5. Les Alliés rechercheront les mesures, communes ou particulières, à prendre pour empêcher l'exercice sur leurs territoires par les sujets ennemis de certaines industries ou professions intéressant la Défense nationale ou l'indépendance economique. C. Mesures permanentes d'Entr'aide et de Collaboration entre les Alliés. 1". Les Alliés décident de prendre sans délai les mesures nécessaires pour s'affranchir de toute dépendance des pays ennemis relativement aux matières premières et objets fabriqués essentiels pour le développement normal de leur activité économique. sources Ces mesures devront tendre à assurer l'indépendance des Allies non seulement en ce qui concerne les d'approvisionnement, mais aussi en ce qui touche à l'organisation financière, commerciale et maritime. Pour l'exécution de cette résolution les Alliés adopteront les moyens leur paraissant le mieux appropriés selon la nature des marchandises et suivant les principes qui régissent leur politique économique. Iis pourront notamment recourir soit à des entreprises subventionnées, dirigées ou contrôlées par les Gouvernements eux-mêmes, soit a des avances pour encourager les recherches scientifiques et techniques, le développement des industries et des ressources nationales; soit à des droits de douane ou à des prohibitions à titre temporaire ou permanent; soit enfin a une combinaison de ces divers moyens. Quels que soient les moyens adoptés, le but poursuivi par les Alliés est d'accroître assez largement la production sur l'ensemble de leurs territoires, pour qu'ils soient à mème de maintenir et de développer leur situation et leur indépendance économiques au regard des Puissances ennemies. 2. Afin de leur permettre d'écouler réciproquement leurs produits, les Alliés s'engagent à prendre les mesures destinées à faciliter leurs échanges, tant par l'établissement de services directs rapides et à tarifs réduits de transports terrestres et maritimes, que par le développement et l'amélioration des communications postales, télégraphiques ou autres. 3. Les Alliés s'engagent à réunir des délégués techniques. pour préparer les mesures propres à unifier le plus possible. leurs législations concernant les brevets d'invention, les indications d'origine, les marques de fabrique ou de commerce. Les Alliés adopteront à l'égard des inventions, des marques de fabrique et de commerce, des œuvres littéraires et artistiques, crées durant la guerre en pays ennemis, un régime autant que possible identique et applicable dès la cessation des hostilités. Ce régime sera élaboré par les délégués techniques des Alliés. D. Les Représentants des Gouvernements alliés : Constatant que pour leur commune défense contre l'ennemi, les Puissances alliées sont d'accord pour adopter une même politique économique dans les conditions définies par les résolutions qu'ils ont arrêtées, Et reconnaissant que l'efficacité de cette politique dépend d'une façon absolue de la mise en œuvre immédiate de ces résolutions, S'engagent à recommander à leurs Gouvernements respectifs de prendre sans retard toutes les mesures temporaires ou permanentes propres à faire produire immédiatement à cette politique son plein et entier effet, et de se communiquer entre eux les décisions intervenues pour atteindre ce but GREAT BRITAIN. ACT of the British Parliament to Consolidate and amend the Law relating to Pilotage. [2 & 3 Geo. V, c. 31.] [March 7, 1913.] BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: PART I.-Revision and Pilotage Organisation. 1. The Board of Trade shall take steps to obtain information with respect to pilotage organisation at the various ports in the United Kingdom, and, by the exercise of their powers under this Act to make Pilotage Orders, shall carry into effect any reorganisation or improvement of organisation which the Board may consider necessary or expedient at any port, and shall also at any port deal by Pilotage Order with any Act, order, charter, custom, bye-law, regulation, or provision in force at the port with a view to rendering the law relative to pilotage at the various ports in the United Kingdom accessible and, so far as possible, uniform. 2.-(1.) The Board of Trade shall also take steps to obtain information with respect to the bye-laws as to pilotage in force at the various ports in the United Kingdom, and, after consulting with the pilotage authority at the port and considering any bye-laws proposed by that authority, shall, when necessary or expedient, and with a view to securing, so far as practicable, uniformity of administration and to carry out any changes consequent on the passing of this Act, make recommendations for the substitution of new bye-laws for those in force at the port, or in case there are no such bye-laws in force, for the making of such bye-laws as may be required at the port. (2.) If a pilotage authority fail to submit bye-laws in accordance with the recommendations for confirmation by the Board of Trade under this Act, the Board may treat the bye-laws recommended by the Board as if they were byelaws submitted to them by the pilotage authority for confirmation, and those bye-laws, when confirmed by the Board of Trade in accordance with this Act, shall have the same effect as if they had been so submitted. 3.-(1.) The Board of Trade shall appoint such persons as they think fit to act as Commissioners for the purposes of this Act, but the appointment of any person appointed to be a Commissioner under this Section shall not have effect beyond the 1st day of January, 1917, or such date, not being more than five years later, as the Board of Trade, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine. (2.) The Board of Trade may appoint and employ such officers or other persons as they think fit to assist any persons acting as Commissioners in the execution of their duties under this Act. (3.) The salaries and remuneration of any persons acting as Commissioners, and of any persons so appointed or employed, shall be determined by the Board of Trade, with the approval of the Treasury, and any such salaries and remuneration, and all expenses incurred by the Board of Trade in the execution of this Act, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament. 4.-(1.) With a view to the preparation of schemes for the reorganisation or improvement of organisation of pilotage, the Board of Trade shall cause local inquiries to be held by any persons acting as Commissioners under this Act at the various ports of the United Kingdom, except in cases where the pilotage authority of the port has submitted, in accordance with this Act, a scheme for the purpose to the Board of Trade, and the Board of Trade are satisfied that the scheme so submitted, with such modifications (if any) as may be made by the Board, is adequate for the purpose, or the pilotage authority have satisfied the Board of Trade that no scheme for the reorganisation or improvement of organisation of pilotage at the port is necessary or expedient. Any such local inquiry may, if the Board think it necessary or desirable, include an inquiry into the bye-laws in force at the port where the inquiry is held, and into the operation of those bye-laws. (2.) Where any such inquiry is held at any port, the person holding the inquiry shall make a report to the Board of Trade recommending to the Board a scheme for the purpose of the reorganisation or improvement of organisation of pilotage at the port, or if a scheme has been submitted by the pilotage authority, recommending any amendments which it appears expedient to make in the scheme so submitted. (3.) The Board of Trade may, in any case they think fit, group ports for the purpose of any such local inquiry, and in that case the ports so grouped shall be dealt with at the same inquiry. (4.) Any pilotage authority may, within three months. after the passing of this Act, give notice to the Board of Trade of their intention to submit a scheme to the Board for the purpose of the reorganisation or improvement of organisation of pilotage at their port, and shall in such a case also give such public notice of their intention as the Board may require, and if such a scheme is so submitted to the Board within nine months after the passing of this Act, the scheme shall be treated as a scheme submitted to the Board in accordance with this Act. 5.-(1.) Notice of any local inquiry to be held under this part of this Act shall be given and published in such manner as the Board of Trade think best fitted for giving information of the time and place of the inquiry to those concerned, and all persons interested shall be permitted to attend and make representations. (2.) Any person holding a local inquiry shall have power. by summons signed by him, to require the attendance of all such persons as he thinks fit to call and examine for the purpose of the inquiry, and shall have power to require the production of all books, papers, and documents which he considers important for that purpose. (3.) Any persons attending as witnesses at any such local inquiry shall be allowed such expenses as would be allowed to witnesses attending before a Court of Record, or in Scotland before the Court of Session, and in case of dispute as to the amount to be allowed, the dispute shall be referred by any person holding the local inquiry to a master or district registrar of the Supreme Court, or in Scotland to the auditor of accounts in the Court of Session, who on request signed by him shall ascertain and certify the proper amount of the expenses. (4.) If any person without reasonable excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him, fails to comply with any summons or requisition of a person holding a local inquiry under this Section, or impedes a person holding a local inquiry in the execution of his duty, he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeling 51., and, in addition, to a fine not exceeding 11. for every day during which the offence continues. 6. The Board of Trade, before making recommendations to a pilotage authority under this Act for the substitution of new bye-laws for those in force in any port, and a pilotage authority, before submitting any scheme to the Board for the reorganisation or improvement of organisation of pilotage at their port shall, unless pilots are directly represented on the authority or on a pilotage committee of the authority, take steps to ascertain the opinion of the pilots at the port with respect to the matter in question. PART II.-General Pilotage Law. 7.-(1.) The Board of Trade may, by Order made under this Act (in this Act referred to as a Pilotage Order)— (a.) Make such rearrangement of pilotage districts and pilotage authorities as the Board think necessary or expedient; and (b.) Establish new pilotage districts and new pilotage. authorities, and abolish existing pilotage districts and existing pilotage authorities, in cases where it appears to the Board necessary or expedient; and (c.) Define the limits of pilotage districts, distinguishing as respects any pilotage district in part of which pilotage is compulsory and in part of which pilotage is not compulsory, the part of the district in which pilotage is compulsory; and (d.) Provide for the incorporation of any pilotage authority, and make such alteration in the constitution of any pilotage authority with reference to their powers and duties as pilotage authority, and such provisions as to the appointment. of committees (including, if it is thought fit, persons not members of the authority), and as to the relations between the authority and the committee, as the Board think necessary or expedient; and (e.) Empower a pilotage authority to delegate to a committee thereof any of its powers and duties, and provide, if it seems necessary or desirable, that the decisions of the |