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in the Chamber of summary procedure. It shall be read at a public sitting of the Chamber.

HEADING 2.-Advisory Procedure

Art. 71. Advisory opinions shall be given after deliberation by the full Court.

The opinions of dissenting judges may, at their request, be attached to the opinion of the Court.

Art. 72. Questions upon which the advisory opinion of the Court is asked shall be laid before the Court by means of a written request, signed either by the President of the Assembly or the President of the Council of the League of Nations, or by the Secretary-General of the League under instructions from the Assembly or the Council.

The request shall contain an exact statement of the question upon which an opinion is required, and shall be accompanied by all documents likely to throw light upon the question.

Art. 73. The Registrar shall forthwith give notice of the request for an advisory opinion to the members of the Court, and to the Members of the League of Nations, through the Secretary-General of the League, and to the States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant.

Notice of such request shall also be given to any international organizations which are likely to be able to furnish information on the question.

Art. 74. Any advisory opinion which may be given by the Court and the request in response to which it was given, shall be printed and published in a special collection for which the Registrar shall be responsible.

HEADING 3.-Errors

Art. 75. The Court, or the President if the Court is not sitting, shall be entitled to correct an error in any order, judgment or opinion, arising from a slip or accidental omission. Done at The Hague, the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

(8.) LODER,

President.

(8.) A. HAMMARSKJÖLD, Registrar.

RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF THE MEMBERS OF

THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Passed by the Assembly of the League of Nations, Geneva, December 18th, 1920

The Assembly of the League of Nations, in conformity with the provisions of Article 32 of the Statute, fixes the salaries and allowances of members of the Permanent Court of International Justice as follows:

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Duty allowances are payable from the day of departure until the return of the beneficiary.

An additional allowance of 50 florins per day is assigned for each day of actual presence at The Hague to the VicePresident and to the ordinary and deputy-judges. Allowances and salaries are free of all tax.

APPENDIX III

RESOLUTION OPENING THE COURT TO ALL NATIONS1

The Council of the League of Nations, in virtue of the powers conferred upon it by Article 35, paragraph 2, of the The text of this Resolution was reconsidered by the Council on May 17th, 1922. The Resolution is given here in the form in which it was finally approved on that date.

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Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and subject to the provisions of that Article,

Resolves:

1. The Permanent Court of International Justice shall be open to a State which is not a Member of the League of Nations or mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant of the League, upon the following condition, namely: that such State shall previously have deposited with the Registrar of the Court a declaration by which it accepts the jurisdiction of the Court, in accordance with the Covenant of the League of Nations and with the terms and subject to the conditions of the Statute and Rules of Procedure of the Court, and undertakes to carry out in full good faith the decision or decisions of the Court and not to resort to war against a State complying therewith.

2. Such declaration may be either particular or general. A particular declaration is one accepting the jurisdiction. of the Court in respect only of a particular dispute or disputes which have already arisen.

A general declaration is one accepting the jurisdiction generally in respect of all disputes, or of a particular class or classes of disputes which have already arisen or which may arise in the future.

A State in making such a declaration may accept the jurisdiction of the Court as compulsory, ipso facto, and without special convention, in conformity with Article 36 of the Statute of the Court; but such acceptance may not, without special convention, be relied upon vis-à-vis Members of the League of Nations or States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant which have signed or may hereafter sign the "optional clause" provided for by the additional Protocol of December 16th, 1920.

3. The original declarations made under the terms of this Resolution shall be kept in the custody of the Registrar of the Court. Certified true copies thereof shall be transmitted, in accordance with the practice of the Court, to all Members of the League of Nations and States mentioned in the Annex to the Covenant, and to such other States as the Court may

determine, and to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

4. The Council of the League of Nations reserves the right to rescind or amend this Resolution by a Resolution which shall be communicated to the Court; and on the receipt of such communication by the Registrar of the Court, and to the extent determined by the new Resolution, existing declarations shall cease to be effective except in regard to disputes which are already before the Court.

5. All questions as to the validity or the effect of a declaration made under the terms of this Resolution shall be decided by the Court.

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RULES OF WARFARE:

AIRCRAFT AND RADIO

As in the process of particular pleas between private men, all things ought to be ordered by rules of civil laws; so in the proceedings of the war nothing ought to be done against the law of nations, or the law of honor.-Lord Bacon, 1592: Works (London, 1740), Vol. IV, p. 342.

From December 11, 1922, until February 19, 1923, there was held at the Peace Palace, at The Hague, an international conference, composed of a Commission of Jurists and their Military and Naval Advisers, for the purpose of formulating a code of rules for the regulation of the use of aircraft and of radio in time of war. The

'The personnel of the conference was as follows:

American Delegation-Members of the Commission: The Honorable John Bassett Moore, Ambassador Extraordinary, Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice; The Honorable Albert Henry Washburn, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Vienna. Advisers: Rear-Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers, Naval Adviser; Brigadier-General William H. Johnston, Military Adviser; Captain Samuel W. Bryant, Naval Adviser (Radio); Colonel Frederick M. Brown, Military Adviser; Colonel George S. Gibbs, Military Adviser (Radio); Commander Forde A. Todd, Naval Adviser; Lieutenant-Commander Newton H. White, Naval Adviser (Aviation); Major William C. Sherman, Military Adviser (Aviation); Lieutenant Frederic W. Neilson, Naval Adviser (Aviation) and Aide to Admiral Rodgers; Mr. George R. Merrell, Jr., Third Secretary of Legation, Secretary to the Delegation.

British Delegation-Members of the Commission: The Right Honorable Sir Rennell Rodd, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.; Sir Cecil Hurst, K.C.B., K.C. Advisers: Mr. Alexander Flint, C.B., Principal Assistant Secretary of the Admiralty, Naval Adviser; Captain John C. Hamilton, R.N., Deputy Director of Plans at the Admiralty, Naval Adviser; Colonel W. K. Venning, C.M.G., M.C., Military Adviser; LieutenantColonel S. J. Lowe, D.S.O., O.B.E., Military Adviser; Air Commodore C. L. Lambe, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Military Adviser (Aviation);

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