TREATY-NAVAL ARMAMENT LDlITATION. APRIL 22,1930. 2885 AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article 24 of the said Treaty that tI Deposit or ratlflca- as soon as the ratifications of the United States of America, of His o~~, p. 2882. Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of each and all of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations as enumerated in the praamble of the said Treaty, and of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, have been deposited, the Treaty shall come into force in respect of the said High Contracting Parties; AND WHEREAS the ratification by the United StA.tes of America, Secret interpretation, subject to the understandings, set forth therein, that there are no e~~atirication .condi. secret files, documents, letters, understandings or agreements which TarmstroBot (talk) 'edonnC'ne:nstence in any way, directly or indirectly, modify, change, add to, or take from any of the stipulations, agreements or statements in said Treaty, and that excepting the agreement brought about through the ex- change of notes between the Governments of the United States of Ante, p. 2879. America, Great Britain and Japan having reference to Article 19, there is no agreement, secret or otherwise, expressed or implied, between any of the parties to said Treaty as to any construction that shall hereafter be given to any statement or provision contained therein, the ratifications by His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North- ern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate members of the League of Nations, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and India, and the ratification by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, were deposited at London on the 27th day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and the ratification by His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British DOIninions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Irish Free State, was deposited at London on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty; AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has thus come into force in re- spect of the United States of America, His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyund the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; NOW, THEREFORE, he it known that I, Herbert Hoover, Pres- Proclamation. ident of the United States of America, havf, caused the said Treaty 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 of America and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty- [SEAL] one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER
