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CONTENTS

REPORT OF THE DELEGATES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES.......

Committee on the Pan American Union (No. 1)-----

Committee on Public International Law and Frontier Police (No. 2) --

Project I: Fundamental bases of international law.

Project II: States: Existence-equality-recognition..

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Project XI: Obligations of states in the event of civil war..

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Committee on Private International Law and Uniform Legislation

(No. 3)‒‒‒‒‒‒

Committee on Communications (No. 4).

(1) Commercial aviation-----

(2) Regulation of international automotive traffic and results of

Pan American Highway Conference_--

(3) Means for facilitating the development of fluvial intercommuni-

cation

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(4) International regulation of railway traffic-_-.

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(5) Consideration of the report of the Pan American Railway Com-

mittee-----

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(6) Establishment of steamship lines and elimination of unnecessary

port formalities____

Committee on Treaties, Conventions, and Resolutions (No. 8).

Committee on Initiatives____

Appendix 1: Program and regulations of the Conference__
Appendix 2: Address of President Machado, January 16, 1928.

Address of President Coolidge, January 16, 1928-

Appendix 3: Address of Rafael Martinez Ortiz, temporary President

of the Conference, January 18, 1928‒‒‒‒

Address of Alejandro Lira, chairman of the Chilean

delegation, January 18, 1928-

Address of Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante, permanent

President of the Conference, January 18, 1928-

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APPENDICES-Continued.

Miscellaneous-Continued.

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Appendix 4: List of the officials and delegates__.

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Appendix 5: List of the committees of the Conference__

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Conventions

Appendix 6: Private international law.

96

Appendix 7: Commercial aviation

177

Appendix 8: Revision of the convention of Buenos Aires regarding

Appendix 15: Rights and duties of states in the event of civil strife_

Appendix 16: Pan American Union___.

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Resolutions

Appendix 17: Pan American Union____

239

Appendix 18: Ratification of the Pan American sanitary code_--_--

240

Appendix 19: Technical advisers on hygiene for future conferences

and promotion of public health_-

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Appendix 20: Pan American Red Cross Conferences_

243

Appendix 21: Pan American Conferences of Representatives of Public

Health Services-----

244

Appendix 22: Application of principles and procedure of public

health administration

245

Appendix 23: Conference on Eugenics and Homoculture__

Appendix 24: Pan American Congresses of Journalists---.

Appendix 25: Topics for program of next Congress of Journalists----

Appendix 26: Fourth Pan American Commercial Conference and
commercial associations___

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Appendix 27: Pan American Institute of Geography and History----

Appendix 28: Publication of geodetic, geologic, and agricultural maps_

Appendix 29: Pan American Commission of Bibliographers__.

Appendix 30: Pan American Pedagogical Congress----.

Appendix 31: Inter-American Conference on Plant and Animal Sani-
tary Control_____.

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Appendix 32: Obligatory leave of absence for prospective mothers____

Appendix 33: Industrial and agricultural use of international rivers_

Appendix 34: Longitudinal highway----

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Appendix 35: Common unit of currency for the American Republics_

Appendix 36: Conference on the Inter-American Protection of Trade-

Marks.

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Appendix 37: Dictionary of Rufino J. Cuervo___.

266

Appendix 38: Simplification and standardization of consular pro-
cedure_.

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Appendix 39: Emigration and immigration--

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Appendix 40: Regulation of automotive traffic----

274

Appendix 41: Ratification of electrical communications conventions__

Appendix 42: Steamship lines and unnecessary port formalities---.

Appendix 43: Navigability of rivers_-

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Appendix 44: Pan American Railway

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APPENDICES-Continued.

Resolutions-Continued.

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Appendix 45: International railway traffic..

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Appendix 46: Maritime communications with Central American ports.

Appendix 50: Adoption of the metric decimal system----

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Appendix 51: Simplification of the calendar_---

287

Appendix 52: Pan American Congress of Municipalities---.

Appendix 53: Establishment of diplomatic and consular schools___

Appendix 54: Designating Montevideo as the seat of the Seventh

Conference

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Appendix 55: Commission on statistics of maritime, fluvial, land, and

aerial communications__‒‒‒

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Appendix 56: Adoption of the hectare-meter as a new unit of the

metric system----

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Appendix 57: Agricultural cooperation_‒‒‒

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Appendix 58: Uniform law on bills of exchange..

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Appendix 59: Legislation on the organization of stock companies----

Appendix 60: Commercial arbitration____

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Appendix 61: Inter-American Commission of Women_.

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Appendix 62: Circulation of magazines and other publications--.

Appendix 63: Revision of treaties.

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Appendix 64: Motion-picture films

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Appendix 65: Inter-American Institute of Intellectual Cooperation

and Congress of Rectors, Deans, and Educators----

Appendix 66: Primary courses in political and social economy-

Appendix 67: Journalists' pension and retirement funds_-_-

Appendix 70: Ratification of the convention of 1923 providing for

commissions of investigation____

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Appendix 71: Tribute to Doctor Alvarez___

313

Appendix 72: Adherence to the maritime-law conventions__

Appendix 73: Future codification of international law____.

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Appendix 74: Judicial organization to give effect to agreements of

the Conference_.

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Appendix 75: Resolutions of previous conferences_

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Appendix 76: Aggression_‒‒‒‒

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Appendix 77: Fundamental bases of international law and states___

321

Appendix 78: Study of measures to reduce losses through theft and

pilferage of cargo-----

322

Motions (Mociones)

Appendix 79: Expression of appreciation to the President of the

United States of America----.

323

Appendix 80: Expression of gratitude and appreciation to the Presi-

dent of the Republic of Cuba------

324

Appendix 81: Invitation to professors of the University of Habana to
attend the sessions of the Conference---

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Appendix 82: Tribute to Woodrow Wilson___.

326

Appendix 83: Authorization to the President of the Conference to

consider the report of the Committee on Credentials______

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