[435] See Treaties of U. S. under respective dates.

[436] See Appendix, p. [398].

[437] For the discussion of "the immunity of private property on the high seas," at the Hague Peace Conference, see Holls, 306 et seq.

[438] Proclamations and Decrees during the war with Spain, pp. 77, 93.

[439] 3 Whart., § 391.

[440] Appendix, p. [365].

[441] "De Jure Belli," Bk. III., Ch. i., 5; The "Petershoff," 5 Wall., 28, 58.

[442] Woolsey, "Int. Law," § 194.

[443] U. S. Naval War Code, Arts. 34, 36; Appendix, p. [412]; see Propositions Institute Int. Law, Cambridge, 1895, §§ 3 and 4.

[444] The "Commercen," 1 Wheat., 382.