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ANNEX.
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Resolution adopted by the Conference on the Limitation of Armanent regarding extra-territoriality in China. Washington, December 10, 1921.
The representatives of the Fowers hereinafter named, participating in the discussion of Pacific and Far Eastern questions in the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, to wit, the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal:
Having taken note of the fact that in the Treaty between
Great Britain and China dated the 5th September, 1902, in the Treaty between the United States of America and China dated the 8th October, 1903, and in the Treaty between Japan and China dated the 8th October, 1903, these several Powers have agreed to give every assistance towards the attainment by the Chinese Government of its expressed desire to reform its judicial sys- tem and to bring it into accord with that of Western nations, and have declared that they are also "prepared to relinquish extra-territorial rights when satisfied that the state of the Chinese laws, the arrangements for their administration, and other considerations warrant" them in so doing;
Being sympathetically disposed owards furthering in this regard the aspiration to which the Chinese delegation gave ex- pression on the 16th November, 1921, to the effect that "imme- diately, or as soon as circumstances will permit, existing limi. tations upon China's political, jurisdictional and administra- tive freedom of action are to be removed";
Considering that any determination in regard to such actio“, as might be appropriate to this end must depend upon the ascer tainment and appreciation of complicated states of fact in re- gard to the laws and the judicial system and the methods of judicial administration of China, which this Conference is not
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