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 2198 INTERNATIONAL SLAVERY CONVENTION. SEPTEMBER 25,1926. SUEDE Einar HENNINGS SWEDEN TCHEcOSLOVAQUIE Ferdinand VEVERKA CZECHOSLOVAKIA URUGUAY B. FERNANDEZ y MEDINA URUGUAY Pour copie conforme. Certified true copy. Pour Ie SecrHaire general For the Secretary-General H. McKINNAN WOOD. Directeur de la Sectionjuridique, p. i. Director of the Legal Section, p. i. Governments ratlfy- AND WHEREAS, the said Convention has been ratified by the ing or adhering. Governments of Austria, Belgium, the British Empire, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of New Zealand, and India, Bulgaria, Den- mark, Spain, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, the Netherlands, (including the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curacao), Portugal and Sweden, and has been adhered to by the Governments of Ecua- dor, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Iraq, Monaco, Nicaragua and Sudan; AdberencebyCnlted AND WHEREAS, the Preaident of the United States of America, fiTarmstroBot (talk)' with a reserva- by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, did, on the first day of March 1929, declare that the United States of America adheres to the saiil Convention, subject to a reservation, as follows: AnU. p. 2193. "That the Government of the United States, adhering to its policy of opposition to forced or compulsory labor except as a punishment for crime of which the person concerned has been duly convicted, adheres to the Convention except as to the first subdi- vision of the second paragraph of article five, which reads as follows: " '(1) Subject to the transitional provisions laid down in paragraph (2) below, compulsory or forced labor may only be exacted for public purposes.' " Deposit of adherence. AND WHEREAS, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary of the United States of America at Berne did, on March 21, 1929, deposit with the Secretary General of the League of Nations, in confornuty with Article XI of the Convention, the instrument evidencing the adherence of the United States to the said Convention, as above recited; Proclamation. NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public to the end that the Game and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith bY' the United States and the citizens thereof, subject to the aforesaId reservation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State. HERBERT HOOVER