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ADDITIONAL TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM
Art. III.-The handing over of these territories shall take place on one side and the other not less than twenty days after the date on which the present Treaty is ratified. Art. IV.-A mixed Commission, composed of French and Siamese officers and officials, shall be appointed by the two contracting countries, not less than four months after the ratification of the present Treaty, and shall be charged with delimiting the new frontiers. It shall commence its operations as soon as the season shall permit, and shall carry them out in conformity with the Frotocol of Delimitat- tion annexed to the present Treaty.
Art. V.-All French Asiatic subjects and protected persons who shall be registered at the French Consulates in Siam after the signature of the present Treaty, by application of Article XI of the Convention of the 13th February, 1904, shall be under the jurisdiction of the ordinary Siamese Tribunals.
The jurisdiction of the International Siamese Courts, the institution of which is arranged for by Article XII of the Convention of the 13th February, 1904, shall, subject to the conditions given in the Protocol of Jurisdiction annexed herewith, be extended, throughout the whole kingdom of Siam, to the French Asiatic subjects and protected persons alluded to in Articles X and XI of the same Convention, and who are actually registered at the French Consulates in Siam.
This régime shall terminate and the jurisdiction of the International Courts shall be transferred to the ordinary Siamese Tribunals, after the promulgation and the bringing into force of the Siamese Codes (Penal Code, Civil and Commercial Code, Codes of Procedure, Law of Judicial Organization).
Art. VI.-French Asiatic subjects and protected persons shall enjoy throughout the whole kingdom of Siam the same rights and privileges which the natives of the country possess, notably rights of property, of free residence, and of free circulation.
They shall be subject to the ordinary taxes and "prestations."
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They shall be exempt from military service and shall not be subjected to extra- ordinary requisitions and duties.
Art. VII.—The provisions of the old Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions between France and Siam, which are not modified by the present Treaty, remain in full force.
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Art. VIII. In the event of any difficulty arising in connection with the interpretation of the present Treaty drawn up in French and Siamese, the French text shall be binding.
Art. 1X.-The present Treaty shall be ratified in not less than four months froin the date of signature or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed their seals.
Done at Bangkok, in duplicate, the 23rd March, 1907.
(Signed) V. COLLIN (de Plancy).
DEVAWONGSE VAROPRAKAR.
Protocol concerning the Delimitation of the Frontiers, and annexed to the Treaty of
March 23rd, 1907.
With a view to facilitating the labours of the Commission arranged for in Article IV of the Treaty of to-day's date, and with a view to avoiding any possible difficulties arising in regard to the delimitation, the Government of the French Republic and the Government of His Majesty the King of Siam have agreed upon the following:-
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Clause I. The frontier between French Indo-China and Siam starts from the sea at a point situated opposite the highest summit of the Island of Koh-Kut. It follows from this point a north-easterly direction to the crest of Pnom-Krevanh. formally agreed that, in all cases, the east slopes of these mountains, including the whole of the basin of the Klong-Kopo, should continue to form part of French Indo-China. The frontier follows the crest of the Pnom-Krevanh in a northerly direction as far as Puoin-Thom, which is situated on the main line of the watershed, between
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