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THE STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FACTS 



Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, and War, Chief 

 Chamberlain, Chief Treasurer, and Chief Admin- 

 istrator of Customs. The unsettled condition of 

 affairs in Morocco rendered it necessary that 

 other countries interested should come to an 

 understanding regarding their respective rights. 

 By the Anglo-French Convention of April, 1904, 

 Great Britain recognizes that it appertains to 

 France to assist in the administrative, economic, 

 financial, and military forms in Morocco, but 

 reserves the rights which by treaties or usage 

 she now enjoys. Both governments agree not 

 to allow fortifications on the Moorish coast 

 between Melilla and the heights dominating 

 the right bank of the Sebu, but this arrangement 

 does not apply to points held by Spain on that 

 coast. Neither government will lend itself to any 

 inequality in taxation or railway rates, and 

 reciprocal engagements with respect to t null- 

 are to last for thirty years with prolongation 

 for periods of five years, failing denunciation 

 a year in advance. Roads, railways, harbor 

 works, etc., are to remain under State control. 

 These arrangements were accepted also by 

 Spain in a Franco-Spanish convention. Ger- 

 many, however, expressed dissatisfaction with 

 this arrangement, and a conference of thirteen 

 delegates, representing Morocco, the European 

 Powers interested, and the United States of 

 America, was held at Algeciras for the settle- 

 ment of disputed matters, from January 16th 

 to April 7, 1906, when an agreement, em- 

 bodied in a General Act, was signed by all 

 the delegates. The Sultan signed the agree- 

 ment on June 18th, and ratifications of the 

 agreement were deposited at Madrid by the 

 other powers, December 31, 1906. Under this 

 agreement there will be a Moorish police force 

 commanded by Moorish Kaids, assisted by 

 French and Spanish instructors and officers, 

 and the force will be inspected by a Swiss In- 

 spector-General, the arrangement to continue 

 for five years. The force will be from 2,000 to 

 2,500 strong, and will be distributed among the 

 eight ports of Morocco. A state bank is to be 

 instituted with a concession for forty years. It 

 will, to begin with, have a capital of from fifteen 

 to twenty million francs ; it will issue bank notes, 

 will act as Treasurer and Paymaster of Morocco, 

 and be the financial agent of the government 

 at home and abroad. It will be required to 

 rehabilitate the currency. Its working will be 

 observed, but not directed, by four censors ap- 

 pointed by the Imperial Bank of Germany, the 

 Bank of England, the Bank of Spain, and the 

 Bank of France. Other provisions deal with the 

 acquisition of land by foreigners, the imposition 

 and collection of taxes, and the authority of the 

 state over the public services and public 

 works. Mulai-Abd-el-Aziz, born February 24. 

 1878, son of Sultan Mulai-Hassan ; succeeded 

 on the death of his father, being proclaimed 

 Sultan in the Sherifian Camp, June 7, 1894; his 

 son, Prince Hassan, was born July, 1899. The 

 present Sultan of Morocco known to his 

 subjects under the title of "Emir-al-Mumenin," 

 or Prince of True Believers is the fifteenth 

 of the dynasty of the Alides, founded by Mulai- 

 Ahmed, and the thirty-sixth lineal descendant 

 of Ali, uncle and son-in-law of the Prophet. 



Nebraska. The first Constitution, adopted 

 in 1867, was succeeded in 1875 by that which as 

 amended in 1886, is still in force. Amendments 

 proposed in either House of the Legislature, agreed 

 to by n two-thirds majority of each House, and 

 approved by a majority of the electors voting on 

 them at a general election, become part of the 

 Constitution. The Legislature consists of a Sen- 

 ate of thirty-three members and a House of Rep- 

 ivM-ntatives of 100 members. The Legislators 

 are elected for two years. Money bills must 

 originate in the House of Representatives. The 

 Senate tries cases of impeachment brought- by 

 the other House, but if the person impeached is 

 a justice of the Supreme Court, the trial takes 

 place before a court of impeachment consisting 

 of the District Courts judges. Legislators must 

 be citizens resident in the district for one year 

 next preceding election. The franchise extends 

 not only to citizens but also to aliens who, thirty 

 days before the election, have declared their 

 intention of becoming citizens. The chief execu- 

 tive officer of the State is the governor, elected 

 for two years. He is commander-in-chief of 

 the militia, and, with advice and consent of the 

 Senate, appoints to various offices, and may 

 grant pardons, etc. He may call special sessions 

 of the Legislature, and he has a veto which may 

 be overridden by a three-fifths vote of each 

 House. Other officials elected for two years, 

 besides those named, are the lieutenant-gov- 

 ernor, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of public 

 instruction, attorney-general, and commissioner 

 of public lands and buildings. The treasurer is 

 not eligible for a third consecutive term. 



Netherlands. The Constitution of 1848, 

 revised in 1887, vests the executive in the sover- 

 eign, and the legislative authority in the sovereign 

 and the states-general, the latter sitting in two 

 chambers: the first, consisting of fifty members,- 

 elected for nine years (one-third retiring every 

 three years) by the provincial states from among 

 the most highly-assessed inhabitants and from 

 among a number of specified officials; the second 

 of 100 members, elected for four years by all male 

 citizens of 25 years or more who pay a direct tax 

 to the state, or are householders or own boats of 

 not less than twenty-four tons, or receive a 

 minimum wage or salary of about $115, or give 

 other evidence of their ability to support them- 

 selves and their families. The government and 

 the second chamber alone possesses the initiative 

 in legislation; the upper house having the right 

 of approval or rejection, but not of amendment. 

 Alterations in constitution are made by ;i two- 

 thirds vote of both houses, followed by a general 

 election, and confirmation by a similar vote of 

 the new states-general. A state council of four- 

 teen members appointed by the sovereign is 

 consulted on all legislative and on most executive 

 matters. 



Nevada. The original Constitution adopt- 

 ed in 1864, is in force as amended in 1880 and 

 1889. Amendments proposed in and approved 

 by the Legislature are submitted to the next 

 Legislature and if then approved are referred to 

 the people for ratification. The Legislature con- 

 sists of a Senate of seventeen members elected 

 for four years, about half their number retiring 

 every two years, and a House of Representatives 



