vided always that nothing in this Convention shall prevent 
any of the contracting States from settling by its own laws 
the rights allowed to its own citizens before its own Courts. 
Article 5.—This Convention shall not be binding on a 
belligerent State in respect of claims arising during the 
period of belligerency. 
IMPERIAL POLICY WITH REGARD TO THE IMPORT 
5. 
AND EXPORT OF LIVESTOCK. 
After consideration of this question, the Imperial Economic 
Conference decided that steps should be taken to promote Inter- 
Imperial trade in pedigree stock throughout the Empire as a whole 
on reciprocal terms, subject always to satisfactory precautions 
being taken against the introduction of disease. 
It was further agreed that a Conference shonld be arranged 
between representatives of His Majesty's Government and the 
Canadian Government to consider the question of the administrative 
interpretation of the terms of “ The Importation of Animals Act, 
1022.” 
6. IMPERIAL POLICY WITH REGARD TO FORESTRY. 
It was decided to adopt the following resolution :— 
That the Imperial Economic Conference accepts generally 
the resolutions of the Empire Forestry Conference (Canada, 
1923), and recommends them to the respective Governments of 
the Empire for their favourable consideration.* 
7. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. 
1t was decided to adopt the following resolutions : 
ReEsoLUTION I. 
Non-resident Workmen. 
That this Imperial Economic Conference, taking note of 
the existing restrictions in the Workmen’s Compensation laws 
of certain parts of the British Empire on the payment of benefits 
to workmen and their dependants on the ground of non-residence 
in the State in which the accident happened, and having regard 
to the tendency of such restrictions to discourage movement 
within the Empire, is of opinion that no British subject who is 
permanently incapacitated, and no dependant of a British 
subject who has been killed, by accident due to his employment 
in any part of the Empire should be excluded from any benefit 
to which he would otherwise be entitled under the Workmen’s 
Compensation law of that part of the Empire on the ground of 
his removal to or residence in another part of the Empire, 
* Tt is understood that the Report of the Empire Forestry Conference 
Canada), 1923, is being communicated separately to the Press,