CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Article XXXVI.
The Powers signatory to the present general Act reserve to themselves the right of eventually, by mutual agreement, introducing therein modifications or improvements, the utility of which has been shown by experience.
Article XXXVII.
The Powers who may not have signed the present Act shall accept its provisions by a separate Act.
The adhesion of each Power shall be notified in the usual diplomatic manner to the Government of the German Empire, and by it to those of all the signatory and adherent States.
The adhesion shall imply the full right of acceptance of all the obligations, and admission to all the advantages stipulated for in the present general Act.
Article XXXVIII.
The present general Act shall be ratified with as short a delay as possible, and in no case shall that delay exceed a year.