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 54STAT.] LIBERIA-CONSULAR OFFICERS-OCT. 7, 1938 All consular officers and employees, nationals of the State appointing them, shall be exempt from the payment of taxes on the salary, fees or wages received by them in compensation for their consular services. The exemptions of the foregoing paragraph shall apply equally to officials who are duly appointed by one of the High Contracting Parties to exercise in its behalf essential governmental functions in the territory of the other High Contracting Party, provided that such officials shall be nationals of the State appointing them and shall not be engaged in private occupations for gain within the coun- try to which they are accredited. The State appointing them shall communicate to the other State satisfactory evidence of the appoint- ment and shall indicate the character of the service of the officials to whom the exemptions of this Article are intended to apply. The Government of each High Contracting Party shall have the right to lease land and to lease acquire and own buildings required for diplomatic or consular premises in the territory of the other High Contracting Party and also to erect buildings in such territory for the purposes stated subject to local building regulations. Lands and buildings situated in the territory of either High Con- tracting Party, of which the other High Contracting Party is the legal or equitable owner and which are used exclusively for govern- mental purposes by that owner, shall be exempt from taxation of every kind, National, State, Provincial and Municipal, other than assessments levied for services or local public improvements by which the premises are benefited. ARTICLE IV Each of the High Contracting Parties agrees to permit the entry free of all duty and without examination of any kind, of all furniture, equipment and supplies intended for official use in the consular offices of the other, and to extend to such consular officers of the other and their families and suites as are its nationals, the privilege of entry free of duty of their baggage and all other personal property whether accompanying the officer, his family or suite, to his post or imported at any time during his incumbency thereof; provided, nevertheless, that no article, the importation of which is prohibited by the law of either of the High Contracting Parties, may be brought into its territories. The exemptions of the foregoing paragraph shall apply equally to officials who are duly appointed by one of the High Contracting Parties to exercise in its behalf essential governmental functions in the territory of the other High Contracting Party, provided that such officials shall be nationals of the State appointing them and shall not be engaged in private occupations for gain within the country to which they are accredited. The State appointing them shall com- municate to the other satisfactory evidence of the appointment and shall indicate the character of the service of the officials to whom the exemptions of this Article are intended to apply. 1753 Application to other representatives. Lease or acquisition of realty. Erection of build- ings. Government-owned realty, tax exemption. Exception. Free entry of office supplies and personal property. Prohibited articles. Application to other representatives.

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