500.C114/445c
The Chargé in Liberia (Clark) to
the Secretary of State
Monrovia, May 12,
1926.
[Received June 17.]
No. 370
DiplomaticSir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s instruction No. 270 of February 12, 1926,22 and, in confirmation of my telegram of this
date,23 to enclose
herewith in duplicate a certified true copy of the Liberian Government’s
reply to my note of May 7, 1926, with reference
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to the acceptance by the Liberian Government of the
conditions, reservations and understandings contained in the Senate
Resolution of January 27, 1926.
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure]
The Liberian Secretary of State (Barclay) to the American Chargé (Clark)
Monrovia, May 11,
1926.
459/DSir: I have the honour to acknowledge
receipt of your despatch dated May 7, 1926, by which I am advised
for the information of the Liberian Government that the Senate of
the United States have given their advice and consent to the
adherence on the part of the United States to the Protocol of
Signature of the Statute for the Permanent Court of International
Justice, dated December 16, 1920 and the adjoined Statute for the
Court of International Justice, without accepting the optional
clause for compulsory jurisdiction contained in said Statute, under
certain conditions, reservations and understandings and subject to
the condition that Powers Signatory to the said Protocol accept such
conditions reservations and understandings.
In reply to this despatch I have the honour to say that the
Government of the Republic of Liberia for and on behalf of said
Republic accept so far as they relate to questions which may arise
between the Republic of Liberia and the United States the
conditions, reservations and understandings contained in the
Senate’s Resolution as a part and a condition of the adherence of
the United States to the said Protocol and Statute.
I have [etc.]
