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TheSecl-otaryof Afrrifulturc, ill view of said (locuniciits ami after ohta'iiiiiji; all the inf<iriiia- 

 tion which ho dooms projior as roKards the sufficiency of i\ut KUaraiitoe, shall urocoed in a proper 

 case to obtain from the President of the Republic th(> authorization referred to in said Article 

 Fiftieth. 



Article Sixkctdh: Foreign hriiis and concerns shall also be under the obligation of having 

 uitiiin the country a representative as required by Article Fiftieth of this Law, with the con- 

 ditions and requirements therein stated, which they shall establish in the petition in which 

 tihey request the said authorization. When the Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor 

 learns that for any reason the said representative has quit his office, he shall proceed in the 

 same manner as is indicated with reference to insurance comjianies. 



Arliclc Seventeenth: The notice; of meeting which Article Twenty-eighth of the Law pro- 

 vides shall be given by the Judge of the First Instance to the parties or their representatives, so 

 that they may reach an agreement, shall be understood to mean to the representatives in tli(! 

 locality of the insurance company in the cases where the employer is not the insurer. 



Artlde Eighteenth : \\'hen it happens that the employer or the contractor of the Avork are 

 themselves the insurers, the citation to appear before the judge shall be served at the residence 

 of the employer if it should be situated in the same place as the court and, if not, at the reisdcnco 

 of the head or person in charge of the work who may have his residence within the Judicial 

 District, and if there should be no one to accept the said citation, after an order certifying to the 

 fact has been ol)tained and signed by the clerk of the court in which the -proceedings are had, 

 the same shall be l)i)sted in the court house. 



Article Nineteenth : When the injured workman, or his representatives duly authorized, shall 

 inform the Court of the First Instance that his claims under the Workmen's Compensation 

 Law have been fully satisfied, the Judge of the First Instance shall terminate the proceedings, 

 no matter at what stage they may be, and shall have the papers duly filed. 



TRAXSITORV 

 Article Twenti':th : In view of the temporary character of the present Rules and Regulations 

 the Executive shall name a commission which shall confer with all the industrial and lal)oring 

 classes of the country, which are affected by the Law of the 12th of June, of the current year 

 and shall propose within a period of six months the modifications which it believes ought to be 

 introduced in the Rules and Regulations previously established. 



Given in the President's Palace in Havana on the 12th day of December, 1916. 



CODE OF NEUTRALS CUBITAS VALLEY FAIR 



A code of rules of maritime neutrality which On account of the excessive rainfall, the 



should govern the relations between belliger- vegetab'e growers considered it advisable to 



ents and neutrals was submitted to the Ameri- postpone the Cubitas Valley Fair in order to 



can Institute of International Law in annual have a more complete line of vegetables for the 



ses.ion at Havana, Jan. 22. exhibition; con.«equentIy, the Fair Association 



The proposed regulations practically pro- has po.itponed the Fair dates to February 27 



vide for freedom of the seas in time of war. and 28 and March 1, 1917. This year 



Commercial blockades would be forbidden the La Gloria Fair A.ssociation departs from 



and mails inviolate; merchant ships without its usual custom by having other societies 



contraband, whether of belligerant or neutral meet in convention. The Cuban Xation;d 



registry, would be unmolested if they bore Horticultural Society ard the Cuba Fruit 



vi.seed papers; right of search at sea wouid be Exchange will meet at this time in conjuuc- 



abolished. The mandates would be enforced tion with the Fair Association, and there will 



by a neutral conference with authority to l)e representatives and ex-perts from the 



take "severe measures" against violators. various Citrus Fruit Colonies of the Island. 



The code was drafted by Dr. Alejandro Al- The Government will be represented also, 



varez, Secretary General of the institute, and It is hoped that out of this Congress there 



who formeny was juriconsult to the Chilean shall come a consolidation of all Citrus 



Foreign Office and counselor to the Chilean grow-ers for a more complete National 



legations abroad. It will be referred to the Exchange, 

 national society of international law in each 

 of the twenty-one American republics. 



