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 2716 CHINESE COURTS-INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. three yea.rs from that date, provided that they mp,y be extended for an additional period upon mutual consent of the parties thereto. NANKING, F~bru,ary 17, 19th Y~ar R.O. (1930). Hsu Mo on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs J. DE PINTO DIAZ on behalf of the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires In the name of the American Minister, JOSEPH E. JACOBS W. MEYRICK HEWLETT on behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Minister L GRONVOLD on behalf of the Norwegian Charge d'Affaires F E H GROENMAN on behalf of the Netherlands charge d'affaires In the name of the French Minister: E. KOECHLIN [SEAL OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS) TM For~ign Signatories to the Ohinese Minister Jor Foreign Affairs NANKING, February 17, 1930. SIR, 8U~hf of...... With reference to the Agreement which we have siped to-day men 118. conce~ the establishment of a District Court and a Branch ~h Court in the International Settlement at Shanghai, we have the honour to request your confirmation of our understanding on the follo~ points: 1. It 18 understood that the Courts established under the present Agreement shall exercise jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases as well as police offences and in<J.uests in the International Settlement at Shanghai, provided that the Jurisdiction of the said courts over per- BOns shall be the same as that of other Chinese Courts and proVided that their territorial jurisdiction shall be the same as that of the Chinese court now functioning in the International Settlement at Shanghai, except (a) mixed criminal cases arising on private for- eign property outside the liInits of the Settlement and (b) !nixed civil cases ansing in areas surrounding the Settlement. 2. It is understood that the present practice regardin~ the respec- tive jurisdictions of the Chinese court now functioning m the Inter- national Settlement and the Court existing in the French Concession shall be followed, pending a dp,finite arrangement between the Chinese Government and the authorities concerned. 3. It is understood that as far as practicable Chinese shall be recommended by the Municipal Council to serve as officers and mem- bers of the judicial police of the Courts established under the present AgI'eement. It is further understood that amonK the officers of the judicial police appointed by the President of the Branch High Court under Article VI of the present Agreement, there will be one to be desi~ated by the Municipal Council, to whom will be allotted by the President an office on the Court premises and who will make an