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CHAPTER VI.
FINAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE 22. The powers not represented at the conference shall be permitted to sign the present convention.
To this end, the Netherlands Government shall invite, immediately after the convention shall have been signed by the plenipotentiaries of the powers who have taken part in the conference, all the powers of Europe and of America not represented at the conference, to wit, the Argentine Republic; Austria-Hungary; Belgium; Bolivia; Brazil; Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia; Costa Rica; Republic of Cuba; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Republic of Ecuador; Spain; Greece; Guate- mala; Republic of Haiti Honduras; Luxemburg; Mexico; Monte- negro; Nicaragua, Norway; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Roumania; Salvador: Servia; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Uruguay; United States of Venezuela, to designate a delegate armed with the full powers necessary for the signing of the convention at The Hague.
The convention shall be furnished with these signatures by means of a Protocol of signature of powers not represented at the confer- ence," to be added after the signatures of the powers represented and indicating the date of each signature.
The Netherlands Government shall give notice every month, to all the signatory powers, of each supplementary signature.
ARTICLE 23. After all the powers, as much for themselves as for their possessions, colonies, protectorates, and leased territories, shall have signed the convention, or the supplementary protocol herein- before indicated, the Netherlands Government shall invite the powers to ratify the convention together with this protocol.
In case the signature of all the powers invited shall not have been secured by December 31, 1912, the Netherlands Government shall immediately invite all the powers who have signed by that date to designate delegates to proceed to The Hague to examine into the possibility of nevertheless depositing their ratifications.
Ratification shall be executed within as short a time as possible and shall be deposited at once at The Hague in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The Netherlands Government shall give notice every month to the signatory powers of the ratifications which it shall have received in the interval.
As soon as the ratifications of all the signatory powers, as much for themselves as for their colonies, possessions, protectorates, and leased territories, shall have been received by the Netherlands Government, this government shall give notice to all the powers who shall have ratified the convention of the date on which the last of such acts of ratification shall have been received.
ARTICLE 24. The present convention shall go into effect three months after the date mentioned in the Netherlands Government's notification, as indicated in the last paragraph of the preceding article.
With regard to the laws, regulations, and other measures provided for by the present convention, it is agreed that the drafts necessary to this end shall be drawn up not later than six months after the going into effect of the convention. With regard to the laws, these
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shall also be proposed by the governments to their parliaments or legislative bodies within this same period of six months, and in any case at the first session which shall follow the expiration of this period.
The date from which these laws, regulations, or measures shall go into effect shall be the subject of an agreement between the signatory powers, at the instance of the Netherlands Government.
In case questions shall arise relative to the ratification of the present convention, or relative to the going into effect of the con- vention, or of the laws, regulations, and measures which such conven- tion involves, the Netherlands Government, if these questions can not be decided by other means, shall invite all the signatory powers to designate delegates who shall assemble at The Hague to come to an immediate agreement on these questions.
ARTICLE 25. If it should happen that one of the contracting powers should wish to denounce the present convention, such denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Netherlands Government, who shall immediately communicate a certified copy in conformity with such notification to all the other powers, informing them at the same time as to the date on which it received such notification.
The denunciation shall have no effect except with respect to the power who shall have given notice thereof and one year after such notice shall have reached the Netherlands Government.
In witness whereof the plenipotentiaries have affixed their signa- tures to the present convention.
Done at The Hague, January 23, 1912, in one single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the Netherlands and copies of which, certified in conformity, shall be delivered through diplomatic channels to all the powers represented at the conference.
For Germany:
F. DE MÜLLER. DELBRUCK. GRUNENWALD,
For the United States of America:
For China:
For France:
For Great Britain:
For Italy:
For Japan:
CHARLES H. BRENT, HAMILTON WRIGHT, HENRY J. FINGER.
LIANG CHENG.
H. BRENIER.
W. S. MEYER.
W. G. MAX MÜLLER. WILLIAM JOB COLLINS.
G. DE LA TOUR CALVELLO.
AIMARO SAto.
TOMOE TAKAGI. KOTARO NISHIZAKI.