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Declaration. .1 of do hereby declare that the answers contained herein are to the best of my knowledge complete and true. I furthermore declare that I will provide employment for the workpeople sent out in accordance with the terms of this requisition, and that unless an urgent and sound reason exists for discharging an employee, employment for at least three consecutive months will be provided from the time of arrival. Dated . Signature Witness

(V.) Enforcement of Commercial Arbitration Awards. MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE RESOLUTION AS TO ENFORCEMENT OF COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION AWARDS, TO BE PROPOSED BY HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AT THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, 1911. Resolution. " That the Imperial Government should consider, in concert with the Dominion Governments, whether, and to what extent, and under what conditions, it is practicable and desirable to make mutual arrangements with a view to the enforcement in one part of the Empire of Commercial Arbitration awards given in another part." The circumstances which have led to the proposal of this Resolution are as follows : — During the last few years, representations have been received by His Majesty's Government from important commercial bodies —particularly the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, the Chambers of Commerce of London and West Hartlepool, and the London and Hull Corn Trade Associations —with reference to the difficulty, and often impossibility, of securing the enforcement abroad of awards given in arbitrations on commercial matters in the United Kingdom between British and foreign traders, where such awards are in favour of the former. The International Law Association have, at several of their congresses, discussed the larger matter of the mutual enforcement by civilized countries of foreign judgments generally, and the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce have also devoted attention to this subject. At the last meeting of the latter Congress held in London in June, 1910, the following resolution was passed:— Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitration Awards pronounced in Foreign Countries. 1. Judgments: — " The Congress is of opinion that the enforcement of judgments in foreign countries, without revision, would be facilitated by agreements between countries who have reciprocal confidence in their judicial institutions, and whose legislation rests upon similar bases. " In consequence of the diversity of legislation, agreements between two or several countries would be more easily attained than a Universal Convention, or one concluded between a large number of States." 2. Arbitration Awards: — " The Congress desires the Permanent Committee to institute an enquiry into the conditions under which arbitration awards are made in the different countries, and would be grateful if His Britannic Majesty's Government would take the initiative as to such enquiry." As a result of the representations above referred to reports have been obtained, at the request of the Board of Trade, through the Colonial and Foreign Offices, from the Governments of the Dominions and His Majesty's Embassies and Legations in foreign countries, relating to the existing legislation and practice with regard to 20703 D 2