"The engagement not to take part during hostilities in any service connected with the operations of the war is understood to include service on land in the arsenals, or in the army, or in any other military or naval duty as well as service on board a ship of war." Deux. Conf. Int. de la Paix, vol. I, p. 268.' CHAPITRE IV.-Dispositions finales. ARTICLE 9. Les dispositions de la présente Convention ne sont applicables qu'entre les Puissances contractantes et seulement si les belligérants sont tous Parties à la Convention. ARTICLE 10. La Présente Convention sera ratifiée aussitôt que possible. Les ratifications seront déposées à La Haye. Le premier dépôt de ratifications sera constaté par un procèsverbal signé par les représentants des Puissances qui y prennent part et par le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères des Pays-Bas. Les dépôts ultérieurs de ratifications se feront au moyen d'une notification écrite adressée au Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et accompagnée de l'instrument de ratification. Copie certifiée conforme du procès-verbal relatif au premier dépôt de ratifications, des notifications mentionnées à l'alinéa précédent ainsi que des instruments de ratification, sera immédiatement remise par les soins du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et par la voie diplomatique aux Puissances conviées à la Deuxième Conférence de la Paix, ainsi qu'aux autres Puissances qui auront adhéré à la Convention. Dans les cas visés par l'alinéa précédent, ledit Gouvernement leur fera connaître en même temps la date à laquelle il a reçu la notification. ARTICLE 11. Les Puissances non signataires sont admises à adhèrer à la présente Convention. CHAPTER IV.-Final Provisions. ARTICLE 9. The provisions of the present Convention are applicable only between Contracting Powers, and only if all the belligerents are parties to the Convention. ARTICLE 10. The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague. The first deposit of ratifications shall be recorded in a procèsverbal signed by the Representatives of the Powers taking part therein and by the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs. Subsequent deposits of ratifications shall be made by means of a of a written notification,addressed to the Netherlands Government and accompanied by the instrument of ratification. A duly certified copy of the procès-verbal relative to the first deposit of ratifications, of the notifications mentioned in the preceding paragraph, as well as of the instruments of ratification, shall be at once sent by the Netherlands Government, through the diplomatic channel, to the Powers invited to the Second Peace Conference, as well as to the other Powers which shall have adhered to the Convention. In the cases contemplated in the preceding paragraph, the said Government shall inform them at the same time of the date on which it received the notification. ARTICLE 11. Non-Signatory Powers may adhere to the present Convention. dépôt des ratifications effectué en vertu de l'article 10 alinéas 3 et 4, ainsi que la date à laquelle auront été reçues les notifications d'adhésion (article 11 alinéa 2) ou de dénonciation (article 13 alinéa 1). Chaque Puissance contractante est admise à prendre connaissance de ce registre et à en demander des extraits certifiés conformes. En foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires ont revêtu la présente Convention de leurs signatures. Fait à La Haye, le dix-huit octobre mil neuf cent sept, en un seul exemplaire qui restera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et dont des copies, certifiées conformes, seront remises par la voie diplomatique aux Puissances qui ont été conviées à la Deuxième Conférence de la Paix. Certifié pour copie conforme: Le Secrétaire-Général du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères des Pays-Bas. HANNEMA. of ratifications made in virtue of Article 10, paragraphs 3 and 4, as well as the date on which the notifications of adherence (Article 11, paragraph 2) or of denunciation (Article 13, paragraph 1) have been received." Each Contracting Power is entitled to have access to this register and to be supplied with duly certified extracts from it. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present Convention. Done at The Hague, the 18th October, 1907, in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherlands Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to the Powers invited to the Second Peace Conference. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Governments of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Great Britain, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Salvador, and the ratifications of the said Governments were, under the provisions of Article 10 of the said Convention, deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the Netherlands Government on November 27, 1909; Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony 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 twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL.] and ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. WM. H. TAFT By the President: P. C. KNOX Secretary of State. XIII. CONVENTION CONCERNING THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NEUTRAL POWERS IN MARITIME WAR. Adherence advised by the Senate April 17, 1908, with reservation as to Article 23. Adherence declared by the President of the United States February 23, 1909. Act of adherence deposited with the Netherlands Government November 27, 1909. Proclaimed February 28, 1910. Ratified by Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, with reservation as to articles 12, 13, and 20, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Salvador, Sweden, Switzerland. Adhered to by China and Haiti. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers in naval war was concluded and signed at The Hague on October 18, 1907, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of Germany, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela, the original of which Convention, being in the French language, is word for word as follows: |