CHAPTER IV. Countries to which slaves are sent, whose institutions recognize the existence of domestic slavery.

CHAPTER V. Institutions intended to insure the execution of the general

act.

Section I.-Of the international maritime office.

LXXIV. International office at LXXVII. Objects.

Zanzibar.

LXXV. Organization.

LXXVI. Expenses.

LXXVIII. Archives; translations.

LXIX. Branch offices.
LXXX. Annual reports.

Section II.-Of the exchange between the Governments of documents and information relative to the slave trade.

LXXXI. Exchange of informa- LXXXIII. Reports from Zanzibar tion. office.

LXXXII. Central exchange office. LXXXIV. Publications.

LXXXV. Expenses.

Section III. Of the protection of liberated slaves.

LXXXVI. Offices for liberating | LXXXVIII. Refuge for women

slaves.

LXXXVII. Registry of releases.

and children.

LXXXIX. Protection of freed

slaves.

CHAPTER VI. Measures to restrict the traffic in spirituous liquors.

XC. Prohibited zone.

XCIII. Excise duty.

XCI. Prohibition of importation XCIV. Prevention of introduction

XCII. Import duty in certain lo- XCV. Information to be commu

XI. CONVENTION CONCERNING THE FORMATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE PUBLICATION OF CUSTOMS TARIFFS.

Signed July 5, 1890; proclaimed December 17, 1890. 26 Stat. at L., p. 1518; in French and English. U. S. Treaties in Force, 1899, p. 733.

The fifteen articles are:

I. International Union formed. II. Object.

III. International Bureau.

IV. Bulletin to be published.
V. Personnel of Bureau.
VI. Language to be used.
VII. Annual reports.
VIII. Expenditures.

IX. Quotas of contracting States.
X. Reduction to certain coun-

tries.

XI. Assignment of quotas. XII. Official publications to be furnished Bureau.

XIII. Regulations to be estab-
lished.

XIV. Accession of other States.
XV. Duration, additions.
Regulations.
Final declarations.

XII. CONVENTION REGULATING THE IMPORTATION OF LIQUOR INTO AFRICA.

Signed June 8, 1899; adhesion of the United States declared February 1, 1901; proclaimed February 6, 1901. 31 Stat. at L., p. 1915; in French with a translation in English.

This convention was concluded by Germany, Belgium, Spain, Congo State, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Norway, and Turkey; all but Turkey ratified it; and Denmark, Persia, Austria and Liberia had acceded to it.

Signed at The Hague July 29, 1899; proclaimed November 1, 1901. Published in leaflet by the State Department in the original French with an English translation.

This declaration was signed by the United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and Bulgaria, to forbid launching projectiles from balloons for a period of five years.

XIV. CONVENTION REGULATING MARITIME WARFARE.

Signed at The Hague July 29, 1899; proclaimed November 1, 1901. Published in leaflet by the State Department in the original French with an English translation.

This convention was signed by the United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Persia, Portngal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

The fourteen articles are:

I. Military hospital ships exempt from capture. II. Also private hospital ships. III. Also hospital ships of neu.trals.

IV. Control of hospital ships by

belligerents.

VII. Protection of religious and hospital staff.

VIII. Protection of captured sick. IX. Disposal of captured wounded.

X. Excluded.

XI. Rules when binding.

V. Marks and flag of hospital XII. Ratifications.

ships.

VI. Other neutral vessels.

XIII. Accession of other powers.

XIV. Convention how denounced.

XV. CONVENTION FOR SETTLING INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES. Signed at The Hague July 29, 1899; proclaimed November 1, 1901. Published in leaflet by the State Department in the original French with an English translation.

This convention was signed by the United States, Germany, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

The sixty-one articles are:

TITLE I. On the maintenance of the general peace.
I. Object of the convention.

TITLE III. On international commissions of inquiry.

IX. Commissions to investigate

questions of fact.

X. Form of convention, func

tions of commissions.

CHAPTER II. On the permanent court of arbitration.

XXV. Seat at The Hague.

XXVI. Court open to non-signatory powers.

XX. Organization.

XXI. Jurisdiction.

XXII. Record office;

docu

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

LVIII. Ratifications.
LIX. Accessions.
LX. Same.

LXI. Convention how denounced.

NOTE ON THE HAGUE TREATIES.

The three last preceding general treaties (Nos. XIII, XIV and XV) were the result of the International Peace Conference, held at The Hague in 1899. This Conference determined that none of the treaties should take effect until a certain number of the signatory powers had ratified it and such ratifications had been deposited at The Hague; this explains the lapse of over two years between their signature and proclamation.

The official account of this Conference is given in: Conference Internationale de la Paix, La Haye 18 Mai-29 Juillet, 1899. Ministère des Affairs Etrangères, La Haye. Inprimerie Nationale, 1899. A full account of the Conference is also given in: The Peace Conference at The Hague, and its Bearings on International Law and Policy, by Frederick W. Holls, D. C. L., a member of the Conference from the United States of America. The Macmillan Company, 1900.

POSTAL CONVENTIONS AND UNIONS.

Postal conventions have not been included in the foregoing APPENDIX. The United States has been a party to many such with separate nations and these will be found in the Statutes at Large. These are

practically superseded by the "Universal Postal Union" (30 Stat. at L., p. 1629; in French with an English translation), proclaimed June 18, 1897, to which nearly every nation in the world is a party, and which in terms abrogates all previous conflicting postal conventions. The nations which are parties to this "Union" can be ascertained by examining the list at its beginning. Parcels-posts conventions are now being negotiated by the United States with foreign powers separately.