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''Convention between the United States of America, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden and Norway, for the establishment of the right of protection in Morocco. Concluded July 3, 1880; ratification advised by the Senate May 5, 1881; ratified by the President May 10, 1881; proclaimed December'' 21, 1881.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Whereas a Convention for the establishment on fixed and uniform bases of the exercise of the right of protection in Morocco and for the settlement of certain questions connected therewith, between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, His Majesty the King of Denmark, His Majesty the King of Spain, His Excellency the President of the French Republic, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, was signed by their plenipotentiaries at Madrid, on the third day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the French text of which Convention is word for word as follows: