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Opening address by his Excellency Mr. de Beaufort, Minister for Foreign Affairs 13
Address of his Excellency Mr. Staal, first delegate of Russia, president of the Conference
Constitution of the bureau and the secretariat .

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ANNEX. Table of the division of delegates into commissions

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Fourth Meeting (June 20, 1899)

27

Filing of the report of the Second Commission (adaptation to maritime warfare of the

principles of the Geneva Convention)

Adoption of the 10 articles of the draft Convention .

Declaration of Mr. Motono, delegate of Japan.

Declaration of Mr. Delyanni, first delegate of Greece

Declaration of the Ottoman delegation.

Designation of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act of the Conference.

ANNEX. Report of Mr. L. Renault, in the name of the Second Commission

Fifth Meeting (July 5, 1899) .

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Filing and adoption of the report of the Second Commission (regulation of the laws

and customs of war)

Adoption of a vau expressed by the first delegate of Luxemburg, relative to the ques-
tion of the rights and duties of neutrals .

Adoption of a vou relative to the bombardment of undefended ports .

Declaration of abstention of Sir J. Pauncefote, first delegate of England .
Adoption of a vœu relative to the revision of the Geneva Convention.

7 Discussion of a vau presented by the delegation of the United States relative to the

inviolability of private property in time of naval war

Address of Mr. White, first delegate of the United States .

Declaration of Count Nigra, first delegate of Italy.

7 Adoption of the vau relative to the reference to a subsequent Conference of the

American proposal .

Nomination of new members of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act

ANNEX I. Report of Mr. Rolin, in the name of the Second Commission .

ANNEX II. Draft Convention in 60 articles

Sixth Meeting (July 21, 1899) .

Thanks of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia for the condolence transmitted by the

Conference on the occasion of the death of His Imperial Highness the Grand

Duke Heir Apparent

Examination of the report of the First Commission

Proposal of Captain Crozier, delegate of the United States .

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Discussion of this proposal (Messrs. Gilinsky, van Karnebeek, den Beer Poortugael)

1 Address of Mr. White .

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7 Rejection of the proposal of Captain Crozier

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Adoption of the report of the First Commission .

ANNEX. Report of Mr. van Karnebeek, in the name of the First Commission

Withdrawal by the delegation of the United States of its additional proposals to the

draft Convention prepared by the Second Commission (Red Cross)

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88

Seventh Meeting (July 25, 1899) .

Adoption of the modification of Article 53

Proposal of Sir J. Pauncefote concerning Article 53 (shore ends of cables)
Declaration of Mr. Bille, first delegate of Denmark.

Filing and adoption of the report of the Third Commission (pacific settlement of
international disputes)

Declaration of Sir J. Pauncefote

Oral report of Mr. Renault in the name of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act. 101

Adoption of draft of the Final Act .

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Declaration of Mr. Odier, delegate of Switzerland

Address of his Excellency Count Nigra .

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105

Reply of Mr. van Karnebeek

105

ANNEX. Report of Chevalier Descamps, in the name of the Third Commission,

with annexes

106

106

Oral report of Mr. Renault in the name of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act. 207

Adoption of the drafts of preamble and final provisions of the Conventions and

Declarations

209

Oral report of Mr. Renault in the name of the Drafting Committee of the Final Act. 215

Adoption of the draft of the preamble and final provisions of the Convention for the

pacific settlement of international disputes .

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217

Report of Mr. van Karnebeek in the name of the Correspondence Commission

Adoption of the report .

ANNEX. Nomenclature of sovereigns and rulers of States in the order adopted by the

Conference to serve as preamble to the acts.

219

Tenth Meeting (July 29, 1899)

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Closing meeting

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Table of signatures affixed to the Final Act, Conventions and Declarations .

Reading of a letter from Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands to His Holi-

ness the Pope .

Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes

Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva

Convention.

Convention respecting the laws and customs of war on land.

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Declaration relative to the prohibition of balls which expand in the human body.

Declaration relative to the prohibition of the throwing of projectiles from balloons 264

Declaration relative to the prohibition of the employment of asphyxiating projectiles . 266

Table of signatures affixed up to December 31, 1899, to the Conventions and Declarations 268

Discussion and vote on the conclusions of the report presented by General den Beer

Poortugael in the name of the first subcommission

276

Declaration of General Sir John Ardagh on the subject of the bullets called

"dumdum "

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Discussion and vote on the first conclusions of the report presented by Count Soltyk,

Captain of Corvette, in the name of the second subcommission .

282

Discussion and votes on the last conclusions of the report presented by Count Soltyk,

Captain of Corvette, in the name of the second subcommission

298

Examination of the first proposition in the circular of his Excellency Count Mouravieff 299

Address of his Excellency Mr. Staal .

300

Address of Mirza Riza Khan, Arfa-ud-Dovleh, first delegate of Persia .

Proposals formulated by Colonel Gilinsky and Captain Scheine .

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305, 306

Fifth Meeting (June 26, 1899)

307

General discussion of the first proposition of the circular of his Excellency Count

Mouravieff

308

Vote on the reference of the Russian proposals to a technical examination in the

subcommissions

313

Report presented in the name of the first subcommission on the proposals of Colonel

Gilinsky

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Address of Baron Bildt, first delegate of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway 316

Address and proposal of Mr. Léon Bourgeois, first delegate of France .

317

Report presented in the name of the second subcommission on the subject of the pro-

posals of Captain Scheine.

320

Discussion and vote on the draft of the report presented to the Conference by Jonkheer

van Karnebeek in the name of the First Commission.

323

Declaration made by Captain Mahan in the name of the Government of the United

States of America .

327

Eighth Meeting (July 20, 1899)

328

Discussion and vote on the draft of the report of the First Commission (see Plenary

meeting of July 21, Annex)

328

B. FIRST SUBCOMMISSION

His Excellency Mr. Beernaert presiding

First Meeting (May 26, 1899)

331

Russian proposal on the question of guns

Declarations of the different delegations upon the proposal of Colonel Gilinsky

331

Discussion and vote on the second part of the third proposition of the circular of

his Excellency Count Mouravieff

341

Declaration of the delegation of the Netherlands

341

Third Meeting (May 31, 1899)

343

Discussion upon the formula proposed by the delegates of France, of Roumania and

of Russia, relative to bullets

343

Vote on the proposal of Colonel Count Barantzew

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