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The International Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the Act of Congress Giving Effect to Its Provisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

William Roy Vallance
William Roy Vallance*
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Department of State
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1937 , pp. 112 - 119
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1937

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References

1 Kellogg, Dr. Remington, National Museum, represented the United States Google Scholar.

2 League of Nations Documents, C.353.M.146.1930.II.

3 See also Treaty Information Bulletin No. 32, May, 1932, p. 21. For further history of the whaling industry and proposed regulation, see L’Exploitation des Richesses de la Mer, by Jessup, P. C. AcaclAntie de Droit International, Recueil des Cours (1929), Vol. IV, pp. 403–514; also, this JOURNAL, Vol. 24 (1930), p.751 et seq Google Scholar.

4 The convention is printed in this JOURNAL, Supp., Vol. 30 (1936), p. 167.

5 Senate Committee Print, 73rd Cong., 2nd Sess., incorporating report pursuant to Senate Resolution 246, 71st Congress, entitled “Economics of the Whaling Industry with Relationship to the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.”

6 Hearings on S. 3413, 74th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 97.

7 Hearings, supra, p. 101.

8 Hearings, supra, p. 81.

9 24 and 25 Geo.V, Chap. 49, 1934 Law Reports 418.

10 Statutory Rules and Orders, 1935, No. 885.

11 40 Stat., Pt. I, p. 755.

12 39 Stat., Pt. II, p. 1702; this JOURNAL, Supp., Vol. 11 (1917), p. 62. See also Convention for Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals, concluded Feb. 7, 1936, between the United States and Mexico, and the Act of Congress approved June 20, 1936, 49 Stat. 1555; U. S. Code, Supp. II, Title 16, Secs. 703-709a.

13 252 U.S. 416; this Journal, Vol. 14 (1920), p. 459.

14 Senate Report No. 1455, 74th Cong., 1st Sess.

15 37 Stat., Pt. I, p. 499, U.S.C., Title 16, Secs. 632-643A; this JOURNAL, Supp., Vol. 7 (1913), p. 140.

16 For the convention, see 37 Stat., Pt. II, p. 1542; this JOURNAL, Supp., Vol. 5 (1911), p. 267.

16a See the Tariff Act of 1930, Sec. 527 (46 Stat. 741; U. S. Code 1934, Title 19,, Sec. 1527), which prohibits the importation of any wild mammal or bird taken, killed, possessed or exported in violation of law or regulation of a foreign country.

17 House Report No. 2154, 74th Cong., 2nd Sees.

18 49 Stat. 1246; this JOURNAL, Supp., Vol. 30 (1936), p. 198.

19 47 Stat. 142; United States Code, Title 16, Secs. 771-771-J.

20 47 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1872; this JOURNAL, Vol. 25 (1931), p. 188.

21 See Act of June 14, 1935, published in Legal Gazette on June 30, 1935.

22 See Lovticlencle for Kongeriget Danmark, 1934, pp. 578–580, 1789.

23 See Diario Oficial, March 15, 1927.

24 See Whale Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1907, and Whaling Industry (Factory) (Scotland) Regulations, 1935, dated July 19, 1935.

25 See Law of March 13, 1936, and Decree of April 3, 1936.

26 See Order in Council of Feb. 17, 1931, pp. 28–30.

27 See Federal Register, Oct. 17, 1936, Vol. 1, p. 1871.

28 International Whaling Statistics, VII, Edited by The Committee for Whaling Statistics Appointed by the Norwegian Government.

29 See, for example, the International Convention for the Protection of Fauna and Flora, signed at London, Nov. 8, 1933. The Institute of Pacific Relations is studying the fisheries of the Pacific.