Report of the International Law Committee, on the impediments to the trade between the United Kingdom and America which exist in Dublin from the unsatisfactory state of the law as to foreign sailors

Abstract

We requested Mr. Bagenal, one of our body, to make enquiries as to what impediments to the trade between The United Kingdom and America exist in the port of Dublin; and he wrote to the United States consul. The answer, in effect, was that the chief complaints were a lack of power to act on the side of the local authorities as well as on the side of the consul; that the United States and the United Kingdom have no treaty regarding sailors; that police aid to recover deserters is extended sometimes, and that by courtesy only. The consul's note ended with a suggestion that a reciprocal convention between the two countries would arrange matters satisfactorily.