INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT. MAY 18, 1904. 1979 Agreement between the United States and other Pmcers for the repreg. May 18,1904. sz0n of the trade in white women. Signed at Paris, May 18, 1904; ratification ad/vised by the Senate, Jllarch 1, 1.905; adhered to by the President, June 6, 1.908; proclaimed, June 15, 1908. ‘ Br mn Pansmnvr or mn Umrnn Snrns or Amnmcn. A PROCLAMATION. _ Whereas a project of arrangement for the suppression of the white ,,,*,$§,"f§§;}}‘m‘;§,““°` slave traflic was, on Jul 25, 1902, adopted for submission to their Ptelmble. ` respective Governments by the delegates of various Powers represented _ at the Paris Conference for the repression of the trade in white women; · And whereas, in pursuance of Article VII of the said project of arrangement, the Government of the United States was, on August 18, 1302, invited by the Government of the French Republic toadhere t ereto; , And whereas the Senate of the·United States, by its Resolution of March 1, 1905 (two—thirds of the Senators resent concurring therein) did advise and consent to the adhesion by the United States to the said project of arrangement; And whereas the stipulations of the said project of arran ment WG1'€, word for word, and without change, confirmed by a formaitigreement, signed at Paris on May 18, 190-I, by the Governments of Germany, Bel ium, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, the N etherlanci, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and the Swiss F ederal Council, a true copy of which agreement, in the French language, is hereto attached; And whereas the 1'atifications by the said Governments of the said agreement have been duly deposited with the Government of the I· rench Republic ; and the said agreement has been adhered to by the Governments of Austria-Hungary and Brazil ; And whereas the President of the United States of America, in A‘“*"°¤°°- pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, did, on the 6th day of June, 1908, declare that the United States adheres to the said agreement in confirmation of the said project of arrangement: Now, therefore, be it known, That I, Theodore Roosevelt, President Proclamation. of the United States of America, have caused the said agreement to be made public, to the end that the same, and everfy article and clause thereof, ma * be observed and fulnlled with good aith 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 aflixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 15th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of [SEAL.] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-second. Tmzooonn Roosnvmr. By the President: Roemzcr Braces Acting Secretany of State.
