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 CONVENTION-GREAT BRITAIN—PA.LESTINE. DDECEMBER 3, 1924. 2189 ¢¢ARTICLE 21. V Ma¤date—Contd. " The Mandatorg shall secure the enactment within twelve months from this ate, and shall ensure the execution of a Law of Antiquities based on thefollowing rules. This law shall ensure equality of treatment in the matter of excavations and archa-zo· logical research to the nationals of all States members of the League of Nations. “(1) "‘Antiquity’ means any construction or any product of human activity earlier than the year A. n. 1700. "(2) " The law for the protection of antiquities shall proceed by encouragement rather than b threat. · “Any rson who, having  vered an antiquity without being furnisher with the authorisation referred to in paragraph 5 re- ports the same to an oiiicial of the competent Department, shall be rewarded according to the value of the discovery. "(3) " No antiquity malyl beqdisposed of except to the competent Department, un ess t °s Department renounces the acquisition of any such antiquity. ‘ " No antiquitg may leave the country without an export licence from the said epaitment. » "(4) “A.ny person who malicio'usly or negligentlkdestroys or dam· ages an antiquity shall be liable to a penalty to fixed. "(5) "No clearin of ground or di ging with the object of finding antiquities sha§ be permitted, under penalty of fine, except to per- sons authorised by the competent Department. "(6) " Equitable terms shall be fixed for expropriation, temporary or permanent, of lands which might be of historical or archaeological mterest. “( . 7) "Authorisation to excavate shall only be granted to persons who show_ sufficient guarantees of archaeological experience. The Adinuustration 0 Palestine shall not, in granting these authori- satxons, act in such a way as to exclude scholars of any nation without good grounds. “( 8) "·The proceeds of excavations may be divided between the excavator and the comgetent Department in a proportion fixed by that Department. If ivision seems impossible for scientific rea- sqnsi tlgeugxcavator shall receive a fair indemnity in lieu of a part o e.

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