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 752 GONVENTION—ORANGE FREE STATE. Duo. 22, 1871.. the operations of the said convention, it shall continue binding for twelve months longer, and so on from year to year until the expiration of the twelve months which will follow a similar declaration, whatever the time at which it may take place. Anrrcmr XIV. Avprornl. MMG- This convention shall be submitted on both sides to the approval and °'~,'f'°}]# “ “ 6 ° X ‘ ratification of the respective competent authorities, and the ratitications ° ‘“`°°` shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as circumstances shall admit. In faith whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, and have thereunto atlixed their seals. Done in quadruplicate at Bloemfonten this 22d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. W. W. EDGOOMB. [sms:.. F. K. HOHNE. . [snr;. Rotincataons ox- And whereas the said general convention has been duly ratiiied on ¢¤=¤¤g<=<i- both parts, and the respective ratitications of the sauna were exchanged at Washington on the eighteenth instant : Proclamation.- Now, therefore, be it known that 1, Unvssms S. GRANT, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. Siguaturg of In testimony whereof Lhave hereunto set my hand, and caused the treaty- seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city Washington this twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- [SEAL.] three, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-eighth. U. S. GRANT. By tho President:. J. O. Bimouoircr Dsvis, Acting Secretary of State.