The Mandate over Trans-Jordan. British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 13

CHAPTER I.

Article 7.

Nothing contained in the present convention shall be affected by any modification which may be made in the terms of the mandate, as recited above, unless such modification shall have been assented to by the United States.

Article 8.

The present convention shall be ratified in accordance with the respective constitutional methods of the High Contracting Parties. The ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as practicable. The present convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications.

In witness whereof, the undersigned have signed the present convention, and have thereunto affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate at London, this 3rd day of December, 1924.

(Seal)

FRANK B. KELLOGG.

(Seal)

AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN."

The Mandate over Trans-Jordan.

7. By an Order dated 1st September, 1922• the territory lying to the east of the Jordan and known as Trans-Jordan was excluded from the application of the Palestine Order-in-Council, 1922, (see chapter IV) and on the 16th September, 1922, the Council of the League approved a memorandum submitted by the British Government reciting Article 25 of the Mandate, defining the limits of Trans-Jordan, and inviting the Council to agree that recitals 2 and 3 of the Preamble, Articles 4, 6, 13, 14, 22 and 23, the sentence in Article 2 referring to the Jewish National Home, the second sentence in Article 7 and all Article 11 except the first sentence were not applicable to Trans-Jordan. The memorandum further stated that His Majesty's Government accepted full responsibility as Mandatory for Trans-Jordan and that the provisions of the Mandate which were not inapplicable would be observed in its administration.

On the 25th April, 1923, the High Commissioner for Palestine declared that His Britannic Majesty will recognize the existence of an independent Government in Trans-Jordan under the rule of His Highness the Amir 'Abdullah, provided that such Government is constitutional and places His Britannic Majesty in a
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* Drayton, Vol. III, page 2607.

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