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RESOLUTIONS. The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to by the Conference, except where otherwise stated. I. Consultation of Dominions as to International Agreements affecting them. That this Conference after hearing the Secretary of State for Foreign June 2. Affairs cordially welcomes the proposals of the Imperial Government, viz., Rl32 ' (a) that the Dominions shall be afforded an opportunity of consultation when framing the instructions to be given to British delegates at future meetings of the Hague Conference, and that Conventions affecting the Dominions provisionally assented to at that Conference shall be circulated among the Dominion Governments for their consideration before any such Convention is signed; (b) that a similar procedure, where time and opportunity and the subject-matter permit, shall, as far as possible, be used when preparing instructions for the negotiations of other International Agreements affecting the Dominions. 11. Declaration of London. [The Commonwealth of Australia abstained from voting. .l That the Conference, after full consideration and debate, approves the June 2 - ratification of the Declaration of London. 111. British Shipping. That it is desirable that the attention of the Governments of the United June 2. Kingdom and of the Dominions should be drawn to the desirability of taking all P ' ls3 ' practical steps to secure uniformity of treatment to British shipping, to prevent unfair competition with British ships by foreign subsidised ships, to secure to British ships equal trading advantages with foreign ships, to promote the employment of British seamen on British ships, and to raise the status and improve the conditions of seamen employed on such ships, IV. Uniformity in Law of Copyright, Patents, Trade Marks, and Companies. That it is in the best interests of the Empire that there should be more Junes uniformity throughout its centres and dependencies in the law of copyright, ' 165, patents, trade marks, companies. V. International Exhibitions. That, in view of the International Conference to be held at Berlin in 1912 June 2. with a view to the regulation of the conditions under which international exhi- p " I7L bitions should receive support, it is desirable that the Imperial and Dominion Governments shall consider the matter in conjunction, so as to arrange, if possible, for concerted action upon this subject.

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