APPENDIX I
THE NEW HEBRIDES
Under the Anglo-French Convention of October 20, 1906, forts, penal settlements, and sales to natives of arms and strong drinks are forbidden ; labour and the labour trade are regulated, and jurisdiction will be exercised over natives and non-natives. The dual control which is instituted is several (1 a, 2) and joint (1 ô, 3, and 4), and its powers will be wielded by (1) an English and French High Commissioner or their respective resident deputies who (a) when acting singly will be referred to as the Commissioner, (b) and when acting jointly will be referred to as the joint Commissioners ; (2) an English and a French civil court, each of which will be referred to as the separate court ; (3) a mixed tribunal, composed of two judges, appointed respectively by England and France, of a neutral president, appointed by Spain, of a neutral public prosecutor appointed by the president, and, in criminal cases, of four lay assessors who vote on the question guilty or not guilty ; and (4) the joint naval commission appointed under the convention of 1887 and the declaration of 1888.
Several control will be exercised by the Commissioner over his subjects and quasi-subjects ; thus he will license their labour-trading ships, provide a separate court where they will be sued and, presumably, a criminal court where they will be prosecuted, enforce against them decisions of the separate court and, except in cases relating to land, of the mixed tribunal, and control one half of the police force which is to be raised. ' Subjects ' mean Englishmen (Frenchmen) in the case of the English (French) Commissioner or separate court : and 1 Quasi- subjects ' mean foreigners who elect to submit to English (French) law, or having resided for six months without so electing are put by the joint Commissioners under English (French) law.
The joint Commissioners will control the naval commission, the two halves of the police force (or any part thereof) and the natives, will establish and regulate ports, posts, public works,