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 2228 INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION. JULY 5, 1930. lUly 6, 1930. Oonvemion and final 'F.otocol between tke Unued States of America and otker powers establUJhing load lines to ships of international voyage with final act of tke interna,tional load line conference and exchanges of notes. Signed at London, J'IJly 5, 1930; ratification advised by tke Senate, Febr..w,ry 27, 1931; ratified by' the President, May 1, 1931; ratification of tke United States depos'/,ted at London, June 10, 1931; proclaimed, January 5,1933. ProCbunation of the President. International Load Line Convention. Preamble. Purposes. Plenipotentiaries. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITEi> STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a convention establishing uniform principles and rules with regard to the limits to which ships on international voyages may be loaded was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and certain other countries, at London on July 5, 1930, the original of which convention in the English and French languages, as \ 1rtmed by the Foreign Office in London~ is word for word as follows: INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION.1 PREAMBLE, THE Governments of Germany, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, G.lba, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, the Irish Free State, the United States of America, Finland, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, India, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; desiring to promote safety of life and property at sea by establishing in common agree- ment uniform principles and rules with regard to the limits to which ships on international voyages may be loaded, have resolved to con- clude a Convention for that purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:- The Government of Germany: MI', Gustav KOENIGS, Ministerialdirigent in the Reichsverkehrs- ministerium, Geheimer Regierungsrat, Berlin. (1 Except as otherwise noted, corrections embodied in bracketed footnotes to the text of the convention and its annexes, the final proiocol, and the final act are based on the list of errata which accompanied the certified copy furnished by the British Foreign Office. A few minor errata indicated in that list as present in the En~lish text of the convention and its annexes and the final protocol were corrected In the text which was sent to the Senate, approved by it, and proclaimed by the President; these corrections are therefore here incorporated without indication. In view of the foregoing, the list of errata is not here printed as a Whole.]