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 effect 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. For Germany:
- 2. For the United States of America:
- Joseph H. Choate
- Horace Porter
- U. M. Rose
- David Jayne Hill
- C. S. Sperry
- William I. Buchanan
- 3. For Argentina:
- Luis M. Drago
- 4. For Austria-Hungary:
- Mérey
- Bon Macchio
- 5. For Belgium:
- A. Beernaert
- van den Heuvel
- Guillaume
- 6. For Bolivia:
- Claudio Pinilla
- 7. For Brazil:
- Ruy Barbosa
- E. Lisbôa
- 8. For Bulgaria:
- Général-Major Vinaroff
- Iv. Karandjouloff
- 9. For Chile:
- 10. For China:
- Lou Tseng-tsiang
- Tsien Sun
- 11. For Colombia:
- Jorge Holguin
- S. Perez Triana
- M. Vargas
- 12. For the Republic of Cuba:
- Antonio S. de Bustamante
- Gonzalo de Quesada
- Manuel Sanguily
- 13. For Denmark:
- 14. For the Dominican Republic:
- Dr. Henriquez y Carvajal
- Apolinar Tejera
- 15. For Ecuador:
- Victor M. Rendón
- E. Dorn y de Alsúa
- 16. For Spain:
- 17. For France:
- 18. For Great Britain:
- Edw. Fry
- Ernest Satow
- Reay
- Henry Howard
