Art. 10. The present convention shall be ratified and the ratification shall be exchanged at Berne, in four months, or sooner, if possible.
In witness thereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done at Geneva, the twenty-third day of August, 1864.
GOVERNMENTS ADOPTING THE TREATY.
List in chronological order of the governments which have adopted the articles of the Convention of Geneva, of the twenty-second of August, 1864:
| France | September | 22, 1864. |
| Switzerland | October | 1, 1864. |
| Belgium | October | 14, 1864. |
| Netherlands | November | 29, 1864. |
| Italy | December | 4, 1864. |
| Sweden and Norway | December | 13, 1864. |
| Denmark | December | 15, 1864. |
| Spain | December | 15, 1864. |
| Baden | December | 16, 1864. |
| Greece | January | 17, 1865. |
| Great Britain | February | 18, 1865. |
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin | March | 9, 1865. |
| Prussia | June | 22, 1865. |
| Turkey | July | 5, 1865. |
| Würtemberg | June | 2, 1866. |
| Hesse Darmstadt | June | 22, 1866. |
| Bavaria | June | 30, 1866. |
| Austria | July | 21, 1866. |
| Portugal | August | 9, 1866. |
| Saxony | October | 25, 1866. |
| Russia | May | 22, 1867. |
| Pontifical States | May | 9, 1868. |
| Roumania | November | 30, 1874. |
| Persia | December | 5, 1874. |
| San Salvador | December | 30, 1874. |
| Montenegro | November | 29, 1875. |
| Servia | March | 24, 1876. |
| Bolivia | October | 16, 1879. |
| Chili | November | 15, 1879. |
| Argentine Republic | November | 25, 1879. |
| Peru | April | 22, 1880. |
| United States | March | 1, 1882. |
| Bulgaria | March | 1, 1884. |
| Japan | June | 5, 1886. |
| Luxemburg | October | 5, 1888. |
| Hungary | —— |
| Congo Free State | December | 27, 1888. |
| Venezuela | | 1894. |
| Siam | June | 29, 1895. |
| South African Republic | September | 30, 1896. |
| Honduras | May | 16, 1898. |
| Nicaragua | May | 16, 1898. |
The following public address, written in 1881, is inserted because of its historical character, showing as it does, quite as well as anything that could now be written, the general apathy in America concerning the treaty, and the many obstacles that had to be overcome by years of struggle and weary waiting:
ADDRESS BY CLARA BARTON.
To the President, Congress, and People of the United States: