Art. IV. Prisoners of war are prisoners of the enemy's government, and not of the individuals or corps who have captured them. They are to be treated with humanity. Everything which belongs to them personally, except arms, horses, and military papers, remains their property.

Art. V. Prisoners of war may be interned in any town, fortress, camp, or place whatsoever, under the obligation not to pass beyond certain fixed limits; but they may be confined only as an indispensable measure of security.

Art. VI. The state may employ prisoners of war as laborers, according to their rank and aptitude. These labors shall not be excessive, and shall have no connection with the operations of the war.

Prisoners may be authorized to be employed in the public administration, or by private individuals, or on their own account.

Work done for the state shall be paid for in accordance with the rates of pay allowed to military persons of the national army when engaged upon the same work. When work is done for other departments of the government, or for private individuals, the conditions of labor shall be regulated by agreement with the military authorities.

The pay of prisoners shall be employed to ameliorate their condition, and the surplus, after the expenses of their maintenance have been deducted, shall be paid over to them at the instant of their liberation.

Art. VII. The government in whose power prisoners of war happen to be is charged with their support. In the absence of a special understanding between the belligerents, prisoners of war shall be treated, in respect to food, lodging, and clothing, in the same way as the troops of the government which has captured them.

Art. VIII. Prisoners of war shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders in force in the army of the state in whose power they happen to be. Every act of insubordination authorizes, so far as they are concerned, a resort to the necessary measures of severity. Escaped prisoners, who are retaken before they shall have succeeded in rejoining their own army, or before quitting the territory occupied by the army which shall have captured them, are liable to disciplinary punishment. Prisoners who, after having succeeded in escaping, are again made prisoners, are not liable to any punishment for the previous escape.

Art. IX. Every prisoner of war, if interrogated on the subject, is required to declare his true name and rank, and, in case of infringement of this rule, he may be exposed to a restriction of the benefits accorded to prisoners of war of his class.

Art. X. Prisoners of war are to be liberated on parole, if the laws of their country authorize it, and, in such case, they are obliged, under the guarantee of their personal honor, to perform scrupulously, as well in relation to their own government as in regard to that which has made them prisoners, the engagements which they may have entered into. In the same case, their own government is to refrain from demanding or accepting any service from them contrary to the tenor of the paroles which they have given.

Art. XI. A prisoner of war cannot be compelled to accept his liberty on parole; nor is the enemy's government obliged to accede to the demand of a prisoner of war who claims his release on parole.

Art. XII. Every prisoner of war released on parole who subsequently takes up arms against, and is recaptured by, the government to which he has engaged his honor, or against its allies, forfeits the right to be treated as a prisoner of war and may be brought before its tribunals.

Art. XIII. Individuals who accompany an army without forming an integral part of it, such as correspondents and reporters of newspapers, sutlers and contractors, who fall into the hands of the enemy, and whom the latter deems it expedient to detain, are entitled to be treated as prisoners of war, on condition that they are provided with certificates of identity by the military authority of the army which they accompany.

Art. XIV. There shall be established at the outbreak of hostilities, in each of the belligerent states, and, if there be occasion, in neutral states which shall have received belligerents within their territories, a bureau of information in respect to prisoners of war. This bureau, which is charged with replying to all applications concerning prisoners, shall receive from the several branches of the service having jurisdiction of the same all the data necessary to establish the individual record of each prisoner of war. It is to be kept informed as to internments and changes, as well as to deaths and admissions to hospitals.

The bureau of information is also to receive, centralize, and transmit to the properly interested parties all articles of personal property, valuables, letters, etc., which shall have been found on the field of battle or left by deceased prisoners in ambulances and hospitals.

Art. XV. Societies for the relief of prisoners of war, regularly established under the laws of their respective countries, whose purpose it is to become the intermediaries of charitable action, shall receive on the part of belligerents, for themselves and for their duly credited agents, every facility within the limits prescribed by military necessity and the rules of administration to effectively accomplish their humane purpose. Delegates of these societies may be admitted to distribute aid in the depots of internment, as well in the halting-places of prisoners who are being sent back to their own country, by means of a personal permit, issued by proper military authority, and on condition that they take an engagement in writing to submit to all measures of discipline and police that may be prescribed by the latter.

Art. XVI. Bureaus of information shall be entitled to freedom of transport. Letters, or drafts, and sums of money, as well as postal packages addressed to prisoners of war, or sent by them, shall be exempt from all postal dues, not only in the countries of origin and destination, but also in intermediate countries. Charitable gifts and relief in kind destined for prisoners of war shall be admitted free of import duty, and shall be transported free of cost on railways operated by the state.

Art. XVII. Officers who are prisoners of war shall receive the portion, if any there be, of the pay allowed them, as prisoners of war, by the regulations of their own country, on condition that it be reimbursed by their own government.

Art. XVIII. Every latitude shall be allowed to prisoners of war for the free exercise of religious belief, in which shall be included the right to attend religious service, upon the single condition that they conform to the measures of discipline and police prescribed by the proper military authority.

Art. XIX. Wills of prisoners of war are accepted or drawn up on the same conditions as for soldiers of the national army. The same rules will be followed in all matters concerning documents relating to the identification of the deceased, and to the burial of prisoners of war, regard being had to their rank and grade.

Art. XX. After the conclusion of peace the return of prisoners of war to their own country shall be accomplished with the least possible delay.