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Show the mandatory shall be responsible for. maintaining such political, administrative admin-istrative and economic conditions as shall secure the establishment of a Jewish national home and the develop- j ment of self-government institutions. The mandatory assumes the responsibility respon-sibility of seeing that no Palestine territory ter-ritory shall be ceded, leased or otherwise other-wise subjected In ny foreign power; thHt Jewish immigration shall be fa- j 'cilitated: that the civil and religious' rights of all the Inhabitants, irrespec- 1 J tive of race or religion, shall be safe- ; guarded, and that there be no discrimination dis-crimination sgainsr the nationals of any states, members of the league of nations. Responsibility for taxation, commerce com-merce and navigation is vested In the mandatory. It is also provided that a land system be Introduced to promote close Hettlement of the land and lta intensive cultivation. All responsibility in connection with the holy places, religious buildings and their sites in assumed by Great Britain. DRAFT OF MANDATE FOR PALESTINE SUBMITTED Powers of Great Britain Defined De-fined in Document Sent to Supreme Council I,ONlH)N Keb. 4.--The British draft rf the mandate for Valestine, which will be suhmitted to the council of the league of nations at its next meeting to flenevo provides In ill first article that the mandatory nation (Great Itri- i taini ,hali havn nil the powers' in-h in-h rent in the government of a sovereign sover-eign state ;.i i ordin t the text of he draft, printed by the Jewish Chron-W'le Chron-W'le here today. Among ..til uumiandiii:-; features of, tlir twenty-seven articles of the man-, date, are stipulations that the widest measure of self-government for localities, locali-ties, consistent with prevailing condition condi-tion shall b e 'enro 1 1 r a gert, and th a t |