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such State becomes a party to the treaty by deposit of its instrument
of ratifieation".
  III.-MODIFIED ARTICLES AND NEW PROPOsALS REFERRED TO THE
                  COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS
                            ARTICLE 16
U. S. Proposal part b.
  Italy and Yugoslavia undertake to give to the Free Territory of
Trieste the guarantees set out in Annex 9.
                              ANNEX 3
  Text of paragraph 1, subparagraph 1 as modified:
  1. The Successor State shall receive without payment, Italian State
and parastatal property within territory ceded to it under the present
treaty, as well as all relevant archives of an administrative character
or historical value concerning the territory in question.
                             ANNEX 13
                           (U. S. proposal)
Property and debt provisions relating to the Free Territory of Trieste
  1. The Free Territory of Trieste shall receive, without payment to
Italy, all property within the Free Territory owned by the Italian
State or by Italian parastatal organizations and all rights and inter-
ests of the Italian State or of Italian parastatal organizations relating
to property within the Free Territory. The Free Territory of Trieste
shall also receive all relevant archives concerning the Free Territory
and the Free Port.
  The following are considered as State parastatal property for the
purposes of this Annex: movable and immovable property of the Ital-
ian State, of local authorities and of public institutions and publicly
owned companies and associations, as well as movable and immovable
property formerly belonging to the Fascist Party or its auxiliary
organizations.
  2. The Free Territory of Trieste shall not be required to assume
pecuniary obligations of the Italian State or its agencies, except to
the extent that specific Italian State or parastatal properties trans-
ferred to the Free Territory, or the revenues therefrom, have been
hypothecated as security for such obligations. Any such hypothe-
cated properties or revenues shall continue to be security for the obli-
gations assumed by the Free Territory of Trieste.
  3. Special arrangements shall be concluded between Italy and the
Free Territory of Trieste to govern the conditions under which the
obligations of Italian public or private social insurance organizations
towards the inhabitants of the Free Territory of Trieste and a pro-



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