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This Convention shall be ratified; its ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris as speedily as possible, and within one year at the latest.

In testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have thereunto affixed their seals.

Done in twenty-six copies, at Paris, this 14th day of March, 1884.

The stipulations of the Convention concluded this day for the protection of submarine cables shall be applicable, according to Article 1, to the colonies and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty with the exception of those named below, to wit: