AMENDMENTS. 23. Amendments of applications and statements may be allowed by the Commission where substantial justice requires it, and the time for the filing of any paper or the doing of any act by these rules required may be extended in the like case. SERVICE OF PROCESS. 24. Service of any subpoena, process, notice, or other document which must be served under the present rules, shall be by delivering a copy thereof to the person named therein, or by leaving the same at the dwelling house or usual place of abode or usual place of business of such person with some adult person who is a member of or resident in his family or with an employee in such place of business. Such service may be made by any literate person, who shall make return thereof under oath to the secretary from whom such subpoena, process, notice, or other document shall have been received, and such return shall state the time and place of such service. EXPENSES OF PROCEEDINGS. 25. All expenses incident to the prosecution of any proceedings before the Commission or upon applications presented under subsection (b) of Rule 6, including cost of publication of notices, service of subpoenas or other process, taking of testimony or depositions, witness fees, and all other expenses included in such proceedings, shall be paid by the party on whose behalf or at whose request such cost or expense is incurred. SUBMISSION TO GOVERNMENTS. 26. When in the opinion of the Commission it is desirable that a decision should be rendered which affects navigable waters in a manner or to an extent different from that contemplated by the application and plans, the Commission will, before making a final decision, submit to the government transmitting the application a draft of the decision, and such government may file with the Commission a brief or memorandum thereon which will receive due consideration by the Commission before its decision is made final. GENERAL RULE. 27. The Commission may, in the course of the proceedings, make any order which it deems expedient and necessary to meet the ends of justice and to effectually carry out the true intent and meaning of the treaty. ARTICLES IX AND X. 28. The foregoing rules, as far as applicable, shall apply to proceedings in all cases referred or submitted under Articles IX and X. ARBITRATION CONVENTION BETWEEN DENMARK AND FRANCE. Concluded at Copenhagen, August 9, 1911; ratifications exchanged at Copenhagen, December 21, 1911. The President of the French Republic and His Majesty the King of Denmark, signatories of the convention for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, concluded at The Hague, October 18, 1907, Whereas, by Article 40 of said convention, the high contracting parties have reserved unto themselves the right to conclude agreements "with the view of extending obligatory arbitration to all cases that they shall judge possible for submission thereto; Whereas, the Second Peace Conference was unanimous in recognizing in the Final Act the principle of obligatory arbitration, and in declaring that certain disputes are susceptible to be submitted unreservedly to obligatory arbitration; Have resolved to conclude a convention establishing these principles, and named as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the French Republic: M. Charles-Prosper-Maurice Horric de Beaucaire, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Copenhagen; His Majesty, the King of Denmark: His Excellency, M. le Comte Carl William Ahelfeldt Laurvig, his Minister of Foreign Affairs; Who, duly authorized, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE 1. Differences of a juridical nature and, particularly, those regarding the interpretation of treaties existing between the two contracting parties, which might hereafter arise between them and not be settled by diplomacy shall be submitted to arbitration in the terms of the Convention for the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, signed at The Hague, October 18, 1907, with the condition, however, that they affect neither the vital interests, nor the independence nor the honor of the one or the other of the contracting states, and that they do not affect the interests of third Powers. ARTICLE 2. The differences relating to the following questions shall be submitted to arbitration and the reservations mentioned under Article 1 may not be invoked in regard to them: I. Pecuniary claims under the head of damages when the principle of indemnification is recognized by the parties. II. Contractual debts claimed from the government of one of the parties by the government of the other party as due to its citizens. III. Interpretation and application of conventional stipulations relating to commerce and navigation. IV. Interpretation and application of the conventional stipulations. relating to the following matters: Industrial property. Literary and artistic property. International private law regulated by the conventions of The Hague. International protection of working men. Posts and telegraphs. Weights and measures. Submarine cables. Fisheries. Gauging of vessels. White slave traffic. In the differences relating to the matters referred to in N° IV of the present article, and over which, according to the territorial law, the judicial authority might be competent, the contracting parties have the right to submit the dispute to arbitration only after the national jurisdiction shall have definitively pronounced. The arbitral decisions rendered in the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph shall have no effect upon anterior judicial decisions. The contracting parties engage themselves to take or eventually to propose to the legislative branch the necessary measures so that the interpretation given by the arbitral decision in the cases referred to above may in fact impose itself upon their tribunals. ARTICLE 3. In each special case the high contracting parties shall sign a special. agreement clearly indicating the object of the dispute, the scope of the power of the arbiters, the procedure and the time limits to be observed in regard to the functioning of the arbitral tribunal. The contracting parties agree to confer upon the arbitral tribunal defined in the present convention the power to decide, in case of disagreement between themselves, if a difference which has arisen between them belongs to the category of differences to be submitted to obligatory arbitration in conformity with Articles 1 and 2 of the present convention. ARTICLE 4. If within the year that follows the notification by the more diligent party of a project of agreement, the high contracting parties are not successful in reaching an agreement regarding the measures to be taken, then the permanent court shall be competent for the establishment of the agreement. It may be invoked by the request of only one of the parties. The agreement shall be reached in conformity with the dispositions of Articles 54 and 45 of the Convention of The Hague for the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, of October 18, 1907. ARTICLE 5. The present convention is concluded for the period of five years with the privilege of tacit continuation for another five years, beginning with the exchange of the ratifications. ARTICLE 6. The present convention shall be ratified as early as possible, and the ratifications thereof exchanged at Copenhagen. Done at Copenhagen in duplicate, August 9, 1911. (L. S.) Signed: HORRIC DE Beaucaire. DECREE REGARDING THE REGISTRATION OF FRENCH CITIZENS ABROAD, BY THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR AGENTS.1 September 16, 1910. The President of the French Republic, in view of the tariff for the perception of fees in the diplomatic and consular chancelleries, which accompanies Article 58 of the Law on Finance of April 8, 1910; in 1 Revue générale de droit international public, 1911, No. 6, Documents, p. 41. view of the ordinance of November 28, 1833, regarding the registration of French citizens residing abroad, by the diplomatic and consular chancelleries; in view of the ordinance of October 28, 1833, regarding the duties of vice-consuls and consular agents, decrees: ARTICLE 1. The registration of French citizens possessing French personal status is operated in a special register by the diplomatic agents (in the residences where there are no consulates), consuls general, consuls and viceconsuls. Mention is made in this register of the name, surname, date and place of birth, last domicile in France, address abroad, profession, marital conditions (single, married, widowed), military condition (regular or irregular) of the registered person, as well as of the documents that have served for registration, witnesses having certified to their identity and to all of the necessary information. Mention is also made of the legitimate wife and of minor children if they reside in the same locality as the father of the family. ARTICLE 2. The registration of French citizens possessing a special status (natives of Algeria and of the colonies, not naturalized French citizens) and of subjects of countries placed under the sovereignty or the protectorate of France is operated in a register kept for that purpose by the diplomatic agents (in the residences where there are no consulates), consuls general, consuls and vice-consuls. In this register are entered as far as possible the categories enumerated in the preceding article. ARTICLE 3. A certificate bearing the categories of the register shall be delivered to every person inscribed in accordance with Articles 1 and 2. ARTICLE 4. The Minister of Foreign Affairs may by decree confer upon certain consular agencies the power to register and to deliver registration certificates in conformity with Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the present decree. Furthermore, he may by decree cancel the powers thus granted. ARTICLE 5. The diplomatic agents (in the residences where there are no consulates), consuls general, consuls and vice-consuls have the power to inscribe into a register for protégés, foreigners belonging to a state which |