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(2.) Les deux Puissances Signataires s'engagent a pourvoir chacune dune residence leurs Representants respectifs et a faire construire conjointeinent les immeubles necessaires au logement dcs membres dv Tribunal Mixte, au fonotionnement de cc Tribunal et a celui dcs services communs. (3.) Les terrains necessaires a I'edification dcs dits batiments seront acquis conjointement, soit a I'amiable, soit, s'il est necessaire, par voie d'expropriation. Article IV. — Services communs. (1.) Seront considered comme "services communs " les services de la police, dcs postes et telegraphes, dcs travaux d'interet general, dcs ports et rades, dv balisage et dcs feux, de la police sanitaire, et le service financier. (2.) Cos services seront organises et diriges conjointement par les Hauts Commissaires et par leurs Delegues. (3.) II sera einis pour les Nouvelles-Hebrides, dans les conditions prevues par les Conventions Internationales relatives aux postes, une serie speciale de figurines postales. (4.) Auront cours legal dans I'Archipel les monnaies Francaise et Anglaise, ainsi que les billets dcs banques autorisees par I'une ou par l'autre Puissance. Article V. — Dispositions financieres. (1.) Chacune dcs deux Puissances Signataires pourvoira aux depenses de son administration propre dans I'Archipel. (2.) Les depenses dv Tribunal Mixte et dcs services coimnuns seront acquittees au moyeu dv produit dcs taxes locales gui seront etablies par les Hauts Commissaires agissant conjointement, dv produit dcs amendes, dv produit dcs postes, et de toutes autres recettes dun caraetere commun. En cas d'insuffisance de cos produits, les deux Puissances Signataires supporteront chacune par moitie le deficit. Article VI. — Commission Navale Mixte. (1.) La Commission Navale Mixte prevue par I'Article II de la Convention dv 16 Novembre 1887, sera chargee de cooperer au maintien de l'ordre dans I'Archipel. (2.) Hors les cas d'urgenco, son action ne s'exercera que sur requisition concertee dcs deux Hauts Commissaires ou de leurs Delegues. (3.) Les dispositions de la Convention dv 16 Novembre 1887, ainsi que celles de la Declaration signee a Paris le 26 Janvier 1888 entre le Gouvernement Francais et le Gouvernement Britannique, continueront a etre observees, pour tout cc gui ne sera pas contraire a la presente Convention. II en sera de meme dv Reglement adopte le 26 Janvier 1888 par les deux Gouvernements pour servir d'instructions a la Commission Navale Mixte. (4.) La Commission Navale Mixte adressera copie de ses rapports sur ses operations a chacun dcs deux Hauts Commissaires et a chacun dcs deux Commissaires-Residents.

(2.) The two Signatory Powers undertake respectively to provide their Representatives with houses, and shall jointly erect quarters for the members of the Joint Court, together with a Courthouse, and offices for the public services to be undertaken in common. (3.) The land required for these buildings shall be acquired by the two Powers jointly either by agreement or, if necessary, compulsorily. Article IV. — Public Services undertaken in Common. (1.) The following public services shall be undertaken in common : Police, posts and telegraphs, public works, ports and harbours, buoys and lighthouses, public health, finance. (2.) These public services shall be organized and directed by the High Commissioners and their delegates jointly. (3.) .Special postage-stamps shall be issued for the New Hebrides, in conformity with the International Postal Convention. (4.) English and French money and banknotes authorised by either Power shall be legal tender in the Group. Article V. — Financial Provisions. (1.) Each of the two Signatory Powers shall defray the expenses of its own administration in the Group. (2.) The expenses of the Joint Court and of the public services undertaken in common shall be defrayed out of local taxes, to be imposed by the High Commissioners jointly, the receipts from fines and from the postal service, and all other revenue of a joint character. In the event of the revenue from the above proving insufficient, the two Signatory Powers shall each pay one-half of the deficit. Article VI. — Joint Naval Commission. (1.) It shall be the duty of the Joint Naval Commission, established by Article II of the Convention of the 16th November, 1887, to cooperate in maintaining order in the Group. (2.) Except in case of urgency, it shall only act on the joint request of the two High Commissioners or their delegates. (3.) The Convention of the lGth November, 1887, the declaration signed in Paris on the 26th January, 1888, between the British and French Governments, and the regulations adopted on the same daj r by the two Governments as instructions for the Joint Naval Commission, shall remain in force, except where contrary to the present Convention. (4.) The Joint Naval Commission shall send copies of the reports on its operations to each of the two High Commissioners and to each of the two Resident Commissioners.

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