company them, shall be immediately sent by the British Government, through the diplomatic channel, to the Signatory Powers. The said Government shall, in the cases contemplated in the preceding paragraph, inform them at the same time of the date on which it received the notification.

Art. 68. The present Declaration shall take effect, in the case of the Powers which were parties to the first deposit of ratifications, sixty days after the date of the Protocol recording such deposit, and, in the case of the Powers which shall ratify subsequently, sixty days after the notification of their ratification shall have been received by the British Government.

Art. 69. If it happens that one of the Signatory Powers wishes to denounce the present Declaration, such denunciation can only be made to take effect at the end of a period of twelve years, beginning sixty days after the first deposit of ratifications, and, after that time, at the end of successive periods of six years, of which the first will begin at the end of the period of twelve years.

Such denunciation must be notified in writing, at least one year in advance, to the British Government, which shall inform all the other Powers.

It will only operate in respect of the Power which shall have made the notification.

Art. 70. The Powers represented at the London Naval Conference attach particular value to the general recognition of the rules which they have adopted and express the hope that the Powers which were not represented will adhere to the present Declaration. They request the British Government to invite them to do so.

A Power which desires to adhere notifies its intention in writing to the British Government, in transmitting the act of adhesion, which will be deposited in the archives of the said Government.

The said Government shall forthwith transmit to all the other Powers a duly certified copy of the notification, as also of the act of adhesion, stating the date on which it received the notification. The adhesion takes effect sixty days after such date.

The position of the adhering Powers shall be in all matters concerning this Declaration similar to the position of the Signatory Powers.

Art. 71. The present Declaration, which shall bear the date of the 26th February, 1909, may be signed in London until the 30th June, 1909, by the Plenipotentiaries of the Powers represented at the Naval Conference.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Declaration, and have thereto affixed their seals.

Done at London, the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nine, in a single original, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the British Government, and of which duly certified copies shall be sent through the diplomatic channel to the Powers represented at the Naval Conference.

TABLE OF CASES CITED

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Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., Lucy, The, 433.

Hudson County Water Co. v. Mc- Mortensen v. Peters, 116.

P

Panama, The, 290, 312.

[The figures refer to pages.]

State of Kansas v. State of Colo

rado, 106.

Stephen Hart, The, 463.

Paquete Habana, The, 5, 6, 10, Strother v. Lucas, 84.

13, 17, 288.

Parlement Belge, The, 76, 150.

Pedro, The, 14, 243, 249, 477.

Pelican, The, 27.

Peterhoff, The, 434, 441, 463.

Prize Cases, The, 249, 272, 440,

446.

Protector, The, 249, 374, 379.

R

Reg. v. Cunningham, 101.
Reg. v. Jameson, 391.
Reg. v. Keyn, 85, 86.

Republic of Peru v. Dreyfus, 27.
Republic of Peru V. Peruvian
Guano Co., 27.

Respublica v. De Longchamps, 16.
Ringende Jacob, The, 433.

S

Salvador, The, 44.

Santa Cruz, The, 10.

Symons v. Baker, 150.

T

Talbot v. Seeman, 16.
Taylor v. Barchlay, 27.
Thirty Hogsheads of Sugar v.
Boyle, 5, 12, 16, 330.
Thompson, The, 404.

Three Friends, The, 39, 40, 44,
243.

Tucker v. Alexandroff, 200, 201.
Two Friends, The, 300.

U

Underhill v. Hernandez, 44, 56, 243.

U. S. v. The Active, 16.

U. S. v. Alexander, 477.

U. S. v. Arjona, 16.

U. S. v. De la Maza Arredondo, 5, 84.

U. S. v. De Repentigny, 83.

Santissima Trinidad, The, 92, 118, U. S. v. Dewey, 300, 310, 477.

303, 431.

Santo Domingo, The, 310.

Scholefield v. Eichelberger, 270.
Scotia, The, 10, 16.

U. S. v. Diekelman, 332.

U. S. v. Dunnington, 381.

U. S. v. Huckabee, 83, 371.
U. S. v. Lynde, 27.

Screw Collier Co. v. Schurmans, U. S. v. McRae, 50. 98.

Sea Lion, The, 365.

Semmes v. City Fire Ins. Co., 378.
Semmes v. Hartford Ins. Co., 270.
Siffkin v. Glover, 365.

Siren, The, v. U. S., 477.

U. S. v. Moreno, 370.

U. S. v. One Hundred Barrels of
Cement, 40.

U. S. v. Palmer, 27.

U. S. v. Percheman, 52, 84, 371.
U. S. v. Rauscher, 146.

Small's Adm'r v. Lumpkin's Ex'x, U. S. v. Rice, 331.
271.

U. S. v. Rodgers, 104, 117.

Society for Propagation of Gos- U. S. v. Rogers, 115.

pel v. New Haven, 378. Springbok, The, 462. Staadt Embden, The, 434. Star, The, 478.

U. S. v. Smith, 50.
U. S. v. Taylor, 310.
U. S. v. Wright, 363.
U. S. v. Yorba, 27.