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==Borders==
{{History of Jordan}}▼
The borders between the territory of Transjordan and [[Mandatory Palestine]] were defined for the first time in the memorandum, as follows:
<blockquote>all territory lying to the east of a line drawn from a point two miles west of the town of Akaba on the Gulf of that name up the centre of the Wady Araba, Dead Sea and River Jordan to its junction with the River Yarmuk: thence up the centre of that river to the Syrian frontier.<blockquote/>
==Exclusions and application of the Mandate==
▲{{History of Jordan}}
The memorandum listed as exclusions articles 4, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23, and parts of the Preamble and Articles 2, 7 and 11, including the articles of the Mandate concerning a Jewish national home. It concluded with:<ref name=LoN>''League of Nations Official Journal'', Nov. 1922, pp. 1390–1391.</ref>
<blockquote>In the application of the Mandate to Transjordan, the action which, in Palestine, is taken by the Administration of the latter country will be taken by the Administration of Transjordan under the general supervision of the Mandatory. His Majesty's Government accept full responsibility as Mandatory for Transjordan, and undertake that such provision as may be made for the administration of that territory in accordance with Article 25 of the Mandate shall be in no way inconsistent with those provisions of the Mandate which are not by this resolution declared inapplicable.<blockquote/>
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