The United States has treaties, conventions and agreements on the following subjects with the countries mentioned: Peace, amity, com merce and navigation.— Algiers (peace and amity), Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary (commercial), Belgium (commercial), Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil, Central America, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (commercial), Corca, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (commercial), Ethiopia (com mercial), France, German Empire (commer cial), Great Britain, Greece (commercial), Guatemala, HanOver Hanseatic Republics, Hawaiian Islands, Hayti, Honduras, Italy (commercial), Japan, Lew Chew, Liberia (com mercial), Madagascar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (commercial), Mexico, Morocco (peace, friend ship and protection), Muscat, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Oldenburg (commercial), Orange Free State, Ottoman Empire (commercial), Paraguay, Persia, Peru-Bolivia, Peru, Portugal (commercial), Prussia, Russia (commercial), Salvador, Samoan Islands (commercial), Sar dinia (commercial), Serbia (commercial), Siam, Spain, Sweden, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Tonga, Tripoli (peace and friend ship), Tunis, Two Sicilies, Venezuela.
Trade-marks.—Austria-Hungarv, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark (also industrial designs and models), France, German Empire (also pat ents), Great Britain, Guatemala (also patents), Italy, Japan (also patents and designs), Lux emburg, Netherlands, Rumania, Russia, Spain. Switzerland.
Copyright.—Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, German Empire, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Swit zerland.
Arbitration.—Austria-Hungary, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nor way, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Spam, Sweden, Switzerland.
Reciprocity.— Bulgaria, Cuba (commercial), Great Britain, Hawaiian Islands, Mexico.
Naturalization, immigration or emigration. — Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Great Britain, Haiti, Hesse, Honduras, Mexico, North German Union, Peru, Portugal, Sweden and Norway, Uruguay, Wurttemberg.
The United States has other subjects on which treaties, conventions and agreement are based, besides the foregoing, among which may be mentioned the open door policy and ex change of notes and the final protocol at the conclusion of the Boxer troubles, with China; recognition of the flag, with Congo; inter oceanic canal, with Costa Rica; agreement for lease of land for coaling station, with Cuba; readmeasurement of vessels, with Denmark; collection and applic•ation of the customs rev enues with the Dominican Republic; alliance, act separate and secret, contract for payment of loans, cession of Louisiana and relations in Tunis, with France;general act concerning Samoa, with German Enipire; tenure and dis position of property, with Guatemala; abolish ing droit d'aubaine, with Hesse, Nassau, Saxony and Wurttemberg; reimbursing ship wreck expenses and exchange of notes declar ing policy in the Far East, with- Japan; pur suit of Indians (eight agreements) and claims (uThe Pious Fund") with Mexico; inter oceanic canal, with Nicaragua; right to hold real estate, with Ottoman Empire; neutrals at sea and whaling ships, with Peru; Pacific Ocean and northwest coast of America, neu tral rights at sea, cession of Alaska, admeas urement of vessels, fur-seal fisheries and cor porations, with Russia; regulation of the liquor traffic, with Sardinia; judicial procedure, dis criminating duties, tonnage duties, commerce, with Cuba and Porto Rico, cession of outlying islands and letters rogatory, with Spain; prop erty with Switzerland; neutrals at sea, with the Two Sicilies; and duties on liquors and consular powers, with Zanzibar.
The United States has made more treaties and other forms of agreement with Great Bri tain -than with any other country. These in clude the following subjects: Naval forces on the Great Lakes; fisheries, boundary, and res titution of slaves; indemnity under the award of the emperor of Russia (1822) ; indemnity for slaves (1826) ; arbitration northeastern boundary; boundaries, suppression of slave trade, and extradition (Webster-Ashburton —1842); boundary west of Rocky Mountains; ship canal connecting Atlantic and Pacific oceans (1850) ; cession of Horseshoe Reef; reciprocity, fisheries, and navigation; suppres sion of slave trade (1862, 1863, 1870) ; claims, fisheries, navigation, and boundary (Treaty of Washington, 1871) ; original modus vivendi concerning fisheries, 1891, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909; general act concerning Samoan Islands; fur-seal fisheries; Bering Sea arbitration agreement; deserters from merchant vessels; Alaskan boundary, 1903-05-06; tenure and dis position of property; ship canal (Hay-Paunce fote Treaty, 1901); boundary line between United States and Canada, 1910, and boundary line in Passamaquoddy Bay, 1910.
The Second Hague Peace Conference Con ventions (1907) contained the following pro visions: Pacific settlement of international dis putes; the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts; opening of hostilities; the laws and customs of war on land; rights and duties of neu trals in land war; the laying of automatic submarine contact mines; bombardment by naval forces in time of war; the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Convention to naval war; rights and duties of neutral pow ers in naval war; and a declaration prohibiting the throwing of projectiles and explosives from balloons. The International Prize Court, which meets at The Hague, when called together to settle some international dispute is composed of 15 judges, eight of whom are chosen by the larger marine countries, Germany, Austria Hungary, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States, the other judges being chosen from the remaining nations. In prize cases an appeal may be taken from national courts to the international court, according to the Convention of 21 Sept. 1910.