TREATIES FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, January3, 1949, and adjourned sine die on Wednesday, October 19, 1949 HARRY S. TRUMAN, President; ALBEN W. BARKLEY , Vice President; KENNETH MCKELLAR, President of the Senate pro tempore; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Treaty and protocol between the United States of America and China respectingfriendship, commerce, and navigation. Signed at Nanking November 4, 1946; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America June 2, 1948, with reservationand understandings; ratified by the President of the United States of America November 8, 1948; ratifications exchanged at Nanking November SO, 1948; pro- claimed by the President of the United States of America January 12, 1949; entered into force November 0O,1948. And exchange of notes signed at Nanking November 29, 1948. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE8 OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHERFAS a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China, together with an accompanying protocol, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Nanking on November 4, 1946, the originals of which treaty and protocol, being in the English and Chinese languages, are word for word as follows: 1299 November 4, 194 T.I.A. . 18711 81939-52-PT . I- 2
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