25"2 FEDERAL POUTY
application from one of the parties, by the Supreme Court
of the German Reich unless another Court of the Reich is
competent
The President of the Reich carries out the decision of
the Supreme Court.
SECTION VI,
ADMINISTRATION OF THE REICH,
ARTICLE 78.—The conduct oŁ foreign affairs is the
exclusive concern of the Reich.
In affairs regulated by State legislation, tho States may
conclude agreement with foreign States. Those agreements
require the consent of the Reich.
Conventions with foreign States as to tho alteration of
the frontiers oŁ the Reich are concluded by the Reich, with
the consent of the State concerned. Alterations in tho
frontier may be effected only by a law of the Reich, excopt
in the case of a simple rectification oŁ the borders of
uninhabited portions of a district.
In order to guarantee representation oŁ the interests of
individual States arising from their special economic rela-
tions with foreign States or their proximity thereto, the
Reich undertakes the requisite arrangements and measures
in agreement with the State concerned.
ARTICLE 79.—The defence of the Reich is a matter for
action by the Reich. The military organisation of the
German people is regulated uniformly by means of a law of
the Reich, regard being had to the individual conditions of
each State,
ABTICLE 80.—-Colonial affairs are exclusively tho busi-
ness of the Reich.
ARTICLE 81.—All German merchant shipping consti-
tutes a united commercial fleet.
ABTIOM 82.—Germany forms one customs and com*
raereial district, enclosed by oae common customs frontier.