Art. LVIII. This Convention shall be ratified with the briefest possible delay. The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague. On the deposit of each ratification a minute shall be drawn up, of which one copy, properly certified, shall be transmitted, through diplomatic channels, to each of the other powers represented at the International Peace Conference at The Hague.

Art. LIX. Non-signatory powers who were represented at the International Peace Conference may become parties to this Convention. To that end they shall make known their adhesion to the contracting powers by means of a notification in writing addressed to the Government of the Netherlands, by whom it shall be communicated to each of the other contracting powers.

Art. LX. The conditions in accordance with which powers not represented at the International Peace Conference at The Hague may become parties shall form the subject of a subsequent convention between the contracting powers.

Art. LXI. It it should happen that one of the high contracting powers should disavow this Convention, such disavowal shall become operative only one year after the notification thereof shall have been made in writing to the government of the Netherlands, and immediately communicated by it to each of the other contracting powers. The disavowal shall only affect the notifying power.

Done at The Hague this 29th day of July, 1899, in an original which shall remain on deposit in the archives of the government of the Netherlands, and of which certified copies shall be transmitted, through diplomatic channels, to each of the contracting powers.