"So mergeth the true hearted
With aim fixt high

From place obscure and lowly
Veereth he naughte,

His works be wroughte.

How many Royal paths he trod

So many royal crowns hath God."

Gentlemen of the Canadian Bar Association, I give you greeting and congratulate you that you have come into being. I have had some opportunity to travel in your glorious country, not like your association in its infancy, but surely in an early and lusty youth. Your lofty mountains are an inspiration; your boundless prairies a prophecy; your lakes and forests and rivers are destined by Providence to minister to the wealth and prosperity of a mighty people. You are our kindred; you are born of the same great traditions; preserve them and believe that from our side of the imaginary boundary that separates us but in name, we shall rejoice in your growth and glory in your strength.

THE INTERNATIONAL CODE OF AERIAL LAW.

ISSUED BV DENYS P. MYERS, Boston.

In the last days of 1909 an International Juridic Committee on Aviation was organized at Paris and with the year 1910 began publishing the Revue Juridique International de la Locomotion Aérienne, under the editorial care of A. Henry-Couannier. The committee, on January 16th, 1910, decided upon the outline of a legal code of the air, which since been in course of elaboration and progress upon which is regularly reported in the committee's review. The committee itself consists of jurists, lawyers and legal students in France and French colonies, several of the states of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Spain, United States, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Sweden, Great Britain, Scotland, Canada and Egypt. The national membership form a national committee acting through a representative executive committee in Paris. This executive committee makes general studies upon a point of law and issues its preliminary decisions to national committees, which report back their opinions, the whole of which are harmonized so far as possible. The text decided upon in this way is definitively passed at annual congresses, which have been held at Paris in 1911, at Geneva in 1912 and at Frankfort in 1913.

The American committee consists of James Brown Scott, 2 Jackson place, Washington, national delegate to executive committee; Charles F. Beach, 95 rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, national reporter; Denys P. Myers, 40 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, national secretary; Arthur K. Kuhn, New York City; Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin of Connecticut, George Whitelock of Maryland, William W. Smithers of Pennsylvania, Joseph Wheless of Missouri and Ambrose Kennedy of Rhode Island.

Through the procedure above described the following text has been decided upon:—

Book I. Public Aerial Law.

Chapter I. General Principles of Aerial Circulation.

Art. 1. Aerial circulation is free, except for the right of subjacent states to take certain measures, to be deter

mined, with a view to their own security and to that of the persons and property of their inhabitants.

Art. 2. It is prohibited to pass above fortified works, into military basins and arsenals, as well as into their neighbourhood within a radius determined by the military authorities.

Art. 3. It belongs to the administrative and police authorities to regulate and, if there is occasion, to prohibit aerial circulation above areas which are built over.

Chapter II. Nationality and Registration of Aircraft.

Art. 4. Every aircraft must have one nationality and one only.

Art. 5. The nationality of the aircraft is that of its owner. If the aircraft belongs to a company, its nationality will be determined by that of the headquarters of the company.

In case the owners of the aircraft are of different nationalities, its nationality will be that of the joint owners who possess two-thirds of the value of the aircraft.

Art. 6. Every aircraft must bear a sign indicative of its nationality.

Art. 7. Every aircraft must carry with it a descriptive document containing all information proper to individualize it.

Art. 8. Every owner of an aircraft, before putting it into circulation outside of private aerodromes, must have obtained from the public authorities the inscription of this aircraft from a register of matriculation kept by the proper authority. Each state will regulate the registration of aircraft within its own territory.

Art. 9. Every aircraft must bear a distinctive mark indicating the place of its registration.

Art. 10. The registration lists will be published.

Chapter III. Landing and Alighting on Water.

Art. 11. Aircraft may land upon unenclosed properties. They may also alight upon and navigate all waters.

Art. 12. Except in the case of force majeure, this right is prohibited to them: (1) in the boundaries of closed properties; (2) within the boundaries of areas built over, ports and roadsteads, outside of spaces reserved for this purpose;