Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 59 Part 2.djvu/281

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For the Government of Peru: FELIPE PARDO. J. CHAMOT. ALFREDO FERREYROS. For the Government of Poland: EDWARD RACZYNSKI. For the Government of Portugal: LUiz FERREIRA DE CASTRO. For the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: N. BOGOMOLOV. For the Government of the United States of America: NORMAN H. DAVIS. (In respect of the Commonwealth of the Philippines): URBANO A. ZAFRA. For the Government of Yugoslavia: V. MILANOVITCH. Certified a true copy: [SEAL] STEPHEN GASELEE, LONDON Librarian and Keeper of the 8t June, 1937 Papersat the Foreign Office. AND WHEREAS it is provided in the said Agreement and likewise in the said protocol annexed thereto that texts thereof in the French, English, German, and Russian languages shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by whom certified copies will be communicated to all the signatory Governments, the four texts being equally authen- tic, and that pending the signature of the other texts, the signatures appended to the English text shall take effect as from the day of signature, namely, May 6, 1937; AND WHEREAS the Government of the United States of America has received from the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland certified copies of the said Agreement and of the said protocol annexed thereto in the English language only; AND WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of December 20 (legislative day of November 16), 1937, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Agreement and protocol, subject to the following reservation: "The separate statement, viz., 'I am instructed by my Govern- ment to state that, in the event that its existing legislation imposing quotas upon the importation and marketing of sugar lapses within the life of this Agreement, it will be its policy to maintain its tariff on full duty sugar at no higher rate than that now existing', made Ante, p. 941. Reservation by U. S . Government. 946 [59 STAT. TREATIES