I. Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes 592 II. Convention respecting the Limitation of the Employment of Force for the Recovery of Contract Debts 601 III. Convention relative to the Opening of Hostilities 602 IV. Convention concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land 603 V. Convention respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in War on Land 609 VI. Convention relative to the Status of Merchantmen at the Outbreak of Hostilities 612 VII. Convention relative to the Conversion of Merchantmen into Men-of-War 613 VIII. Convention relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines 614 IX. Convention respecting Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War 616 X. Convention for the Adaptation of the Principles of the Geneva Convention to Maritime Warfare 617 XI. Convention relative to certain Restrictions on the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War 621 XII. Convention concerning the Establishment of an International Prize Court 622 XIII. Convention concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Maritime War 629 XIV. Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons 632 XV. Draft Convention concerning the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court 632 VII. Declaration of London of 1909 (including the Report of the Drafting Committee) 637 VIII. Additional Protocol, of 1910, to the Hague Convention concerning the Establishment of an International Prize Court 665 IX. Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 667 X. The Naval Prize Act, 1864 674 XI. The Prize Courts Act, 1894 682 XII. Naval Prize Bill of 1911 683 XIII. Geneva Convention Act, 1911 690 INDEX 691 PART I SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES CHAPTER I AMICABLE SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES I STATE DIFFERENCES AND THEIR AMICABLE SETTLEMENT IN GENERAL