Ratifcation. AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article 19 thereof that the said Agreement shall come into force upon the deposit with the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of instruments of ratification by a majority of the signatory Govern- ments, which shall include the Governments of the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway; Deposit of ratifica- AND WHEREAS the said Agreement has been duly ratified on the tions. parts of a majority of the signatory Governments, including the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Germany and Norway, that is to say by the Governments of the United States of America, Germany, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ireland and Norway, and their respective instruments of ratification have been deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,l the latest on the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, on which day the said Agreement came into force in accordance with Article 19 thereof; Proclamation. Now, THREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Agree- ment for the Regulation of Whaling 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 ESTIrONY WERMEOF, 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 eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sEAL] thirty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 'On February 8, 1938, notification of adherence to the agreement for the regulation of whaling was given by Mexico to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1466 TREATIES [52 STAT.
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