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Contracting Parties Agree
Not to Exercise Re.
placement Rights.
WILL SCRAP SHIPS
"Aircraft Carrier" Defin-
ed, and Armament Limit.
ed to 6.l-Caliber Guns.

8. Vessels which cause the total ton
age in any category to exceed the fig-
ures given in the foregoing table shall
be disposed Of gradually during the
period ending on December 81, 1885.
3. The maximum number Of cruisers
Of subcategories (a) shall be IS follows
For the United States, 10; for the
United Kingdom. Is; for Japan, II.
4. In the destroyer category not more
than Is per cent of the allowed total
tonnage shall be employed in vessels OF
over 1900 tons 0,524 metric tons)
completed or under construction on
April /, 1880, in excess of this per-
centage, may be retained, but no other
deStroyers exceeding $500 tons 1924
metric tons) standard displacement
shall be constructed or acquired until a
reduction to such 16 per cent has been
effected.
S. Not more than as per cent Of the
allowed total tonnage in the cruiser
category may be fitted with landing
on platform or deck for aircraft.
6. 1t is understood that the subma-
rineS referred to in paragraphs and 8
Of Article XII will be counted as part
of the total submarine tonnage Of the
high contracting parties concerned.
z. The tonnage Of any vessels retained
under Article XIII or disposed of in
accordance with annex 2 to part OF
the present treaty shall not be in
cluded in the tonnage subject to limita-
ton.
ARTICLE XVII.
A transfer not exceeding 10 per cent
Of the allowed total tonnage of the
category or subcategory into which the
transfer Is to be made shall be permitted
between cruiser Of subcategory (b) and
deStroyerS.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The United States contemplates the
subcategory (a) Of an aggregate ton
mage of 10000 tons (152 400 metric
tons). For each of the remaining three
cruisers of subcategory (a) which it is
entitled to construct, the United States
may elect to substitute 1876 tons u.s.
400 metric tonS) of cruisers Of sub
category (b). Subject to this option the
sixteenth unit will not be laid down
before 1888 and will not be completed
before 1896; the seventeenth will not
be laid down before 1884 and will not
will not be laid down before 1885 and
will not be completed before 1898.
ARTICLE XIX.
Except as provided in article Xxx, the
tonnage laid down In any category sub
ject to limitation in accordance with
Article XVI shall not exceed the
amount necessary to reach the maxi
mum allowed tonnage of the category
or to replace vessels that become lover
age" before December 81, 1896.
Nevertheless replacement tonnage
may be laid down for cruisers and sub
marine that become "over age" in 1887
1898 and 1899, and for destroyers thai
become lover age" in 1887 and 1888.
ARTICLE Xxx.
Notwithstanding the rules for re-
placement contained in annex l to
part 2:
ca The Frobisher and Efingham
UNITED Kingdom) may be disposed OF
during the year 1886. Apart from the
cruisers now under construction, the
total replacement tonnage of cruisers
to be completed, in the case of the
United Kingdom, prior to December
81, 1885, shall not exceed 81 900 tons
(92456 metric tons).
(b) Japan may replace the Tama by
new construction to be completed dur
ing the year 1896.
(c) In addition to replacing destroy
ers becoming lover age" before Deem
Der 81, 1896, Japan may lay down, in
each of the years 1885 and 1885, not
more than $500 tons 1928 metric
tons) to replace part of the vessels
that become lover age" in 1888 and
1899.
I'D Japan may anticipate replace
ment during the term OF the present
treaty by laying down not more than
1920 tons U9,507 metric tons) of SUBJ
marine tonnage, of which not more
than 10000 tons 02,192 metric tons)
shall be completed by December, 81,
1886.
ARTICLE XXI.
II, during the term of the present
treaty. the requirements of the national
security of any high contracting party
in respect of vessels of war limited by
part 2 OF the present treaty are in the
opinion of that party materially affected
by new construction of any power other
than those who have joined in part
of this treaty, that high contracting
party will notify the other parties to
part as to the increase required to be
made in its own tonnages within one
or more of the categories of such YES
sells of war, specifying particularly the
proposed increases and the reasons
therefore, and shall be entitled to make
such increase. Thereupon the other
parties to part OF this treaty shall
be entitled to make q proportionate in
crease in the category or categories
specified; and the said other parties
shall promptly advise with each other
through diplomatic channels as to the
situation thus presented.
PART 4,
ARTICLE xxi.
The following are accepted as estab-
lished rules of international law:
N In thair actinta NTH ronora Il,