Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1919 — Signing Treaties. [ARTICLE]

Signing Treaties.

Signatures on treaties have become easy to arrange now that the system of alphabetical order is followed, but formerly the; fight for Jirbcedence a cause of grievous difficulty. "The order in which .appeared op .treaties used to be determined by the status of the realms concerned. But this device involved such interminable disputes that other systems were suggested, and as long ago as 1718, at the signature of the quadruple alliance, each Power signed first the copy which was to remain in its possession. At Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, the contracting parties each signed one copy for each of the others. Finally the present plan <?f .alphabetical order (according to the French alphabet) was adopted.