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Immigration. Hearings, May 5, 1921. Statement concerning certain nationalities in Army and Navy. 1921. 78 p. Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Report to accompany H. R. 4075. April 19, 1921. 23 p. (H. rp. 4.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Report to accompany H. R. 4075 for emergency legislation. April 30, 1921. 10 p. (S. rp. 17.) Immigration Committee.

Admission of aliens in excess of percentage quotas for June. Hearings, June 10, 1921. 49 p. (Serial 4.) (Serial 4.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Report to accompany H. J. Res. 153, on admission of certain aliens in excess of quota for June, 1921. June 13, 1921. 16 p. (H. rp. 169.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Immigration laws, rules of May 1, 1917. 5th edition, Dec., 1920. 116 p. Map. (This publication includes act of May 19, 1921, not included in previous issues.) Paper, 10c. Immigration Bureau.

Indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad. Report to accompany S. 1018. April 30, 1921. 1 p. (S. rp. 10.) Military Affairs Committee.

International Sanitary Conference. Convention between United States and other Powers, signed Paris, Jan. 17, 1912, proclaimed Dec. 11, 1920. 102 p. (Treaty series 649.) State Dept.

Ireland. Struggle of Irish people. Address to Congress of United States adopted at January session of Dail Eireann. 1921. 31 p. (S. doc. 8.)

Japanese immigration. Hearings, July 12-Aug. 31, 1920. 1490 p. il. Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Merchant marine. Report to accompany H. R. 6754, amending sec. 2, 13, and 14, of seamen's act. June 6, 1921. 2 p. (H. rp. 136.) Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee.

Migratory birds. Proclamation further amending regulations proclaimed July 31, 1918. May 17, 1921. 2 p. fo (No. 1597.) State Dept.

Migratory birds treaty act. Extract from charge delivered to grand jury in district court for middle district of Alabama, at Opelika, April 4, 1921. 3 p. (Agricultural Dept. circular 182.) Paper, 5c.

Naturalization. Hearings, May 26, 1921. 25 p. (Serial 5.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Hearings, May 26, 1921. 28 p. (Serial 5.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Syllabus of naturalization law for use of those coöperating with Division of Citizenship Training in assisting aliens desiring citizenship. 1921. 8 p. Naturalization Bureau.

Naturalization of individuals by special acts of Congress. Hearings on

H. J. Res. 79, May 17-June 27, 1921, and paper by Fred K. Nielsen. 55 p. (Serial 6.) Immigration and Naturalization Committee.

Navy yearbook, embracing all acts authorizing construction of ships of new Navy and résumé of annual naval appropriation laws from 1883 to 1920, with tables showing present naval strength, in ships and personnel, and cost of maintaining Navy of United States; also statistics of foreign navies. 1921. 942 p. (S. doc. 302.) Cloth, $1.00.

Norway. Claim of Government of Norway, with accompanying papers, against Government of United States on account of detention of 3 members of crew of Norwegian ship Ingrid. July 22, 1921. 11 p. (S. doc. 53.) State Dept.

Panama. Speech of Henry Cabot Lodge in Senate, Jan. 5, 1904. 1921. 48 p. (S. doc. 37.) Senate.

Passports. Executive order amending provisions of Executive order of Aug. 8, 1918, concerning travel between United States and neighboring countries, and authorizing requirement of crew lists. June 25, 1921. 2 p. fo (No. 3505). State Dept.

Arbitration of Lan

Peru. Protocol between United States and Peru. dreau claim against Peru. Signed May 21, 1921. 8 p. (Treaty series 653.) State Dept.

Petroleum. Restrictions on American petroleum prospectors in certain foreign countries. Report furnishing information requested by resolution supplementary to that embodied in report submitted May 14, 1920. May 16, 1921. 31 p. (S. doc. 11.) State Dept.

Report in response to resolution on oil prospecting in foreign countries, furnishing information supplementary to reports submitted May 14, 1920, and April 6, 1921. June 13, 1921. 11 p. (S. doc. 39.) State Dept.

Poland and Danzig. Proclamation suspending tonnage dues. May 6, 1921. 1 p. f° (No. 1596). State Dept.

Saito, Tatsuji. Report to accompany S. 1078, to pay indemnity to family of. July 16, 1921. 2 p. (H. rp. 269.) Foreign Affairs Committee. Tariff. Report to accompany H. R. 7456 on general tariff revision. July 6, 1921. 55 p. (H. rp. 248.) Ways and Means Committee.

Trading with the enemy act, as amended. 1921. 28 p. House of Representatives.

Treaties. Article on respective powers of Senate and of the President in negotiation of. By William W. Dewhurst. 1921. 11 p. (S. doc. 9.) Peace treaties, various treaties and agreements between Allied and Associated Powers and Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Turkey, together with certain other agreements signed by Peace Conference at Paris and St. Germain-en-Laye. 1921. 448 p. (S. doc. 7.)

Power of President to negotiate treaties and methods of rec

ognizing a new state. 1921. Reprint of various public documents and reports. 56 p. (S. doc. 16.)

Venezuela. Informe presentado al consejo central ejecutivo de la Alta Comisión Interamericana sobre la visita que el consultor jurídico del mismo hizo a los Estados Unidos de Venezuela con el objeto de conferenciar sobre los trabajos de la misma alta comisión con el Ministro de Hacienda y la sección Venezolana de este organismo. 1921. 30 p. Inter-American High Commission.

Treaty for advancement of peace between United States and. Signed March 21, 1914, proclaimed March 21, 1921. 7 p. (Treaty series 652.) State Dept.

GEORGE A. FINCH.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS INVOLVING QUESTIONS OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

THE HILDING AND OTHER VESSELS (PART CARGOES EX).1

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Dec. 17, 1920.

International Law-Prize-Doctrine of "infection"-Declaration of Paris-Declaration of London-Orders in Council of 1914 and 1916.

By the law of Prize, transfers of the ownership of movables afloat from an enemy transferor to a neutral transferee, when unaccompanied by actual delivery of the goods, are not recognized. Goods which, though not condemnable in themselves, belong, when captured, to the same owner as other cargo in the same vessel liable to condemnation as contraband, are also condemnable as if they too were contraband.

These were four appeals from judgments of Presidents of the Prize Court-one delivered by Sir Samuel Evans and three by Lord Sterndalerelating to the doctrine of "infection."

Lord Sumner, in delivering their Lordships' judgment, said: These appeals are brought to test the validity of the doctrine of "infection" and its applicability to the conditions and forms of overseas commerce at the present time, and their Lordships think it right to deal with them accordingly, although, as will appear, they, or at any rate some of them, might have been disposed of on narrower grounds. They relate to four ships, The Hilding, The Parana, The Rena, and The Kronprinsessan Margareta, and to five voyages, there being two of the ship last named.

The claimants are neutrals, who acquired the titles on which they rely in the ordinary way of trade. The goods condemned were coffee and hog products, which are in themselves conditional contraband, and they were carried in neutral bottoms under the protection of neutral flags and were shipped from and deliverable at ports in neutral countries. None of them were shown to have had an ulterior enemy destination, nor was it shown that any of the claimants themselves were privy to the ulterior destination of any of the cargo carried in the same vessels, but in each case there was other cargo, which was in itself conditional contraband and was found to have an ulterior enemy destination, and it is by this that the goods in question have been held to be infected.

The case of The Hilding is mainly one of fact, and will be stated later. In the case of The Parana, neutral shippers, acting through agents, shipped

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sundry parcels of coffee belonging to them, of which one had an ulterior enemy destination, as the President found and as the appellants now accept, and others were consigned to the appellants, Messrs. Lundgren and Rollven, in pursuance of contracts of sale and purchase made before the date of the bills of lading. The terms of the sale were c. and f. Stockholm, reimbursement by confirmed sight credit on a Swedish bank. The draft in respect of one shipment, that made at Santos, was met by the bank in Sweden before seizure; the draft drawn in respect of the other shipment, that made at Rio, was met after seizure. Both dates were long after the ship sailed from Santos and Rio respectively.

In the case of The Rena, Diebold and Co., a German firm trading in Brazil, had shipped sundry parcels of coffee, of which one, nominally consigned to Swedish consignees, but claimed on behalf of a Dutch firm, the Commanditaire Vennootschap Heybroek and Co., as purchasers, was held by the President to have belonged to Diebold and Co. at the time of the seizure and to have had an ulterior enemy destination at that time given by Heybroek and Co., and was accordingly condemned. The present appellants, while not admitting these facts, to which indeed they appear not to have been privy, were not in a position to contest the President's findings and condemnation. This may have been their misfortune, but it cannot affect the case. They are a firm of Mattsson Peterzens and Co., consignees named in the bill of lading of another portion of the coffee pursuant to a contract of purchase and sale dated before the shipment, the terms of which were cost and freight Gothenburg, payment at sight on a Swedish bank, who confirmed the credit by telegrams to Santos. The Swedish bank met this draft before the seizure but after the ship had sailed. This parcel of coffee was not shown to have had any ulterior enemy destination; on the contrary, it was admitted to have been in itself the subject of a legitimate transaction.

In the case of the second voyage of The Kronprinsessan Margareta, the claimants and appellants are Messrs. Bergman and Bergstrand. Coffee was shipped by Diebold and Co., under a bill of lading dated May 8, 1916, consigned to Messrs. Dahlen and Wahlstedt. This parcel had in fact an ulterior enemy destination and the President condemned it as contraband, but it is contended that it was not liable to condemnation, and therefore not capable of infecting other godos in the same ship, as the Order in Council of October 29, 1914, respecting immunity from condemnation of conditional contraband, consigned to a named consignee at a neutral port of discharge, was still in force and applied to it. There is, therefore, here a question whether this immunity had or had not been revoked before June 15, 1916, the date of seizure. The appellants, Messrs. Bergman and Bergstrand, bought other parcels of coffee from Diebold and Co., under contracts effected before shipment, and were the consignees named in the bill of lading. Their coffee was only destined for Sweden. The terms of

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