PUBLIC DOCUMENTS RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW

UNITED STATES

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Canada, System of uniform and common international regulations for the protection and preservation of food fishes in the international boundary waters of the United States and, prepared by the International Fisheries Commission. Feb. 2, 1910. 19 p. Dept. of State. (H. R. Doc. 638.)

Dept. of State, Statement of the Secretary of State on expenditures in the. 1910. 438 p. H. of R. Comm. on Expenditures in the Dept. of State.

Immigration, Annual report of the Commissioner-General of, 1909. 214 p., 2 pl. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Paper, 30c.. Immigration of Criminal Aliens. II. of R. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. (H. R. rp. 496, pt. 1, 2.) (H. R. rp. 404, pt. 1, 2.) (H. R. rp. 428.)

Immigration laws and regulations of July 1, 1907. 9th edition. Feb. 15, 1910. 87 p. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Paper, 10c.

Immigration and naturalization, Bureau of. Annual report of the chief of division of information, 1909. 24 p.

Immigration and naturalization. Hearings. 1910. 126 p. II. of R. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.

International institute of agriculture at Rome. Statement of David. Lubin. 1910. 9 p. H. of R. Comm. on Foreign Affairs.

Liberia, Letter submitting the report of the commission which visited, to investigate the interests of the United States and its citizens in the Republic of Liberia. Mar. 25, 1910. 37 p. Dept. of State. (S. Doc. 457.) Paper, 5c.

Naturalization, Annual report of the chief of division of, 1909. 28 p. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.

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Naturalization. Convention between the United States and Brazil. Signed at Rio de Janeiro, April 27, 1908; proclaimed April 2, 1910. 6 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 547.)

Naturalization. Convention between the United States and Honduras. Signed at Tegucigalpa, June 23, 1908; proclaimed June 8, 1909. 6 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 525.)

Naturalization. Convention between the United States and Peru. Signed at Lima, Oct. 15, 1907; proclaimed Sept. 2, 1909. 6 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 532.)

Naturalization. Convention between the United States and Uruguay. Signed at Montevideo, Aug. 10, 1908; proclaimed June 19, 1909. 6 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 527.)

Newfoundland fisheries. Agreement effected by exchange of notes between the United States and Great Britain. Signed at London, July 22 -September 8, 1909. 7 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 533.)

Opium commission, Report on the International, and on the opium problem as seen within the United States and its possessions; prepared by Hamilton Wright on behalf of the American delegates to the said commission, held at Shanghai, Feb. 1909. Feb. 21, 1910. 83 p. Dept. of State. (S. Doc. 377.) Paper, 5c.

Orinoco corporation, Protocol and exchange of notes between the United States and Venezuela, settlement of the claim of the. Signed at Caracas, Sept. 9, 1909. 11 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 533.) Pacific settlement of international disputes, Convention between the United States and other powers for the. Signed at The Hague, Oct. 18, 1907; proclaimed Feb. 28, 1910. 50 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 536.)

Patents. Convention between the United States and Germany. Signed at Washington, Feb. 23, 1909; proclaimed Aug. 1, 1909. 5 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 531.)

Red Cross. Hearings, April 21, 1910. Foreign Affairs.

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H. of R. Comm. on

Riparian and water rights of the Federal Government and the various. States, Brief and memorandum relating to; presented by Mr. Nelson. Feb. 7, 1910. 14 p. Senate. (S. Doc. 351.) Paper, 5c.

Russia, Agreement between the United States and, regulating the position of corporations and other commercial associations. Signed at St. Petersburg, June 12/25, 1904; proclaimed June 15, 1909. 4 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 526.)

Trade in white women, Further response to a resolution requesting information concerning repression of. Jan. 31, 1910. 34 p. (S. Doc. 214, pt. 2.) Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.

Venezuela, Protocol between the United States and. Settlement of the claim of the United States and Venezuela Company. Signed at Caracas, Aug. 21, 1909. 7 p. Dept. of State. (Treaty series 531.)

CANADA

Agriculture and colonization, Report of the select standing committee. on. 1909-10. Ottawa, vii, 131 p. House of Commons. (App. No. 1 — 1910.)

Canada and France, Convention and supplementary convention regulating the commercial relations between. Signed at Paris, Sept. 19, 1907 - Jan. 23, 1909. Foreign Office. (Cd. 5021.) 21d.

Ethiopia, Exchange of notes between the United Kingdom and, with regard to import duties in Ethiopia. 13 April/12 May, 1909. Foreign Office. (Cd. 5020.) d.

Medicine, International congress of, 1909. Report of the principal delegate of H. M. Government to the Congress held at Budapest. Foreign Office. (Cd. 5047.) d.

Press telegrams, Declaration between the United Kingdom and France, abrogating the agreement of 8th Nov., 1899, respecting the exchange of. Signed at Paris, 11th Jan. 1910. Foreign Office. (Cd. 4970.) d.

Public health, Accession of Bulgaria to the international agreement of 9th Dec. 1907, respecting the creation of an International office of. 29th Nov. 1909. Foreign Office. (Cd. 4969.) d.

Sugar commission, Report of the British delegate to the International, July, 1909. Foreign Office. (Cd. 5022.) 1d.

March, 1910. Foreign Office. (Cd. 5025.) 1d.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Mensaje que el cuidadano Presidente de la republica presenta al Congreso nacional en su 2a legislatura ordinaria. Santo Domingo, 1910. 20 p.

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ECUADOR

Ecuador-Peru. Documentos relativos al litigo de fronteras de ambos paises sometido ae fallo arbitral de S. M. Alfonso XIII Rey de España. Quito, 1910. 100 p., 11. Ministerio de relaciones exteriores.

Perú. Coleccion de documentos sobre limites Ecuatoriano Peruanos por el R. P. Fr. Enrique Vacas Galindo. Quito, 1902-3. 3 vols. Ministerio de relaciones exteriores.

Peru, Cuestion de limites con el. Quito, 1910. iv, 100 p., 1 l. Minis. terio de relaciones exteriores.

Perú. Exposición ante S. M. C. Don Alfonso XIII en la demanda de la república del Ecuador contra la del Perú sobre límites territoriales por Honorato Vázquez. Madrid, 1906. viii, 525 p., 1 l., map. Minis-· terio de relaciones exteriores.

Perú, Litigio de limites entre el Ecuador y el. El epilogo Peruano. Memorándum por Honorato Vázquez. Madrid, 1907. vi., 193 p. Ministerio de relaciones exteriores.

FRANCE

Deuxième conférence de la paix, Projets de loi portant approbation de douze conventions signées à la Haye, le 18 octobre 1907, à l'issue de la. Paris, 1909. Chambre des députés. (nos. 2861à 2872.)

ITALY

Emigrazione colonie. Raccolta di rapporti dei RR. agenti diplomatici e consolari. vol. 3, America, pte 3. Roma, 1909. 475 p. Ministero degli affari esteri. Price, 2 lire. Libreria Bosca, Rome.

SALVADOR

Mensaje del Señor Presidente constitucional de la Republica de El Salvador, General Fernando Figueroa, a la honorable Asamblea nacional de 1910. 20 p.

VENEZUELA.

El Libro amarills de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela presentado al Congreso nacional en sus sesiones de 1910 por el Ministro de relaciones exteriores. Caracas. xxxix, 628 p. Ministerio de relaciones exteriores. Mensaje que el General Juan Vincente Gomez Presidente provisional de la republica presenta al Congreso nacional en 1910. Caracas.

BUREAU INTERNATIONAL PERMANENT DE LA PAIX

53 p.

Sociétés de la paix, Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée générale des délégues des. Bruxelles 1909. 48 p.

PHILIP DE WITT PHAIR.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS INVOLVING QUESTIONS OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GIUSEPPE GHIO

(District Court of Appeal of California, Third District)

March 16, 1909

HART, J. On the 27th day of April, 1908, Giuseppe Ghio died, intestate, in the county of San Joaquin, this state, leaving an estate consisting of personal property of the value of about $1,061.85. The deceased, at the time of his death, was a resident of San Joaquin county, but a citizen of Italy. His surviving heirs are a widow and three minor children who were, at the time of his death and when the proceeding here involved was heard in the court below, residents of Italy.

Both the public administrator of San Joaquin county and Salvatore L. Rocca, the consul-general of the kingdom of Italy, in and for the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and the territory of Alaska, petitioned for letters of administration of the estate of said deceased.

The court, upon the hearing of the matter of the petitions of the contesting petitioners, made an order granting letters of administration to George F. Thompson, the said public administrator, and, necessarily, refusing to grant letters to said Salvatore L. Rocca, consul-general, etc. This appeal is prosecuted from said order.

The ultimate question submitted here for determination is one of more than ordinary magnitude. It involves the important proposition of whether foreign consular officers stationed and representing their governments in the United States are entitled, under and by virtue of the rights. conferred upon them by the provisions and stipulations of the treaties subsisting between this and the governments they so represent, to supersede the public administrators in the matter of the administration of the estates of aliens (citizens of the countries they represent) denizened in this country, dying here intestate and leaving estates within the jurisdiction of our local courts.