“ The Government of Palestine will co-operate, so far as religious and other local conditions permit, in the execution of a common policy adopted by the League of Nations for preventing and combating disease, including diseases of animals and plants. ”

“ The Government of Palestine shall take steps within twelve months from the exchange of ratifications of this convention to enact and thereafter to execute a Law of Antiquities based on the instructions contained in Annex 23 of this convention, which shall replace the former Ottoman Law of Antiquities. No attempt shall be made by . . . . to obtain for the archaeo­ logical research of its own citizens, treatment more favourable than that which is accorded to the archaeological research of other nations. ”

“ No civil or political right of any citizen of Palestine shall be conditional upon, nor shall its exercise be affected by, any consideration of race, sex or faith or a change of faith, provided that this shall not prevent the selection of official representatives of races or faiths or forbid the definition of the fran­chise for their selection on the basis of race or faith. ”

“ No private profits distributed by such agency shall exceed a reasonable rate of interest on the capital and any further profits shall be utilised by it for the benefit of the country in a manner approved by the mandatory. ”

“ Associating themselves accordingly with the Declaration originally made by the British Government and assented to by the other Allied and Asso­ciated Powers in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country ”