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toutes les Puissances contrac- matic channel to all the Contracttantes.

ARTICLE 13.

Les Puissances non signataires, qui auront accepté la Convention de Genève du 22 août 1864, sont admises à adhérer à la présente Convention.

Elles auront, à cet effet, à faire connaitre leur adhésion aux Puissances contractantes, au moyen d'une notification écrite, adressée au Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et communiquée par celui-ci à toutes les autres Puissances contractantes.

ARTICLE 14.

S'il arrivait qu'une des Hautes Parties contractantes dénonçât la présente Convention, cette dénonciation ne produirait ses effets qu'un an après la notification faite par écrit au Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et communiquée immédiatement par celui-ci à toutes les autres Puissances contractantes.

Cette dénonciation ne produira ses effets qu'à l'égard de la Puissance qui l'aura notifiée.

En foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires ont signé la présente Convention et l'ont revêtue de leurs cachets.

Fait à la Haye, le vingt-neuf juillet mil huit cent quatre-vingt dix-neuf, en un seul exemplaire qui restera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement des Pays-Bays et dont des copies, certifiées conformes, seront remises par la voie diplomatique aux Puissances contractantes.

Pour l'Allemagne:

(L. S.) MUNSTER DERNEBURG. (Sous réserve de l'article X.) Pour l'Autriche-Hongrie: (L. s.) WELSERSHEIMB.

(L. S.) OKOLICSANYI.

Pour la Belgique:

(L. S.) A. BEERNAERT.

(L. s.) CTE DE GRELLE ROGIER. (L. S.) CHR DESCAMPS.

ing Powers.

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In the event of one of the High Contracting Parties denouncing the present Convention, such denunciation shall not take effect until a year after the notification. made in writing to the Netherlands Government, and forthwith communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers.

This denunciation shall only affect the notifying Power.

In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and affixed their seals thereto.

Done at The Hague the 29th July, 1899, in single copy, which shall be kept in the archives of the Government of the Netherlands, and copies of which duly certified, shall be sent through the diplomatic channel to the Contracting Powers.

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(L. S.) A. BEERNAERT.

(L. S.) CTE. DE GRELLE ROGIER.

Notification.

Denunciation.

Deposit of original.

Signatures.

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Pour la Grande Bretagne et l'Ir- For Great Britain and Ireland:

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Pour les Royaumes Unis de Suède For the United Kingdoms of Swe

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den and Norway:
(Signed) (L. s.) BILDT.
For Switzerland:

(Signed) (L. s.) ROTH.
For Turkey:

(Signed) (L. s.) TURKHAN.
(L. S.) MEHEMED NOURY,
(Under reserve of Article X.)
For Bulgaria:

(Signed) (L. s.) D. STANCIOFF.
(L. S.) MAJOR HESSAPTCHIEFF.
Certified as a true copy, The Sec-
retary General of the Department
of Foreign Affairs,

L. H. RUYSSENAERS.
THE HAGUE, January 31, 1900.

And whereas on an understanding reached by the Government of the Netherlands with the signatory powers it was agreed to exclude from the ratifications of said Convention its Article X;

And whereas the said Convention, with its Artiele X excluded, was ratified by the Government of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Governments of the other Powers aforesaid, with the exception of those of China and Turkey;

And whereas, in pursuance of the stipulations of Article XII of the said Convention the ratifications of the said Convention were deposited at the Hague on the 4th. day of September, 1900, by the Plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Siam, Sweden and Norway and Bulgaria; on the 6th. day of October, 1900. by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Japan; on the 6th. day of October, 1900, by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Monténégro; on the 29th. day of December, 1900, by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Switzerland; on the 4th. day of April, 1901, by

Ratification.

Proclamation.

April, 1901, by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Mexico; on the 11th. day of May, 1901, by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Servia, and on the 12th. day of July, 1901, by the Plenipotentiary of the Government of Luxembourg:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention, with its Article X excluded, to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof,

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, and
[L. S.] of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred
and twenty-sixth.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

By the President:

JOHN HAY

Secretary of State.

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