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  3. As the proposals regarding (1) military exactions or contribu-
tions, (2) customs duties, and (3) consular privileges, concern pro-
visions which are also stipulated in the treaties with other Powers,
it was considered desirable to take up the discussion of these points
at the time of the general revision of treaties which was due to take
place in 1936. As the limitation of the right to set up monopolies
exists in the American Treaty only, His Majesty's Government pro-
posed that only Article 3 dealing with monopolies, should be dealt
with in the Supplementary Treaty to be concluded, and, on this ques-
tion, accepted the counter-proposal of the Department of State and,
on the 21st of January 1935, authorized the Siamese Minister at
Washington to sign the Supplementary Treaty accordingly.7
  4. The Department of State, however, asked that the revision of
Article 3 also should be left in abeyance pending the general revision.
  5. Subsequently, in December 1935, through the good offices of Dr.
Sayre,8 the Department of State expressed its readiness to sign the
Supplementary Treaty with a new Article 3 as per counter-proposal
of the Department of State already accepted by His Majesty's Gov-
ernment, or if His Majesty's Government preferred, the Department
of State would accept the provisions of the Article concerning monop-
olies in the Trade Agreement between the United States of America
and Canada9 (cf. Annex 3), provided however that an exchange of
Notes as per drafts in Annexes 410 and 5,11 should take place at the
time of the signature of the Supplementary Treaty.
  6. As His Majesty's Government hope to be able to start negotia-
tions for the general revision of treaties with the various Powers in
June next, it would appear to be desirable to resume the negotiation
with the Department of State at that time. Instructions for this
purpose will be sent to the Siamese Minister at Washington about
June.12
  7. The Siamese Minister at Washington will also be requested to
keep H. E. Mr. Baker 13 au courant of the lines along which the nego-
tiation is to proceed.
  8. Apart from the points already under negotiation, on which His
Majesty's Government will endeavour to find solutions which would
  See memorandum from the Siamese Legation, February 25, 1935, Foreign
Relations, 1935, vol. iii, p. 1105.
1 See memoranda by the Assistant Secretary of State, dated December 2 and
December 9, 1935, ibid., pp. 1108 and 1110.
9 Signed at Washington, November 15, 1935; Department of State Executive
Agreement Series No. 91, or 49 Stat. 3960. See article VIII on monopolies.
' For Department's draft note handed by Mr. Sayre to the Siamese Minister,
December 2, 1935, see Foreign Relations, 1935, voL iII, p. 1109.
  "For draft reply from the Siamese Government, see ibid., p. 1111.
  '" Such instructions, if sent to the Siamese Minister, were not conveyed
to the
Department until November 5, 1936, when the Siamese Minister gave notice
of the
termination of the treaty. See memorandum by the Chief of the Division of
Far
Eastern Affairs, November 5, p. 998.
" James M. Baker, Minister to Siam, temporarily In Washington.
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