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 2448 SMUGGLING CONVENTION-JAPAN. MAY 31, 1928. Fotice of proposed Three months before the expiration of the said period of one modifications. year, either of the High Contracting Parties may give notice of its desire to propose modifications in the terms of the Convention. . Conve~tio~ to lapse If such modifications have not been a~reed upon before the expira- If modIficatIOns ::''Jt. fh f . b hC. h11 agreed upon. tlOn0 t eterm0 oneyearmentlOne aove,t e onventlOnsa lapse. to~.TarmstroBot (talk):~¥fi: ~f no notice is giv~n on either si~e ~f the desire to propose modifi- tions proposed. catIons, the ConventIon shall remam In force for another year, and so on automatically, but subject always in respect of each such period of a year to the right on either side to propose as provided above three months before its expiration modifications in the Con- vention, and to the provision that if such modifications are not agreed upon before the close of the period of one year, the Convention shall lapse. ARTICLE VI. Convention to lapse In the event that either of the High Contracting Parties shall be if effect thereof pre- td.hb. d'.Id.. I' I' t'f. . vented by judicial de- prevene elt er y JU lCla eCIsIon or egIS abve ac Ion rom gIvmg ii or legislative full effect to the provisions of the present Convention the said Con- vention shall automatically lapse, and, on such lapse or whenever this Convention shall cease to be in force, each High Contracting Party shall enjoy all the rights which it would have possessed had this Convention not been concluded. Exchange of ratifica- The present Convention shall be duly ratified by the President tions. f S . b o the United tates of AmerIca, y and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate thereof and by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan j and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. SignatllIllB. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have thereunto affixed their seals. Ratifications ex- changed. Proclamation. Done at the city of Washington this 31st day of May, in the nine- teen hundred and twenty-eighth year of the Christian era, cor- responding to the 31st day of the 5th month of the 3rd year of Showa. [SEAL] [SEAL] FRANK B KELLOGG T. MATSUDAIRA AND WHEREAS the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were ex- changed in the city of Washington on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith l:>y the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMOJ\TY 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 sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: J P COTTON Acting Secretary of State