All proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize, to be distributed December 10, 1915, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of this coming February. The grounds on which proposals are made must be stated and handed in with the other documents, and every work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print. For full details qualified persons are requested to communicate with the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly eligible: Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; members of Parliament and members of Government of the different states, as well as members of the Inter-parliamentary Union; members of the international Arbitration Court at the Hague; members of the commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; members and associates of the Institute of International Law; University professors of political science and of law, of history and of philosophy; and persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Institutions and associations may also be accorded the Prize.