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1836 AIR NAVIGATION-UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Aircraft of each Party to this arrangement are accorded the right to enter the territory of the other Party subject to compliance with quarantine regulations in force therein. The Parties to this arrangement shall exchange lists of the aero- dromes in their territories designated by them as ports of entry and departure. ARTICLE 14. Each of the Parties to this arrangement reserves the right to require that all aircraft crossing the frontiers of its territory shall do so between certain points. Subject to the notification of any such requirements by one Party to the other Party, and to the right to prohibit air traffic over certain areas as stipulated in Article 6, the frontiers of the territories of the Parties to this arrangement may be crossed at any point. ARTICLE 15. As ballast, only fine sand or water may be dropped from an aircraft. ARTICLE 16. No article or substance, other than ballast, may be unloaded or otherwise discharged in the course of flight unless special permission for such purpose shall have been given by the authorities of the terri- tory in which such unloading or discharge takes place. ARTICLE 17. Whenever questions of nationality arise in carrying out the pr~sent arrangement, it is agreed that every aircraft shall be deemed to possess the nationality of the Party in whose territory it is duly registered. ARTICLE 18. The Parties to this arrangement shall communicate to each other the regulations relative to air traffic in force in their respective territories. ARTICLE 19. The present arrangement shall be subject to termination by either Party upon sixty days notice given to the other Party or by the enactment by either Party of legislation inconsistent therewith." It is further agreed that the arrangement will be operative as from the date of this note. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, The ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY J. B. M. HERTZOG. Minister of EaJterruil Affair8. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Pretoria. [No. 54]