1920 CONVENTION AS TO AFRICA. JUNE 8, 1899. gie ppeparation of the Protocol of Deposit mentioned in the preceding rtic e. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed their seals thereto. Done at Brussels, the eighth day of the month of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Signatures. (Signed) ALVENSLEBEN. GOHRINC. Baron LAMBERMONT. A. VAN MALDEGHDM. W. R. DE VILLA-URRUTIA. P. DE SMET DE NAEYER. H. DnooeMANs. · A. GFIRARD. F. R. PLUNKETT. H. FARNALL. R. CANTAGALLI. R. DE PEs·I·nI.. Comte DE TOVAR. N. DE Gmizs. AUG. F. GLYDENSTOLPE. Er. CARATHEODORY. nmiamuou. And whereas, the several contracting parties, with the exception of Turkey, have, in accordance with Article IV of the said Convention, deposited their ratiiications of the said Convention in the archives of ~ the Kingdom of Belgium; And whereas the several States hereinafter named have adhered to the said Convention, in virtue of its Article HI: Denmark, July 22, 1899; Persia, August 27, 1899; Austria-Hungary, January 29, 1900; Liberia, April 17, 1900; And whereas the Government of Belgium, in virtue of the said Article IH of said Convention, has invited the United States of America to adhere to the said Convention; And whereas the President of the United States of America, by and with the consent of the Senate thereof, did, on the 1st day of February, 1901, declare that the United States adhere to the said Convention; " Now, therefore, be it known, that I, William McKinley, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the_United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aihxed. Done at the City of Washington this 6th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth. [SEAL.] WILLIAM MCKINLEY By the President: DAVID J. HILL, Acting Secretary of State.
