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It shall be renewed tacitly from six years to six years unless denounced.

Denunciation must be notified in writing, at least one year 4 before the expiration of each of the periods mentioned in the 5 two preceding paragraphs, to the Netherland Government, 6 which will inform all the other Contracting Powers.

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Denunciation shall only take effect in regard to the Power 8 which has notified it. The Convention shall remain in force in 9 the case of the other Contracting Powers, provided that their 10 participation in the appointment of Judges is sufficient to allow 11 of the composition of the Court with nine Judges and nine 12 Deputy Judges.

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ARTICLE LVI.

In case the present Convention is not in operation as regards 15 all the Powers referred to in Article XV and the annexed Table, 16 the Administrative Council shall draw up a list on the lines of 17 that Article and Table of the Judges and Deputy Judges through 18 whom the Contracting Powers will share in the composition 19 of the Court. The times allotted by the said Table to Judges 20 who are summoned to sit in rota will be redistributed between 21 the different years of the six-year period in such a way that, as 22 far as possible, the number of the Judges of the Court in each 23 year shall be the same. If the number of Deputy Judges is 24 greater than that of the Judges, the number of the latter can 25 be completed by Deputy Judges chosen by lot among those 26 Powers which do not nominate a Judge.

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The list drawn up in this way by the Administrative Coun28 cil shall be notified to the Contracting Powers. It shall be 29 revised when the number of these Powers is modified as the 30 result of adhesions or denunciations.

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The change resulting from an adhesion is not made until the 1st January after the date on which the adhesion takes effect, 33 unless the adhering Power is a belligerent Power, in which case. 34 it can ask to be at once represented in the Court, the provision 35 of Article XVI being, moreover, applicable if necessary.

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36 When the total number of Judges is less than eleven, seven 37 Judges form a quorum.

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ARTICLE LVII.

Two years before the expiration of each period referred to 3 in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article LV any Contracting Power can demand a modification of the provisions of Article XV 5 and of the annexed Table, relative to its participation in the 6 composition of the Court. The demand shall be addressed to the Administrative Council, which will examine it and submit to all the Powers proposals as to the measures to be adopted. 9 The Powers shall inform the Administrative Council of their 10 decision with the least possible delay. The result shall be at once, and at least one year and thirty days before the expira12 tion of the said period of two years, communicated to the Power 13 which made the demand.

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

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Done at The Hague, the 18th October, 1907, in a single copy, 20 which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherland 21 Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent, 22 through the diplomatic channel, to the Powers designated in 23 Article XV and in the Table annexed.

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ANNEX TO ARTICLE XV.

Distribution of Judges and Deputy Judges by Countries for each Year of the period of Six Years.

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[Executive T, Sixtieth Congress, first session-Confidential.]

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.

FEBRUARY 27, 1908.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.

1 The Second International Peace Conference, proposed in the 2 first instance by the President of the United States of America, 3 having been convoked, on the invitation of His Majesty the 4 Emperor of All the Russias, by Her Majesty the Queen of the 5 Netherlands, assembled on the 15th June, 1907, at The Hague, 6 in the Hall of the Knights, for the purpose of giving a fresh 7 development to the humanitarian principles which served as a 8 basis for the work of the First Conference of 1899.

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The following Powers took part in the Conference, and 10 appointed the Delegates named below:

11 Germany:

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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 present 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
General Staff of the Royal Prussian Army, Military Dele-
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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 Dele-
gate;

M. Retzmann, Lieutenant-Commander on the Naval General
Staff, Assistant Naval Delegate.

10 The United States of America:

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His Excellency Mr. Joseph H. Choate, ex-Ambassador at
London, Ambassador Extraordinary, Delegate Plenipo-
tentiary;

His Excellency Mr. Horace Porter, ex-Ambassador at Paris,
Ambassador Extraordinary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;
His Excellency Mr. Uriah M. Rose, Ambassador Extraor-
dinary, Delegate Plenipotentiary;

His Excellency Mr. David Jayne Hill, ex-Assistant Secretary
of State, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary 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, Dele-
gate Plenipotentiary;

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;

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