CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS

ENGLISH-FRENCH-GERMAN

OF ST. PETERSBURG,

1868 - OF THE HAGUE, 1899 CONVENTION OF GENEVA,
1906 2D PEACE CONFERENCE, THE HAGUE, 1907
DECLARATION OF LONDON, 1909)

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CONTENTS.

I. DECLARATION OF PARIS, April 16, 1856.

II. DECLARATION OF ST. PETERSBURG (Nov. 29-Dec. 11, 1868.)

III. DECLARATION relative to projectiles diffusing deleterious gases.

The Hague, 29 July, 1899.

IV. DECLARATION relative to expanding bullets. The Hague, 29

July 1899.

V. CONVENTION for the amelioration of the condition of the woun-

ded and sick in armies in the field. Geneva, 6 July 1908.

VI. CONVENTION for the pacific settlement of international disputes.

2d Peace Conference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907. I.

VII. CONVENTION respecting the limitation of the employment of

force for the recovery of contract debts. 2d peace Conference,

the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907. II.

VIII. CONVENTION relative to the opening of hostilities. 2d peace Con-

ference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907. III.

IX. CONVENTION concerning the laws and customs of war on land.

2d peace Conference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907. IV.

X. CONVENTION respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers

and persons in war on land. 2d peace Conference, the Hague,

18 Oct. 1907. V.

XI. CONVENTION relative to the status of enemy merchant-ships at

the outbreak of hostilities. 2d. peace Conference, the Hague,

18 Oct. 1907. VI.

XII. CONVENTION relative to the conversion of merchant-ships into

war-ships. 2d peace Conference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907.

VII.

XIII. CONVENTION relative to the laying of automatic submarine

contact mines. 2d peace Conference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907.

VIII.

XIV. CONVENTION respecting bombardments by naval forces in

time of war. 2d peace Conference, the Hague, 18 Oct. 1907.

IX.

XV. CONVENTION for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva

Convention to maritime warfare. 2d peace Conference, the

Hague, 18 Oct. 1907. X.

XVI. CONVENTION relative to certain restrictions on the exercise of

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