-eighth day _of Jamadi-al-Ukhra, one thousand three hundred and forty-four, Hijrah, in three copies, of which one shall be deposited in the archives of the League of Nations at Geneva an~ one shall be retained by each of the high contracting parties. (L.S .) B. H . BOURDILLON, Hia Britannic Maje8tY'8 Acting High oommiBBioner in Iraq. (L.8 .) ABDUL MuueIN AL-SA.'DUN, Prime Mirdster of the Iraq Government and MiniBter for Foreign Affairs.