Art. 38. The honor and rights of the family, the life and property of individuals, as well as their religious convictions and the exercise of their religion, should be respected.
Art. 39. Pillage is expressly forbidden.
Chapter II. Of Requisitions and Contributions
Art. 40. As private property should be respected, the enemy will demand from parishes or the inhabitants, only such payments and services as are connected with the necessities of war generally acknowledged in proportion to the resources of the country, and which do not imply, with regard to the inhabitants, the obligation of taking part in the operations of war against their own country.
Art. 41. The enemy, in levying contributions, whether as equivalent for taxes (see Art. 5), or for payments which should be made in kind, or as fines, will proceed, as far as possible, according to the rules of the distribution and assessment of the taxes in force in the occupied territory.
The civil authorities of the legal Government will afford their assistance, if they have remained in office.
Contributions can be imposed only on the order and on the responsibility of the General in chief, or of the superior civil authority established by the enemy in the occupied territory.
For every contribution a receipt shall be given to the person furnishing it.
Art. 42. Requisitions shall be made only by the authority of the commandant of the locality occupied.
For every requisition an indemnity shall be granted, or a receipt given.