towage, wharfage, lightering, etc.; (4) for personal injuries sustained by passengers or crew; (5) for loss of life should be maintained and insisted on unless, as has already been indicated, some concession or compromise is proposed which meets your approval. As to the lien for loss of life, it seems desirable that the right of action on which it should rest should be explicitly created by the convention, or that a suitable stipulation should reserve to the several countries the right and duty of legislating to that end, where such legislation is necessary.

You are informed that the Maritime Law Association at the meeting last January, referred to above, adopted also the following resolution:

That each of the proposed conventions in regard to limitation of owner's liability and hypothecation and maritime liens be referred to a committee of five of this association, to be appointed by the president, to examine the same and report to the association at its next meeting whether the same should be adopted as proposed, and, if not, what changes or amendments should be made therein.

When the department receives the said report it will be forwarded to you, and it is suggested that informal application by you to the association may expedite its transmission.

You are also informed that recent diplomatic correspondence presents, on the part of the Governments of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, the question of the application of the conventions respecting collision and salvage to the respective colonies and possessions of the interested powers. It is the opinion of the Department of Commerce and Labor, to which the question was referred by this department for an expression of views on the practical aspects, that the conventions may with propriety be applied to the insular possessions of the United States. You will consider the subject carefully in the light of the suggestions, first, that legislation by Congress would apparently be necessary, since, for example, it is uncertain whether under existing legislation the Harter Act is in force in the Philippine Islands, as would clearly seem essential if the convention on collisions is to be applied there; and, second, that both conventions stipulate for another conference three years hence to consider maturely improvements which may be suggested and the extension of the sphere of application. Nevertheless, the question of the proper attitude of this Government at present is entrusted to your judgment and discretion. It is not intended to discourage the immediate extension of the conventions as widely as possible. Necessary legislation might follow the agreement, as in the case of the suspension of statutes of limitation. If, therefore, you deem it advisable to agree ad referendum to the extension of the stipulations of the conventions to colonies and possessions, you will submit a draft of such legislation as you consider essential for that purpose.

Expressing the hope that your mission and its duties may be agreeable and the results harmonious and satisfactory to yourselves and your respective colleagues,

I am, etc.,

ALVEY A. ADEE.

BRAZIL.

DEATH OF JOAQUIM NABUCO, BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES.

File No. 4737/35.

The Brazilian Chargé to the Secretary of State.

EMBASSY OF BRAZIL, Washington, January 17, 1910.

Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: Referring to the verbal communication of this morning, it is now my painful duty to announce to you the death of Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, the Brazilian ambassador, this morning at 11.40, of cerebral hemorrhage.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

File No. 4737/35.

E. L. CHERMONT.

President Taft to the President of Brazil.

[Telegram.]

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 17, 1910.

For my countrymen and in my own name I offer heartfelt condolence upon the death of Ambassador Nabuco.

File No. 4737/35.

WM. H. TAFT.

The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Chargé.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 17, 1910.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of this date, confirming your previous oral announcement of the death of Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Brazil near the Government of the United States.

In reply I inclose herewith for your information copies of the telegrams sent to President Pecanha and the American ambassador to Brazil, expressing the condolence of the President and of the Government and people of the United States on the death of the ambassador.

Be pleased, Mr. Chargé, to accept for yourself, the family of Mr. Nabuco, the Brazilian Government, and your Embassy the expression of the President's sorrow and of my own sorrow and that of the other officers of this department at the death of a gentleman whom we all esteemed for his endowments of mind, attractive personality, and courtesy in intercourse, and whose ability and tact have contributed so much to strengthen the friendship of our two countries.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. KNOX.

File No. 4737/35.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Dudley.

[Telegram.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 17, 1910.

The Government and people of the United States sincerely deplore the loss Brazil suffers in the death of the ambassador, who in his work among us has won the esteem and good will of all.

File No. 4737/36.

The President of Brazil to President Taft.

[Telegram-Translation.]

KNOX.

RIO, January 18, 1910.

Cordially thank you for condolences which in your name and that of the American people you were so good as to send me on the occasion of the death of Ambassador Joaquim Nabuco.

The Brazilian Nation and its Government receive with keen appreciation the demonstrations of sympathy with which the United States of America join us in our great grief over the loss that Brazil and the cause of Pan Americanism have just suffered.

File No. 4737/38.

NILO PECANHA.

Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.-Paraphrase.]

AMERICAN EMBASSY, Rio, January 20, 1910. Ambassador Dudley says he is in receipt of a telegram from the Brazilian minister for foreign affairs, Rio Branco, stating that the President and the Government and people of Brazil are most profoundly honored by the high and exceptional appreciation shown by the President of the United States and the Secretary of State in honor of the late Ambassador Nabuco and his family, and requests that the cordial and grateful acknowledgement of the Government and people of Brazil be communicated to the United States Government.

Mr. Dudley says Ambassador Nabuco is lamented by his countrymen to an extent which few Brazilian statesmen have ever been, and that universal appreciation is manifested for the honors extended to him by the United States. Says the President's offer of the Mayflower is esteemed as an exceedingly high honor to Brazil.

File No. 4727/39 A.

The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Chargé.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 20, 1910. SIR: I beg to confirm in writing what Mr. Hale, at my request, stated to you orally, that the President will be pleased to place his yacht, the Mayflower, at your disposal on the afternoon of Monday,

February 14, to convey the remains of the late Ambassador Nabuco from Washington to Hampton Roads, where the remains will be transferred to the cruiser Montana, which will convey them, escorted by yourself, to Rio de Janeiro.

Accept, etc.,

File No. 4737/40.

P. C. KNOX.

The Brazilian Chargé to the Secretary of State.

BRAZILIAN EMBASSY, Washington, January 21, 1910.

Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: I am directed by my Government to thank the Government of the United States for the part it has taken in our sorrow.

Words fail me, Mr. Secretary, when I attempt to express our deep sensibility of the sympathetic attitude of the American Government on the occasion of our ambassador's death. Indeed, it is impossible to adequately thank the President and you for the noble tribute you pay in your note of January 17 to the character of Ambassador Nabuco and for all the kindness of the American Government toward the ambassador's family. But, you may be sure, Mr. Secretary of State, that all these manifestations of esteem and regard were not bestowed unworthily, for among foreign representatives America has had no sincerer and more devoted friend than Ambassador Nabuco. Be pleased to accept, etc.,

E. L. CHERMONT.

File No. 4737/41.

The Brazilian Chargé to the Secretary of State.

BRAZILIAN EMBASSY, Washington, January 22, 1910.

Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of January 20, confirming the oral statement made to me, at your request, by Mr. Hale, Third Assistant Secretary of State, in regard to the President's kind offer of his yacht, the Mayflower, to convey the remains of the late Ambassador Nabuco, on the afternoon of February 14, from Washington to Hampton Roads, where the remains will be transferred to the cruiser Montana, which will convey them, escorted by me, to Rio de Janeiro.

For this courtesy and special honor I am requested by Baron Rio Branco, our minister of foreign affairs, to renew the earnest thanks of the Government of the United States of Brazil to the President and the American Government.

May I be permitted to add that Madame Nabuco and her children, as well as the embassy staff, are profoundly grateful for the tribute paid by the United States Government to the late Brazilian ambassador.

Be pleased, etc.,

E. L. CHERMONT.

File No. 4737/43.

The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Chargé.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, January 27, 1910. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 24th instant, stating you have been informed by the minister for foreign affairs of Brazil that "the battleship Minas Geraes, Capt. Baptista das Noves, has received orders to sail the beginning of February from Newcastle to Norfolk to escort the Montana.'

I have transmitted this information to the Secretary of the Navy. In this connection I beg to inform you that instead of the Montana, as stated in my note to you of the 20th instant, the Secretary of the Navy writes me to-day to say that the cruiser North Carolina will convey the remains of the late lamented ambassador to Brazil, and that the commanding officer of the ship has been ordered to cooperate with the authorities at Rio in such ceremonies as may occur upon the return of the ambassador's body to his own country.

The Secretary of the Navy further informs me that the commanding officer of the North Carolina has been ordered to arrive at Rio de Janeiro on the forenoon of Monday, March 7, and has been directed, if possible, to communicate with the signal station at Cape Brio, Brazil, in order that the exact hour of arrival may be telegraphed to that city in advance.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. KNOXx.

NATURALIZATION CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL.

Signed at Rio de Janeiro, April 27, 1908.

Ratification advised by the Senate, December 10, 1908.

Ratified by the President, December 26, 1908.

Ratified by Brazil, December 6, 1909.

Ratifications exchanged at Rio de Janeiro, February 28, 1910.

Proclaimed, April 2, 1910.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a naturalization convention between the United States of America and the United States of Brazil was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Rio de Janeiro on the twentyseventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the original of which convention, being in the English and Portuguese languages, is word for word as follows:

Convention establishing the status of naturalized citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin.

The United States of America and the United States of Brazil, led by the wish to regulate the status of their naturalized citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin, have

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