ARTICLE 9.

The states non-signatories to the present convention shall be allowed to declare their accession to it by an act addressed to the Swiss Federal Council, who shall bring it to the notice of each of the other contracting states.

ARTICLE 10.

The time-limits laid down in Article 8 for the coming into force of the present convention shall be calculated in the case of non-signatory states, as well as of colonies, possessions, or protectorates, from the date of their accession.

ARTICLE 11.

It shall not be possible for the signatory states, or the states, colonies, possessions, or protectorates who may subsequently accede, to denounce the present convention before the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the protocol of the deposit of ratifications is closed.

Thenceforward the convention may be denounced from year to year. The denunciation shall only take effect after the lapse of one year from the time when written notice has been given to the Swiss Federal Council by the government concerned, or, in the case of a colony, possession, or protectorate, by the government of the mother-country. The Federal Council shall communicate the denunciation immediately to the governments of each of the other contracting states.

The denunciation shall only be operative as regards the state, colony, possession or protectorate on whose behalf it has been notified.

In witness whereof the plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention.

Done at Berne this twenty-sixth day of September, nineteen hundred and six, in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Swiss Confederation, and one copy of which, duly certified, shall be communicated to each of the contracting states through the diplomatic channel.

Subject to the declaration, with regard to Article 8, made at the full sitting of the conference on the 26th September, 1906.2

2 To the effect that Denmark would not be bound by the term fixed for ratification.

ANNEX.

RESOLUTION.

At the moment of proceeding to the signature of the convention respecting the night work of women, the delegates of Great Britain, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland, convinced of the utility of assuring the greatest possible uniformity in the regulations to be issued in conformity with the present convention, express the desire that any doubt which may remain as regards the various questions connected with the said convention may be submitted by one or several of the contracting parties to the consideration of a commission on which each co-signatory state would be represented by a delegate or by a delegate and assistant-delegates.

This commission would have a purely consultative character. In no circumstances would it be able to undertake any enquiry into or to interfere in any way in the administrative or other acts of the states concerned. The commission would make a report, which would be communicated to the contracting states, on the questions submitted to it.

The commission could further be called upon:

1. To give its opinion as to the equivalent provisions, on condition of which the accession of extra-European states, as well as of possessions, colonies, protectorates, might be accepted, in cases where the climate or the condition of the natives may necessitate modifications in the details. of the convention;

2. Without prejudice to the initiative of each contracting state, to serve as an instrument for a preliminary exchange of views, in cases where the high contracting parties are in agreement as to the utility of convening new conferences on the subject of the condition of the working classes.

The commission would meet at the request of one of the contracting states, but not more than once a year, save in the case of an agreement between the contracting states for a supplementary meeting owing to exceptional circumstances. It would meet successively in each of the capitals of the European contracting states in alphabetical order.

It would be understood that the contracting states would reserve to themselves the right of submitting to arbitration, in conformity with Article 16 of the Hague Convention, the questions which may be raised by the convention of to-day's date, even if they had been the subject of an expression of opinion by the commission.

The afore-mentioned delegates request the Swiss Government (who agree) to be good enough, until the protocol of the deposit of ratifications of the convention has been closed, to continue negotiations for the adhesion to the present resolution of states whose delegates have not signed it.

This resolution shall be converted into a convention by the contracting states, through the agency of the Swiss Government, as soon as it shall have received the concurrence of all the states signatories to the convention.

Berne, September 26, 1906. HERBERT SAMUEL.

MALCOLM DELEVINGNE.

H. VEDEL.

BERNARDO ALMÉIDA Y HERREROS.

RÉVOIL.

ARTHUR FONTAINE.

R. MAGLIANO.

G. MONTEMARTINI.

H. NEUMAN.

RECHTEREN.

L. H. W. REGOUT.

A. D'OLIVEIRA.

ALFR. LAGERHEIM.

E. FREY.

F. KAUFMANN.
A. LACHENAL.
SCHOBINGER.
H. SCHERRER.
JOHN SYZ.

NOTE: With regard to Article 8 of the convention providing for the deposit of ratifications by the 31st December, 1908, it has been agreed, as the result of correspondence between the states concerned, that the convention shall take effect on the 14th January, 1912, so far as regards those states which deposited their ratifications within the specified period, viz:

Great Britain, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and also in the case of those which, not having so deposited ratifications, subsequently acceded, viz:

Italy and Sweden.

In the case of the above accessions the convention will enter into effect, in accordance with Article 10, two years after the date of accession, as given above.

TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, BETWEEN SWEDEN AND CHINA, SIGNED AT PEKING, JULY 2, 1908, WITH THE ADDITIONAL ARTICLE SIGNED AT PEKING MAY 24, 1909.

His Majesty the King of Sweden and His Majesty the Emperor of China, desiring to maintain firm, lasting and sincere friendship and to extend further the commercial relations between their respective countries, and having resolved to conclude a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation, have for that purpose named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Majesty the King of Sweden:

Gustaf Oscar Wallenberg, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Peking, and

His Majesty the Emperor of China:

His Excellency Lien Fang, His Majesty's High Commissioner Plenipotentiary and Senior Vice-President of the Wai Wu Pu; Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles: