AND UTTERANCES OF NATIONAL ORGANS. 151 



the French reservation to the African Slave Trade Convention of 

 1890.^- It does not appear that all reservations attached to deposit 

 of ratifications of the Hague Convention were submitted to the 

 Senate and question might arise as to their validity, though undoubt- 

 edly, after a considerable lapse of time, the foreign nation would 

 be entitled to assume tacit acceptance of its reservation.*^ 



special sense in the act of ratification." Scott, op. cit., p. xxviii. See also 

 supra, note 37. 



42 The following draft of a Protocol of Jan. 2, 1892, is printed in 

 Malloy, Treaties, etc., p. 1990, following the African Slave Trade General 

 act of 1890: 



" The undersigned . . . met at the Ministrj-t of Foreign Affairs at 

 Brussels, in pursuance of Article XCIX of the General Act of July 2, 1890, 

 and in execution of the Protocol of July 2, 1891, with a view to preparing 

 a certificate of the deposit of the ratifications of such of the signatory 

 powers as were unable to make such deposit at the meeting of July 2^ 

 1 891. 



" His Excellency the Minister of France declared that the President of 

 the Republic, in his ratification of the Brussels General Act had provisionally 

 reserved, until a subsequent understanding should be reached, Articles XXI, 

 XXII, XXIII, and XLII to LXI. The representatives . . . , acknowledged 

 to the Minister of France the deposit of the ratifications of the President of 

 the French Republic, as well as of the exception bearing upon Articles XXI, 

 XXII, XXIII, and XLII to LXI. 



" It is understood that the powers which have ratified the General Act 

 in it's entirety, acknowledge that they are reciprocally bound as regards all 

 its clauses. 



" It is likewise understood that these powers shall not be bound toward 

 those which shall have ratified it partially, save w'ithin the limits of the 

 engagements assumed by the latter powers. 



" Finally, it is understood that, as regards the powers that have par- 

 tially ratified, the matters forming the subject of Articles XLII to LXI, 

 shall continue, until a subsequent agreement is adopted to be governed by 

 the stipulations and arrangements now in force. 



" In testimony whereof . . . ." 

 The Lf^nited States Senate resolution of ratification expressly accepted 

 the French reservation and made another which was consented to by the 

 powers prior to deposit of ratification. Supra, note 27. 



•*3 See U. S. reservation to Art. 53 of Hague Convention, 1907, Malloy, 

 Treaties, p. 2247, and discussion thereon, Scott, op. cit., p. xxvii. A Senate 

 reservation to the Algeciras Convention of 1906 was in the same spirit but 

 different terms from a reservation attached to American signature of 

 the treaty. Apparently the qualified ratification was accepted when de- 

 posited as required by Article 121 of the treaty. Malloy, Treaties, etc.. p. 

 2183. The Proces-Verbal of Deposit of Ratifications to the International 

 Sanitary Convention of .1903 notes reservations attached to the ratifications 



