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. rique:

HORACE PORTER.
U. M. ROSE.
DAVID JAYNE HILL.
C. S. SPERRY.

WILLIAM I. BUCHANAN. 3. Pour l'Argentine:

Luis M. DRAGO. 4. Pour l'Autriche-Hongrie: MÉREY.

Bon MACCHIO. 5. Pour la Belgique:

A. BEERNAERT.
VAN DEN HEUVEL.

GUILLAUME. 6. Pour la Bolivie:

CLAUDIO PINILLA. 7. Pour le Brésil:

RUY BARBOSA.

E. LISBOA. 8. Pour la Bulgarie:

GÉNÉRAL-MAJOR VINAROFT.

Iv. KARANDJOULOFF. 9. Pour Chili: 10. Pour la Chine:

LOUTSENGTSIANG.

TSIENSUN. 11. Pour la Colombie:

JORGE HOLGUIN.
S. PEREZ TRIANA.

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

GONZALO DE QUESADA.

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13. Pour le Danemark:
14. Pour la République Domini. DR. HENRIQUEZ Y CARVAJAL
caine:

APOLINAR TEJERA. 15. Pour l'Equateur:

VICTOR M. RENDÓN.

E. DORN Y DE ALSús.
16. Pour l'Espagne:
17. Pour la France:
18. Pour la Grande-Bretagne: Edw. FRY.

ERNEST SATow.
REAY.

HENRY HOWARD. 19. Pour la Grèce:

CLÉON Rizo RANGABÉ.

GEORGES STREIT.
20. Pour le Guatémala :
21. Pour le Haïti:

DALBÉMAR JN JOSEPH,
J. N. LÉGER.

PIERRE HUDICOURT.
22. Pour l'Italie:
23. Pour le Japon:
24. Pour le Luxembourg:

EYSCHEN.

CTE, DE VILLERS. 25. Pour le Mexique: 26. Pour le Monténegro: 27. Pour le Nicaragua: 28. Pour la Norvège :

F. HAGERUP. 29. Pour le Panama:

B. PORRAS.
30. Pour le Paraguay:
31. Pour les Pays-Bas:

W. H. DE BEAUFORT.
T. M. C. ASSER.
DEN BEER POORTUGAEL
J. A. RÖELL

J. A. LOEFF. 32. Pour le Pérou:

C. G. CANDAMO. 33. Pour la Perse:

MOMTAZOS-SALTANEH M. SAMAD

KHAN.
SADIGH UL MULK M. AHMED

KHAN. 34. Pour le Portugal:

MARQUIS DE SOVERAL.
CONDE DE SÉLIR.

ALBERTO D'OLIVEIRA,
35. Pour la Roumanie:
36. Pour la Russie:
37. Pour le Salvador:

P. J. MATHEU.

S. PEREZ TRIANA.
38. Pour la Serbie:
39. Pour le Siam:

Mom CHATIDEJ UDOM.
C. CORRAGIONI D'ORELLI.

LUANG BHUVANARTH NARÜBAL. 40. Pour la Suède: 41. Pour la Suisse:

CARLIN. 42. Pour la Turquie:

TURKHAN. 43. Pour l'Uruguay:

José BATLLE Y ORDOÑEZ, 44. Pour le Vénézuela:

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 Delegate 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 Attachế 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 PleniThe 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 Arbitra

tion, Delegate Plenipotentiary; General Francisco Reynolds, Military Attaché at Berlin, Tech

nical 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 Coun

cillor of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Ambas-
sador 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, Honorary 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 Af.

fairs, Member of the Permanent Court of Aribtration, Dele

gate Plenipotentiary; His Excellency M. Fernando E. Guachalla, Minister Plenipo

tentiary 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 Plenipotentiary: His Excellency M. Eduardo F. S. dos Santos Lisbôa, 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 Dele-

gate. 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 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres, Delegate

Plenipotentiary. China:

His Excellency Mr. Lụ Tsêng-Tsiang, Ambassador Extraordi

nary, 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 Mis-

sion 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.