Subject.

Signed.

Proclaimed.

Arbitration of Pecuniary Claims ..... Jan. 30, 1902 Mar. 24, 1905 International Sanitary Convention

...

Dec. 3, 1903. May 18, 1907

(Paris)
Repression of Trade in White Women. May 18,
Exemption of Hospital Ships from
Payment of Dues ...

International Institute of

1904 June 15, 1908

Dec. 21,

1904 May 21, 1907

Agriculture. June 7, 1905. Jan. 29, 1908

New Agreement Between China and
Certain Powers for the Whang-pu

Sept. 27, 1905

(Central and South America) ......Oct. 14, 1905 Mar. 1, 1909 General Act of the International Con

ference at Algeciras

April 7, 1906. Jan. 22, 1907

International Red Cross Convention for
the Amelioration of the Condition of
Wounded of the Armies in the Field July 6, 1906. Aug. 3, 1907
Importation of Spirituous Liquors into

Africa

Unification of the Pharmacopoeial Formulas for Potent Drugs

Nov. 3, 1906. Dec. 2, 1907

Nov. 29, 1906

International Office of Public Health.. Dec. 9, 1907. Nov. 17, 1908 Second Hague Peace Conference Con

ventions, 1907:

I. Pacific Settlement of Inter-
national Disputes

II. The Limitation of the Em-
ployment of Force for the
Recovery of Contract

Debts

III. Opening of Hostilities
IV. The Laws and Customs of
War on Land ...

V. Rights and Duties of Neu-
trals in Land War

VIII. The Laying of Automatic

Submarine Contact Mines. Oct. 18, 1907 Feb. 28, 1910 IX. Bombardment by Naval

Forces in Time of War...Oct. 18, 1907 Feb. 28, 1910

X. The Adaption of the Prin

ciples of the Geneva Con

vention to Naval War ...Oct. 18,

ond Peace Conference Oct. 18, 1907 Feb. 28, 1910

General Treaty of Peace and Amity Dec. 20, 1907
Additional Treaty of Peace and

Central American Conferences... Dec. 20, 1907

Convention on Communications

Literary and Artistic Copyrights.. Aug. 11, 1910

APPENDIX II-DOCUMENTARY

I

PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE

The definitive treaty of peace with Great Britain, of 1783, ran in its most essential parts as follows:

In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity.

It having pleased the divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and Most Potent Prince George the third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Arch-Treasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire &ca., and of the United States of America to forget all past Misunderstandings and Differences that have unhappily interrupted the good Correspondence and Friendship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory Intercourse between the two Countries upon the Ground of reciprocal Advantages and mutual Convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace & harmony; . . . have constituted & appointed . . . Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and signing the present Definitive Treaty; who after having reciprocally communicated their respective full Powers, have agreed upon and confirmed the following Articles:

ARTICLE 1st

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His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the sd United States, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island & Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia, to be free sovereign & Independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself his Heirs and Successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government Propriety & Territorial Rights of the same & every Part thereof.

ARTICLE 4th

It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.

ARTICLE 5th

It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the Legislatures of the respective States to provide for the Restitution of all Estates, Rights and Properties which have been confiscated belonging to real British Subjects; and also of the Estates Rights and Properties of Persons resident in Districts in the Possession of his Majesty's Arms, and who have not borne Arms against the said United States. And that Persons of any other Description shall have free Liberty to go to any Part or Parts of any of the thirteen United States and therein to remain twelve Months unmolested in their Endeavours to obtain the Restitution of such of their Estates Rights & Properties as may have been confiscated. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States, a Reconsideration and Revision of all Acts or Laws regarding the Premises, so as to render the said Laws or Acts perfectly consistent, not only with Justice and Equity, but with that Spirit of Conciliation, which, on the Return of the Blessings of Peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States, that the Estates, Rights and Properties of such last mentioned Persons shall be restored to them, they refunding to any Persons who may be now in Possession, the bonâ fide Price (where any has been given) which such Persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said Lands, Rights or Properties, since the Confiscation.

And it is agreed that all Persons who have any Interest in confiscated Lands, either by Debts, Marriage Settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful Impediment in the Prosecution of their just Rights.

ARTICLE 6th

That there shall be no future Confiscations made nor any Prosecutions commenc'd against any Person or Persons for or by Reason of the Part, which he or they may have taken in the present War, and that no Person shall on that Account suffer any future Loss or Damage, either in his Person Liberty or Property; and that those who may be in Confinement on such Charges at the Time of the Ratification of the Treaty in America shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.

ARTICLE 7th

There shall be a firm and perpetual Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the said States and between the Subjects of the one, and the Citizens of the other, wherefore all Hostilities both by Sea and

Land shall from henceforth cease: All Prisoners on both Sides shall be set at Liberty, and his Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any Destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other Property of the American Inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies, Garrisons & Fleets from the said United States, and from every Port, Place and Harbour within the same; leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that may be therein: And shall also order & cause all Archives, Records, Deeds & Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens, which in the Course of the War may have fallen into the Hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and deliver'd to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.

II

NEUTRALITY

The foundation of the American system of neutrality was laid in this proclamation of Washington's on April 22, 1793:

WHEREAS it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other; and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent Powers:

I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those Powers respectively; and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition.

And I do hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding, or abetting hostilities against any of the said Powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations, will not receive the protection of the United States, against such punishment or forfeiture; and further, that I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the Powers at war, or any of them.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of