For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Subscription price, 50 cents per year Price 15 cents 1. Rules for determining maximum load lines of merchant ships... - II. Boundaries of the zones and seasonal areas INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION PREAMBLE THE Governments of Germany, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, the Irish Free State, the United States of America, Finland, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; desiring to promote safety of life and property at sea by establishing in common agreement uniform principles and rules with regard to the limits to which ships on international voyages may be loaded, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: The Government of Germany: Mr. Gustav Koenigs, Ministerialdirigent in the Reichsverkehrsministerium, Geheimer Regierungsrat, Berlin. Mr. Arthur Werner, Ministerialrat in the Reichsverkehrsministerium, Geheimer Justizrat, Berlin. Professor Walter Laas, Director of the "Germanischer Lloyd" Classification Society, Berlin. Mr. Karl Sturm, Verwaltungsdirector of the See-Berufsgenossenschaft, Hamburg. The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia: Captain Henry Priaulx Cayley, Royal Australian Navy, Commonwealth Naval Representative in London. Mr. Vincent Cyril Duffy, Australia House. The Government of Belgium: Mr. Raoul F. Grimard, Naval Engineer, Technical Adviser to the Central Naval Department. The Government of Canada: Mr. Alexander Johnston, Deputy Minister of Marine. The Government of Chile: Lieut.-Commander Constructor Oscar Bunster, Member of the Chilian Naval Commission in London. The Government of Cuba: Mr. Guillermo Patterson, Cuban Minister in London. |