ART. 155. The youths over 14 years of age and the men of the second reserve liable to be called as supplementaries to active service who should before this takes place desire to go abroad may exempt themselves beforehand by paying 150$000 reis. This bounty should be paid at one time. ART. 156. Those individuals not yet incorporated in the active units who request from the secretary of the committee for the drawing of lots a permit with which they present themselves to the commander of the recruits and reserve district, who will supply them with a fresh permit for them to pay the price of their exemption on the respective installment in the central treasury of the district or in the treasury of the concelho. § 1. The receipt of the sum paid down will be recorded in the archives of the head district offices, the bounty being definitely acknowledged after being paid in full and noted down in the recruiting books. § 2. The youths exempted before being brought before the committee of inspectors of the recruits will be enlisted without inspection, and if, after having enlisted in the second reserve, they are judged incapable of military service by the hospital committee, they shall have no right whatever to restitution. $4. Individuals who request exemption have no right to the subsidy and transport in article 77. § 5. The commander of the recruit and reserve districts will send in to the war office, or to the marine office in the case of men subject to naval service, monthly reports of the youths exempted before enlistment and of those enlisted in the second reserve who were exempted before presenting themselves in active service units. When there are no exemptions during the month the commanders referred to will substitute for the report a note communicating the fact. ART. 157. To make effective the exemptions of the men incorporated during the month the commanders referred to will substitute for the report a note communicating the fact. § 2. The men who wish to secure exemption will duly request from the commanders of the corps permits (according to form No. 36) to permit them to pay into the treasury of the district where their corps in quartered the accounts of their bounties, stating at the same time whether they wish to pay by installments, should they be included in § 1 of article 154. 2. The written petitions of the men asking to be allowed to pay their bounties should be sent into the war office, or to the marine office when the men are for naval service, accompanied by receipts for the sums paid in by the book of military notes and its corresponding information. 3. The exceptions will only be considered as affected when the bounty has been all paid in. The commander of the corps should communicate in his book of military notes that the man has paid any debt he may have in the administrative council, designating the time he actually served, leaves of all kinds not being counted excepting that which it is usual to grant at Christmas, from Quinquagesima Sunday until Ash Wednesday Sunday, and at Easter, illness and other contingencies not being counted. 4. Registered leave of absence will be given to those men who send in their petitions for exemptions, having fulfilled the preceding condition, until their petition be acted upon at headquarters, when the bounties are paid down in lump sums or until the last installments are paid, when it is by installments. 5. The men who send in petitions to be exempted, whatever may be their status, have no right to payment of return passage to their domicile on the occasion when the exemption is granted them. ART. 158. When the bounty is paid by installments those interested should, apart from the written intention, request for themselves or for their representatives, after the lapse of six months from the time their permit was given them, a fresh permit for the payment of the second installment, acting in the same manner, with relation to the third and last installment of the bounty, for fear the exemption be not effective in spite of the responsibility taken by persons acting as their sureties, there being no right to the restitution of installments already paid in. § 1. In the recruit and reserve district and in the active units a notebook will be kept in which will be inscribed the installmentst that are paid in. The commanders of the active units will send to the war office a monthly report of the installments paid in. ART. 159. When the stamps of the office where the receipt was signed is not legible the different signatures should be made before and certified by a notary. The receipt will always indicate the amount of the installment paid in when the bounties are paid by installments. ART. 160. The youths who wish to pay their bounties in a recruit or reserve district, other than that in which they are entered on the military lists, should send in a written petition to the commander of the military division in which they reside and to the military commander when they reside in the islands adjoining Portugal. Care will be taken at the respective headquarters that the permit (form No. 30) shall be remitted from the district of the military lists to that of the residence of the youths referred to, so that in the latter the permits may be drawn up and given to those interested. After the receipt for payments has been presented the youths will be enlisted in the recruit and reserve district of their place of residence, if their enlistment has not been previously verified. The receipt for the payment of the bounties will afterwards be sent to the residence district to that of the conscription lists, so that they be written down in the receipt book and the documents be recorded in the archives. 。 8. The above will also hold good with regard to soldiers of the second reserve who wish to obtain their exemption because they are liable to be called to active service as supplementaries. ART. 161. The commanders of the recruit and reserve districts should not demand the characteristic marks in the permits of youths residing in the oversea colonies or in a foreign country who wish to pay their bounties through a representative. [Extracts from the Diario do Governo, July 1, 1907.1 Instructions to which the decree of this date (June 27, 1907) refers. 1. Emigrants over 14 years of age, on whom military service is not yet enforced, and who have fulfilled the conditions established in section 1 of article 4 of the law of the 25th of April, 1907, when they attain the age for conscription in the military lists, can obtain their freedom from active service and from the first reserve by paying a bounty of 150$000 reis, account being taken of any deposit that may have been made before the Portuguese consul or vice-consul of the locality where they reside, or, failing that, at the nearest locality possessing a consular functionary. 2. The emigrants under 14 years of age, on attaining the legal age for inscription on the military lists, secure exemption for themselves by paying the sum of 150$000 reis before the above-mentioned authorities. 3. The aforesaid disposition applied to individuals who may have emigrated before the 25th of April, 1907, when they are over 26 years of age and are considered delinquents, and also to emigrants over 14 years of age who do not fulfill the conditions included in article 155 of the rules for the service of the 24th of December, 1901, when they attain the legal age for inscription in the military lists. 4. Individuals over 20 years of age and under 30 who are not called for conscription can obtain exemption for 150$000 reis, their intention being afterwards legalized by being recorded in the military lists. 5. Individuals who have not yet attained 26 years of age and are declared delinquents will pay a bounty of 300$000 reis. 6. The amount of the exemption will be paid in a lump sum. 7. The consular functionary will give receipts to the persons interested of the amount received, and will immediately request the respective military notebooks from the war office. The receipts will constitute documents until the exempted men receive their record books, which should be requested at the consulate within six months of the date on which the bounty was paid, and given in exchange for the respective receipts. 8. Immediately after the payment of the bounties the exempted men will take the oath of fealty, excepting those already enlisted in the second reserve, and the respective notes m/85 of the Portuguese consular rules will be sent every month to the war office. 9. Emigrants who, in the conditions of section 1 of article 4 of the aforesaid law, have a right to the amount of bounty or deposit they may have made before emigrating should address a written petition to the war office for its restitution within two years from the date on which for any reason they obtained their release from active service. After this period of time they lose all right to restitution. 10. The interest on the bonus will be sent every month to the Bank of Portugal by a check to order of the war office with a copy of the report as here shown, in which the statement should be made that it is for the bonus fund. 11. When such procedure is impossible the remittance may be made through the respective consular functionary to the nearest consulate, where the measures indicated in depositions 10 and 11 can be taken by check to order of the same office on any thoroughly trustworthy bank in Lisbon or Oporto. 12. When even this procedure is impracticable the same remittance may be made by the respective consular functionary to the nearest consulate where one of the means of remitting prescribed in 10 and 11 can be adopted. 13. The exempt men, under these conditions, would be considered as residing in the localities where they live, the documents required in article 70, section 4, of the regulations for the reserve being dispensed with. 14. The consular functionaries will directly communicate with the war office for the observance of the said conditions. [Inclosure 2.- -Translation.] SECTION IV.-Regulations governing army reserves. ART. 70. Recruits who desire to go abroad should deliver to the district commandant their documents, accompanied by enlistment papers in due form, and they must, besides, furnish a record of their military life and the identification proofs of the recruits. These will deliver the report to the headquarters of the division, which will forward it to the commanding officer, who, with the indorsement of the secretary, in case it is approved, will transmit the permit to the recruits, and they, in turn, will present the same to the civil authorities. No. 336.] Minister Bryan to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, SIR: I have the honor to confirm my cable message of this date as follows, and to report that the minister for foreign affairs to-day corroborated what he told me at our last interview, stating that his colleague of the war office has fulfilled the promise to release Francisco Freitas from custody in Funchal. I have, etc., CHARLES PAGE BRYAN. File No. 2956/9-11. No. 139.] The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Bryan. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 10 1907. SIR: The department has received your No. 333 and the translation of the Portuguese regulations concerning military service, and notes your statement that the Portuguese authorities maintain that the new regulations will remove the chief cause of any questions which may have arisen between this Government and the Portuguese Government concerning the status of American citizens formerly subjects of Portugal when they return to that country. The department has examined the new regulations, but is of opinion that they do not touch the question which it is desired to have regulated by a naturalization convention between the two Governments. The object of such a convention would be to define the rights of the citizens or subjects of either country when they return to the other country, whereas the regulations recently adopted by the Portuguese Government relate entirely to the performance of military service and exemption from military service of Portuguese subjects. You are instructed, therefore, to inform the Portuguese Government of this view, and to state that this Government is strongly of opinion that the conclusion of the convention it has proposed will certainly have a beneficial influence in conserving the friendly relations which so happily exist between the United States and Portugal. I am, etc., ALVEY A. ADEE. File No. 2956/13. No. 342.] Minister Bryan to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, Lisbon, August 26, 1907. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge your instructions of August 10, 1907 (file No. 2956/9-11) in relation to a naturalization convention between the United States of America and Portugal. In my No. 328, of July 9, 1907, I informed the department that I had expressed to the minister for foreign affairs as my opinion one identical with that you now direct me to suggest in favor of a naturalization convention. The minister after due consideration acquiesced in our contention and, as previously reported, referred the proposed treaty to the minister of justice to put in form for submission to us. Several times since the minister for foreign affairs has referred to this subject, always expressing hope that the proposed convention may soon be concluded as a further guarantee of the continuance of the friendly relations happily existing between our countries. I have, etc., CHARLES PAGE BRYAN. ROUMANIA AND SERVIA. COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND ITALY. File No. 5884/-1. No. 68.] Chargé Schuyler to the Secretary of State. a AMERICAN LEGATION, Bucharest, April 2, 1907. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith two copies of the Monitorul Oficial of to-day's date, which contains the original French text and a translation into Roumanian of the treaty of commerce between Roumania and Italy, of which the text was signed at Bucharest on November 22 (December 5), 1906, and the ratifications exchanged on March 19 (April 1), 1907. To this treaty was added a final protocol signed and ratified the same dates and a convention for the protection of works of literature and are also of the same date. The text of the convention will be found printed immediately after the final protocol of the treaty of commerce. It provides that books published and copyrighted in either of the two countries will enjoy all rights of protection in the other country which is accorded to books published in that country. I have, etc., MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER. COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION TREATY BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND File No. 6200/-1. No. 72.] FRANCE. Chargé Schuyler to the Secretary of State. AMERICAN LEGATION, Bucharest, April 18, 1907. SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a part of the Monitorul Oficial for to-day, which contains the original text in French and a translation into Roumanian of the treaty of commerce and navigation between Roumania and France, concluded at Paris on March 6, 1907, and approved by the Roumanian Senate on March 9 (22), to which is appended a " Declaration " and an "Arrangement concerning the protection of works of literature and art which places France and Roumania reciprocally on the footing of the most favored nations. |