Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 3.djvu/872

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3488 Notification of entry Into force. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. 3. On the coming into force of this Instrument, the Director- General of the International Labour Office shall so notify all the Members of the International Labour Organisation, the Secretary- General of the United Nations, and all the States having signed the Charter of the United Nations.['] 1 By letter, dated May 7, 1948, the Director-General of the International Labor Office at Geneva, notified the Under Secretary of Labor, Department of Labor, at Washington as follows: ". . . the requisite number of ratifications and acceptances having been communicated to me, the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation Instrument of Amendment, 1946, came into force on 20 April 1948, the date on which the thirty-seventh ratification or accept- ance was received by the International Labour Office." See post, p. 3573, for a list showing, as of Aug. 10, 1948, the countries which have formally communi- cated to the International Labor Office their respective instruments of ratifica- tion or acceptance of the Instrument.