SEAL OF GA-DEN MONASTERY. SEAL OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. AMPTHILL, Viceroy and Governor-General of India. This Convention was ratified by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council at Simla on the eleventh day of November, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and four. S. M. FRASER, Secretary to the Government of India, Declaration signed by his Excellency the Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India and appended to the ratified Convention of seventh September, 1904. His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, having ratified the Convention which was concluded at Lhasa on seventh September, 1904, by Colonel Younghusband, C. I. E., British Commissioner for Tibet Frontier Matters, on behalf of His Britannic Majesty's Government; and by Lo-Sang Gyal-Tsen, the Ga-den Ti-Rimpoche, and the representatives of the Council, of the three monasteries Sera, Drepung, and Ga-den, and of the ecclesiastical and lay officials of the National Assembly, on behalf of the Government of Tibet, is pleased to direct as an act of grace that the sum of money which the Tibetan Government have bound themselves under the terms of Article VI of the said Convention to pay to His Majesty's Government as an indemnity for the expenses incurred by the latter in connection with the despatch of armed forces to Lhasa, be reduced from Rs. 75,00,000 to Rs. 25,00,000; and to declare that the British occupation of the Chumbi valley shall cease after due payment of three annual instalments of the said indemnity as fixed by the said Article, provided, however, that the trade marts as stipulated in Article II of the Convention shall have been effectively opened for three years as provided in Article VI of the Convention; and that, in the meantime, the Tibetans shall have faithfully complied with the terms of the said Convention in all other respects. AMPTHILL, Viceroy and Governor-General of India. This declaration was signed by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council at Simla on the eleventh day of November, A. D., one thousand nine hundred and four. S. M. FRASER, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARIES OF EMBASSY AND LEGATION. EXECUTIVE ORDER, NOVEMBER 10, 1905. It is hereby ordered that vacancies in the office of Secretary of Embassy or Legation shall hereafter be filled or (a) By transfer or promotion from some branch of the foreign service, (b) By the appointment of a person who, having furnished satisfactory evidence of character, responsibility and capacity, and being thereupon selected by the President for examination, is found upon such examination to be qualified for the position. THE WHITE HOUSE, November 10th, 1905. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ORDER BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE. In pursuance of the Executive order of November 10, 1905, the second assistant secretary of state, the solicitor for the department of state, and the chief of the diplomatic bureau, or the persons for the time being respectively discharging the duties of said officers, are hereby constituted a board, whose duty it shall be, by appropriate examination, to determine the qualifications of persons selected by the President therefor, to be appointed as secretaries of embassies or legations. Vacancies occurring in said board, or such changes in the membership thereof as experience may prove to be desirable will be dealt with by additional regulations as occasion may require. The examination herein provided shall be held from time to time at the Department of State, in Washington, upon such notice to candidates as shall give them reasonable opportunity to attend for the purpose in question. Such examinations shall be both oral and in writing. The subjects. to which the examination shall relate are to be: Familiarity with at least one foreign language will be required. This language may be either the language spoken in the country in which the embassy or legation is located, or French. The Examining Board is authorized to issue such notices and to make all such rules as it may deem necessary to accomplish the objects of this regulation, and immediately upon the conclusion of such examination shall make to the secretary of state a report in writing stating whether in its judgment the candidate is or is not qualified for the particular position applied for, and, if the decision is adverse to the candidate, also briefly summarizing the grounds of such decision. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 10th, 1905. ELIHU ROOT. LIST OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES CORRECTED TO JANUARY 1, 1907. I certify that the accompanying list of diplomatic officers of the United States is true and correct up to and including January 1, 1907. Austria- } Brazil Chile Charles S. Francis, Amb. E. & P. Lt. John McClintock, Mil. Att.'...... Vienna Vienna. N. Y Vienna m..... 2,625 17,500 3,000 Vienna Brussels .... July 11, 1902 7,500 Copenhagen .. Mich Mar. 8, 1905 7,500 Mass .... Apr. 9, 1906 2,000 Sec. of Leg. Athens 2,000 Guatemala 10,000 Me Guatemala 10,000 Guatemala Me Pa Conn France.. Ill. Mar. 25, 1905 3,000 Dec. 10, 1902 2,000 Mass Oct. |