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 CONVENTION--AMERlCAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. 1859 AND WID!RUS the Gaid Convention and the said Protocol have l'rotoaoI-CoDt4. been duly ratified on both parts and the instruments of ratification of the United States of America were exchanged for those of His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Iraq at London on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one;. Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN THAT I, HERBERT HooVER, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention and the said Protocol to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIlIONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DoNE at the city of Washington this eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. By the President: JImmy L STIKSON Secretary of State. HERBERT HOOVER EXCHANGES OF NOTES The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affair8 (Hender8on) to the American Ambassador (Dawes) FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.l. 9th January, 1930. YOUR EXCELLENCY, On the signature this day of the Convention between His Britan- nic Majesty and His Majesty the King of Iraq respectively of the one part, and the President of the United States of America of the other part, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland agree to furnish to the Government of the United States a duplicate of the Annual Report to be made in accordance with the terms of the Decision of the Council of the League of Nations on the 27th day of September 1924. I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Your Excellency's obedient Servant, Ihs Ex~cy GENERAL CHARLES G. DAWES, C.B ., etc., etc., etc., ARTHUR HENDERSON ExchaDpe uf notes.