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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES ARTICLE 4. The articles, products, materials and equipment listed in articles 1 and 2 of this decree are admitted duty free only if they are imported from countries that are members of the League of Nations, from the United States of America, or from countries benefiting from special tariff agreements. Goods of all kinds, imported by privileged establishments or groups pay the maximum rate of duty when they originate in countries other than those referred to above. ARTICLE 5. Although not included among the establishments to which the provisions of articles 1 and 2 of this decree apply, private clinics may benefit, for their free beds, from the exemption from duty provided for in paragraph E of article 1 above. ARTICLE 6. All prior provisions contrary to this decree, which will come into force on January 1, 1935, are and remain revoked. ARTICLE 7. The Secretary General and Inspector General of Cus- toms are charged, each one in that which concerns him, with the execution of this decree. The Secretary General LAGARDE The Legislative Adviser A. MAZAS The Inspector General of Cus- toms RoUx BEIRUT, December 20, 1934. The High Commissioner D. DE MARTEL The Adviser of the High Commission in FinancialAffairs ABADIE GASQUIN The American Ambassador (Bullitt) to the French Ministerfor Foreign Affairs (Delbos) No. 221 EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Paris,February 18, 1937. EXCELLENCY: Proposal for eodi- I have received Your Excellency's note enclosing a copy of the fcation of decree. decree of the French High Commissioner in Syria, No. 292/LR of December 20, 1934, which was destined to make precise the privileges granted in the exchange of notes between M. Poincar6 and Ambassador Herrick, dated, respectively, November 2, 1923, 1 and December 18 of the same year,' for the American educational, religious and phil- anthropic institutions in Syria and the Lebanon. I note that you invite the comment of my Government. This matter has been made the subject of considerable corre- spondence between the Embassy and the Ministry, and the Con- sulate General at Beirut and the High Commission, and my Govern- 43 stat. 1821. ment has always reserved the rights granted it by the Convention between the United States of America and France regarding the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, dated April 4, 1924, and more specifically mentioned in the exchange of notes above referred to, and I Not printed. f

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