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Art. 13. 
Those States which have not participated in the present 
Convention may join the same, if they wish to do so. Any 
such intention must be diplomatically communicated to the 
Government of the French Republic and by the same to the 
Governments of the other signatory Powers. 
Art. 14. 
The present Convention shall come in force at latest within 
a year from the date of the interchanging of papers. 
It remains in force for all the signatory Powers for an 
indefinite period. Should any one of the same withdraw, such 
withdrawal does not affect the other Powers, and comes in 
force only one year from the day on which the withdrawal 
was brought to the notice of the other signatory States. 
Art. 15. 
The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratified 
documents shall be interchanged at Paris within the shortest 
time possible. 
[Art. 16. 
The enforcing of the measures contained in the second 
paragraph of Clause 8 of the present Convention may be 
dispensed with exceptionally in the Northern provinces of 
Sweden, owing to the absolutely peculiar climatic conditions 
of those regions].^ 
In confirmation of which the respective plenipotentiaries 
^ Absolutely new addition : v. supra. 
