tional flag. An arm-badge(brassard) shall also be allowed for individuals neutralized, but the delivery thereof shall be left to military authority.
The flag and the arm-badge shall bear a red cross on a white ground.
Article 8
The details of execution of the present convention shall be regulated by the commanders-in-chief of belligerent armies, according to the instructions of their respective governments, and in conformity with the general principles laid down in this convention.
Article 9
The high contracting Powers have agreed to communicate the present convention to those Governments which have not found it convenient to send plenipotentiaries to the International Conference at Geneva, with an invitation to accede thereto; the protocol is for that purpose left open.
Article 10
The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Berne, in four months, or sooner, if possible.
In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it and have affixed their seals thereto.
Done at Geneva, the twenty-second day of the month of August of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
- [For the Swiss Confederation:]
- Genl. G. H. Dufour[seal]
- G. Moynier[seal]
- Dr. Lehmann[seal]
- [For Baden:]
- Dr. Robert Volz[seal]
- Steiner[seal]
- [For Belgium:]
- Visschers[seal]
- [For Denmark:]
- Fenger[seal]
- [For Spain:]
- J. Heriberto García de Quevedo[seal]
- [For France:]
- Ch. Jagerschmidt[seal]
- S. de Préval[seal]
- Boudier[seal]
- [For Hesse:]
- Brodrück[seal]
- [For Italy:]
- Capello[seal]
- F. Baroffio[seal]
- [For the Netherlands:]
- Westenberg[seal]
- [For Portugal:]
- M. José Antonio Marques[seal]
- [For Prussia:]
- de Kamptz[seal]
- Lœffler[seal]
- Ritter[seal]
- [For Württemberg:]
- Dr. Hahn[seal]
