3662 REGISTRATION OF TREATIES. inasmuch as registered treaties are published in the order of regis- tration, the exact date at which a treaty appears in the "Treaty Series" necessarily depends on the progress made in producing the Series. I further understand that in cases of this character a simple acknowledgment of the request for registration, and not a formal certificate of registration, is addressed by the Secretariat to the gov- ernment presenting a treaty for registration, in view of the fact that the registration is not legally obligatory. I take pleasure in informing you that my Government will be glad in accordance with the memorandum approved by the Council of the League on May 19, 1920 and in accordance with the under- standings expressed in your letter which I have recapitUlated above, to furnish the Secretariat through the American Minister at Bern for the purpose of registration and publication a certified copy of each international agreement to which the United States shall here- after become a party. I am, my dear Mr. McKinnon Wood, Yours very sincerely, H. McKINNON WOOD, Esquire, Legal Section, League of Nations, Geneva. (No. 70] PRENTISS GILBERT
