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55 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA-NAVAL AND AIR BASES-MAR. 27, 1941 to prevent abuse of the customs privileges granted under this Article. There shall be co-operation between such Authorities and the Govern- ment of the Territory to this end. ARTICLE XV. Wireless and Cables. (1) Except with the consent of the Government of the Territory, no wireless station shall be established or submarine cable landed in a Leased Area otherwise than for military purposes. (2) All questions relating to frequencies, power and like matters, used by apparatus designed to emit electric radiation, shall be settled by mutual arrangement. ARTICLE XVI. Postal Facilities. The United States shall have the right to establish United States Post Offices in the Leased Areas for the exclusive use of the United States forces, and civilian personnel (including contractors and their employees) who are nationals of the United States and employed in connection with the construction, maintenance, operation or defence of the Bases, and the families of such persons, for domestic use between United States Post Offices in Leased Areas and between such Post Offices and other United States Post Offices and Post Offices in the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippine Islands. ARTICLE XVII. Taxation. (1) No member of the United States forces or national of the United States, serving or employed in the Territory in connection with the construction, maintenance, operation or defence of the Bases, and residing in the Territory by reason only of such employ- ment, or his wife or minor children, shall be liable to pay income tax in the Territory except in respect of income derived from the Territory. (2) No such person shall be liable to pay in the Territory any poll tax or similar tax on his person, or any tax on ownership or use of property which is inside a Leased Area, or situated outside the Territory. (3) No person ordinarily resident in the United States shall be liable to pay income tax in the Territory in respect of any profits derived under a contract made in the United States with the Govern- ment of the United States in connection with the construction, main- tenance, operation or defence of the Bases, or any tax in the nature of a licence in respect of any service or work for the United States in connection with the construction, maintenance, operation or defence of the Bases. 1567