COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE Protected by Imperial Copyright 1911 The Lord Baltimore Press BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. PREFACE. In preparing this book as a manual for officers of the United States Navy, I have not aimed at any undue originality; but rather to present matter that can be considered sound and authoritative. For that reason I have drawn largely from the Digest of International Law by Prof. J. B. Moore, a mine of information as to the accepted and historical policy of our government. The works of Dr. Thos. J. Lawrence and Prof. Oppenheim have been quoted very largely as the best and most recent treatises in English representing the European point of view upon matters of international law. My study of international law, begun at the United States Naval Academy and continued during mature years at the Naval War College, convinces me that to no service of the government is a knowledge of international law more valuable than to that of the navy. I might also add that, so far as my experience goes, there is no naval service whose members are more familiar with the tenets of the laws of nations than our own. CHARLES H. STOCKTON, Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy, Retired. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, CONTENTS. The nature and scope of international law.-Maritime codes. Sovereign States.-Their attributes and formation.-Other Fundamental rights and duties of States.-Territorial prop- PAGE I. The Declaration of Paris, 1856.-II. Regulations concerning the laws and customs of land warfare.-III. Convention for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Con- vention to maritime warfare.-IV. Declaration of London. -V. Convention respecting the rights and duties of |