It shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war between the Contracting Powers, one of the belligerents is joined by a nonContracting Power.

The present Declaration shall be ratified as soon as possible.

The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague.

A procès-verbal shall be drawn up recording the receipt of the ratifications, of which a duly certified copy shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to all the Contracting Powers.

Non-Signatory Powers may adhere to the present Declaration. To do so, they must make known their adhesion to the Contracting Powers by means of a written notification, addressed to the Netherland Government, and communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers.

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

This denunciation shall only have affect in regard to the notifying Power.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present Declaration.

Done at The Hague, the 18th October, 1907, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherland Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to the Contracting Powers.

1. Pour l'Allemagne :

2. Pour les États Unis d'Amé- JOSEPH H. CHOATE.

12. Pour la République de Cuba: ANTONIO S. DE BUSTAMANTE

GONZALO DE QUESADA.

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MANUEL SANGUILY,

14. Pour la République Domini- DR. HENRIQUEZ Y CARVAJAL

1907.

FINAL ACT OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE. THE FINAL ACT OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE, AND THE ANNEX ATTACHED THERETO, ADOPTED AT THE HAGUE DURING THE SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE.

The Second International Peace Conference, proposed in the first instance by the President of the United States of America, having been convoked, on the invitation of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, assembled on the 15th June, 1907, at The Hague, in the Hall of the Knights, for the purpose of giving a fresh development to the humanitarian principles which served as a basis for the work of the First Conference of 1899.

The following Powers took part in the Conference, and appointed the Delegates named below:

Germany:

His Excellency Baron Marschall de Bieberstein, Minister of
State, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, First Dele-
gate Plenipotentiary;

M. Kriege, Imperial Envoy on Extraordinary Mission at the pres-
ent Conference, Privy Councillor of Legation and Legal Adviser
to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Permanent
Court of Arbitration, Second Delegate Plenipotentiary;
Rear-Admiral Siegel, Naval Attaché to the Imperial Embassy
at Paris, Naval Delegate;

Major-General de Gündell, Quarter-Master General of the Gen-
eral Staff of the Royal Prussian Army, Military Delegate;
M. Zorn, Professor to the Faculty of Law at the University of
Bonn, Judicial Privy Councillor, Member of the Prussian
Upper Chamber, and Crown Syndic, Scientific Delegate;
M. Göppert, Councillor of Legation and Councillor attached to
the Department for Foreign Affairs, Assistant Delegate;
M. Retzmann, Lieutenant-Commander on the Naval General
Staff, Assistant Naval Delegate.

The United States of America:

His Excellency Mr. Joseph H. Choate, ex-Ambassador at Lon-
don, Ambassador Extraordinary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
His Excellency Mr. Horace Porter, ex-Ambassador at Paris,
Ambassador Extraordinary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
His Excellency Mr. Uriah M. Rose, Ambassador Extraordinary,
Delegate Plenipotentiary;
His Excellency Mr. David Jayne Hill, ex-Assistant Secretary of
State, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at
The Hague, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

Rear-Admiral Charles S. Sperry, ex-President of the Naval War
College, Minister Plenipotentiary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
Brigadier-General George B. Davis, Judge Advocate-General of
the United States' Army, Minister Plenipotentiary, Delegate
Plenipotentiary;

Mr. William I. Buchanan, ex-Minister at Buenos Ayres, ex-
Minister at Panamá, Minister Plenipotentiary, Delegate Pleni-
potentiary;

• Translation submitted by the Department of State to the Senate with second Hague conference treaties, February 27, 1908,

The United States of America-Continued.

Mr. James Brown Scott, Solicitor for the Department of State,
Technical Delegate;

Mr. Charles Henry Butler, Reporter of the Supreme Court,
Technical Delegate.

The Argentine Republic:

His Excellency M. Roque Saenz Peña, ex-Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
at Rome, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration,
Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency M. Luis M. Drago, ex-Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Deputy Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitra-
tion, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency M. Carlos Rodríguez Larreta, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

General Francisco Reynolds, Military Attaché at Berlin, Technical Delegate;

Captain Juan A. Martin, ex-Minister of Marine, Naval Attaché at London, Technical Delegate.

Austria-Hungary:

His Excellency M. Gaëten Mérey de Kapos-Mére, Privy Councillor of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, First Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency Baron Charles de Macchio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens, Second Delegate Plenipotentiary;

M. Henri Lammasch, Professor at the University of Vienna,
Aulic Councillor, Member of the Austrian Upper Chamber of
the Reichsrath, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitra-
tion, Scientic Delegate;

M. Antoine Haus, Rear-Admiral, Naval Delegate;
Baron Wladimir Giesl de Gieslingen, Major-General, Military
Plenipotentiary at the Imperial and Royal Embassy at Con-
stantinople and at the Imperial and Royal Legation at Athens,
Military Delegate;

The Chevalier Othon de Weil, Aulic and Ministerial Councillor
at the Ministry of the Imperial and Royal Household and of
Foreign Affairs, Delegate;

M. Jules Szilassy de Szilas et Pilis, Councillor of Legation,
Delegate;

M. Emile Konek de Norwall, Naval Lieutenant of the First
Class, Delegate Attached.

Belgium:

His Excellency M. A. Beernaert, Minister of State, Member of the
Chamber of Representatives, Member of the Institute of France
and of the Royal Academies of Belgium and Roumania, Honor-
ary Member of the Institute of International Law, Member of
the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
His Excellency M. J. van den Heuvel, Minister of State, ex-
Minister of Justice, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency Baron Guillaume, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, Member of the Royal
Academy of Roumania, Delegate Plenipotentiary.

Bolivia:

His Excellency M. Claudio Pinilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Permanent Court of Aribtration, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency M. Fernando E. Guachalla, Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Delegate Plenipotentiary.

Brazil:

His Excellency M. Ruy Barbosa, Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary, Vice-President of the Senate, Member of
the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Delegate Plenipoten-
tiary:

His Excellency M. Eduardo F. S. dos Santos Lisboa, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Pleniptentiary at The Hague,
Delegate Plenipotentiary;

Colonel Roberto Trompowsky Leitão de Almeida, Military At-
taché at The Hague, Technical Delegate;

Commander Tancredo Burlamaqui de Moura, Technical Delegate.

Bulgaria:

Major-General on the Staff Vrban Vinaroff, General à la suite,
First Delegate Plenipotentiary;

M. Ivan Karandjouloff, Procureur-Général of the Court of
Cassation, Second Delegate Plenipotentiary;

Commander S. Dimitrieff, Chief of the Staff of the Bulgarian
Flotilla, Delegate.

Chile:

His Excellency M. Domingo Gana, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Delegate Plenipoten-
tiary.
His Excellency M. Augusto Matte, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin, Delegate Plenipotentiary.
His Excellency M. Carlos Concha, ex-Minister of War, ex-
President of the Chamber of Deputies, ex-Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres, Delegate
Plenipotentiary.

China:

His Excellency Mr. Lu Tsêng-Tsiang, Ambassador Extraordinary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency the Honourable John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State at the United States' Department for Foreign Affairs, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency Mr. Tsien-Sun, Envoy Extraordinary and Min-
ister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, Delegate Plenipoten-
tiary;

Colonel W. S. Y. Tinge, Judge Advocate-General at the War
Office, Military Delegate;

Mr. Chang Ching Tong, Secretary of Legation, Assistant Dele-
gate;

Mr. Chao-Hi-Chiu, ex-Secretary of the Imperial Chinese Mission and Legation at Paris and Rome, Assistant Delegate. Colombia:

General Jorge Holguin, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
M. Santiago Perez Triana, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency General M. Vargas, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, Delegate Plenipotentiary.