Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/221

 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. 1827 No.3. Schedule n-contd. British Offtciols Agreement 11UUle 'U/luler Artick $ of tM Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Iraq of October 10, l~ft. We, the undersigned plenipotentiari~ of His Britannic Majesty and of His Majesty the King of Iraq respectively, having been duly authorised, met to~ther this 25th day of March, 1924, corresponding to the 19th day of Sha'ban, 1342, in order to sign the following agree- m' nt subsidiary to article 2 of the Treaty of .Alliance concluded be- tween their Majesti~ aforesaid on the 10th day of October2 1922, corresponding to the 19th day of Sa'far, 1341, Hijrah, subJect to ratification. THE AGREEMENT. WlIEBEAS a treaty of alliance between His Britannic Majesty and his Maj~ty the King of Iraq was signed at Bagdad on the 10th day of October, 1922, corr~ponding with the 19th day of Sa'far, 1341, Hijrah, and a protocol to the said treaty was signed at Bagdad on the 30th day of April, 1923, corresponding with the 14th day of Ramazan, 1341, Hijrah; and WHEREAS by article 2 of the said treaty His Majesty the King of Iraq undertak~ that for the period of the same treaty no gazetted official of other than Iraq nationality shall be appomted m Iraq without the concurrence of His Britannic Majesty; and WHEREAS by the same article i1r is provided that a separate agreement regulating the numbers and conditions of employment of British officials so appoint~d in the Iraq Government shall be concluded between the High Contracting Parties: Now THEREFORE it is agreed as follows:- ARTICLE 1. The Iraq Government agrees to appoint a British official approved by the High Commissioner as and when it may be requested to do so to any of the posts enumerated in schedule 1 hereto annexed. ARTICLE 2. The Iraq Government agrees that any British official appointed to serve the Iraq Government in any of the posts reserved under article 1 of this agreement, or in any of tlie posts enumerated in schedule 2, shall be given a contract on the pay and grading prescribed for it in the said schedule and embOdying the terms and conditions of service set forth in schedule 3, save and except that British officers seconded or appointed to serve under the Ministry of Defence of the Iraq Government shall be given contracts on the pay and grading prescribed in schedule 4, and embodying the terms and conditions of service prescribed in schedule 4. ARTICLE 3. Subject to the provisions of article 2 of the Treaty of Alliance, nothing in this agreement shall prevent the Iraq Government from engaging British technical or scientific experts or British clerical and subordinate staff on special contracts. ARTICLE 4. The Iraq Government undertakes that the obligations accepted by them under any contract of employment signed and issued in