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 3034 REVISION, GENERAL ACT OF BERLIN, ETC. SEPT. 10, 1919. RBtific~tions ex· AND WHEREAS the said Convention was ratified by the United changed with reserva· tion. States of America, subject to the understanding that, in the event of a dispute in which the United States of America may be in- volved arising under the Convention, such dispute shall, if the United States of America so requests, be submitted to a court of Vol. 36, p. ?221. arbitration constituted in accordance with the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, signed at The Hague on October 18, 1907, or to some other court of arbitration; and the ratification embracing the said understanding was deposited with the Government of the French Republic on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand lline hundred and thirty-four, on Ant" p. 3m2. which day, the Convention, pur;:;uant to a provision of Article 15 thereof, came into force as between the United States of Amcricft. and the other signatory governments, all of whose ratifications had been deposited with the Government of the French Republic; Proclamation. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United Stat€s 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 by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, subject to the aforesaid understanding. IN TESTIMONY 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 third day of Novembcl' in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-four and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secr-etary of State.