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55 STAT.] GREAT BRITAIN-PROPERTY-MAY 27, 1936 deemed to mean (a) in relation to His Majesty the King, all subjects of His Majesty and all persons under His Majesty's protection belonging to territories to which the Convention applies, (b) in relation to the United States of America all citizens of the United States and all persons enjoying the protection of the United States belonging to territories under the authority of the United States to which the Convention applies." ARTICLE II The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof and by His Majesty the King. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington and the Convention shall take effect as from the date of the exchange of ratifications. In witness whereof the above mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six. For the United States of America: CORDELL HULL For Great Britain and Northern Ireland: R. C. LINDSAY For the Commonwealth of Australia: R. C. LINDSAY For the Dominion of New Zealand: R. C. LINDSAY [SEAL] [SEAL] [SEAL] [SEAL] AND WHEREAS the said supplementary convention has been duly ratified on both parts and the respective ratifications were duly exchanged in the city of Washington on the tenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said supplementary 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 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 seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State Exchange of ratifi- cations. 1103 Effective date.