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 TREATY—GREA'I` BRITAIN. FEBRUARY 25, 1905. 2871 The jurisdiction exercised thereunder b consular courts of the J§’iSdi°“°¤°f°°“S“· United States in the British Protectorate of 5Zanzibar and in that part Ia coms mummcem of the mainland dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar which is under British protection, and all the exceptional privileges. exemptions, and immunities enjoyed by citizens of the United States as a art of or ap urtenant to such urisdiction, shall absolutely cease and determine. It being understood, however, that this renunciation shall not take effect until such time as the rights of extraterritoriality enjoyed in Zanzibar by other nations shall have been likewise renounced. ARTICLE II. In consideration of this renunciation by the United States of America, 0O*,§§,;h°’i*Y *0 Bmish the Government of His Britannic Majesty agrees to empower the ` competent British courts which have been established in the British Protectorate of Zanzibar and in that part of the mainland dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar which is under British protection, to exercise jurisdiction over citizens of the United States the same as over British subjects and British protected persons, and that . citizens of the United States shall have in and before said courts all the rights and privile es that belong and are accorded therein to British subjects and to%ritish protected persons. A ~ » ARTICLE III. » The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the Rm'*°¤'i°¤· United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Convention and have hereunto atlixed our seals. Done in duplicate at the City of Viiashington this twenty-fifth day s*g““““'°“- gf February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ve. A Jonn HAY jenn,.} H M Dumnn SEAL. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratiiications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and tive; Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President *"°°*°m”‘°¤- of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof, I` have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be atlixed. _ Done at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of June, [SEAL ·I in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, ' and of the Inde ndence of the United States of America the one hundred angetwentymiuth., _ Trmononm Roosnvnur By the President:. Fnaxcrs B. Looms. Acting Secretmy of State. ‘ vox. xxxiv, rr 3--3