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. " e . e 00d97 equal apportionment more than half m>>.y be taken from one river and less than half from the other by either oountry so as to afford a more benefioial use to eaoh." Ibid. 2610. By the convention signed by Franoe and the Netherlands, on September 30, 1915, oonoerning the boundary between French Guiana and Surinam, it was pro- vided that the frontier should be the middle of the Maroni or Marowijne River, and that "No works, whether for purposes of public or private utility, are to be oonstruoted in the frontier seotion of the river, suoh as to be capable of oonstituting an obstaole to navigation or of modifying the nature of the river, exoept by consent of the two Governments". Art. III, 110 Br. and For. st. Paps. 872, 873. Article 18 of the Peace Treaty signed by Finland and the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Jepublio, on October 14, 1920, stipulated. liThe level of the water of the Lake of Ladoga, shall not be altered without previous agreement be- tween Finland' and Russia". 3 League of Nations, Treaty Series, pp. 65, 70. The Treaty of Peaoe between Poland, Russia and the Ukraine, signed at Riga on March 18, 1921, contained the prevision in Annex 5, par. 3, that -- "Without the speoial oonsent of the other Party, it shall not be lawful for either Con_ tracting Party to undertake works on the banks or in the neighborhood of the river, or to set up hydraulio plant ( s) as a result of which the waterways in the territ"ry of the other Contraot- ing Party might be deteriorated. The same rule shall apply to any oonstruotion whioh might. raise the level of the water beyond the frontier of that State." 6 League of Nations, Treaty Series, pp. 123, 169. . The Convention between Finland and Russia, regarding the floating of timber in water-oourses flowing from Finland to Russia or vice versa, signed Ootober 28, 1922, contained the provision in artiole 3 (3) that-- "No works for the adaptation of a floating-way whioh might oause a dangerous rise of the water level or dalllll.ge to a floating-way or to a navigable ohannel, or whioh might injure the fisheries in the territory of the other oontraoting party, Illll.y be undertaken with- out a speoial agreement being oonoluded between the Contraoting States." 19 League of Nations, Treaty Series, pp. 170, 173. At the time the oonvention just referred to was signed, the same parties signed a oonvention oonoerning the me.1 ntenanoe of river ohannels and the -3"