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 3096 Proclamation. MULTILATERAL-'YlIALIXG HEGULATIOX. SEPT. 24~ 1931. Government of the United States of America by the Secretary General; 1 AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of Article 17 of the convention, the convention entered into effect on the ninetieth day following October 18, 1934, the date of the deposit of the ratification of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, that is to say on January 16, 1935; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said con- vention 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 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 'Yashington this sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty- [SEAL] five and of the Independence of the United States of Amer- ica the one hundred and fifty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. (1 The following ratifications and accessions were received by the Secretary General of the League of Nations on or before Oct. 18, 1934: Ratifications: United States of America, Czechoslovakia, DenmR.rk (including Greenland), Great Britain and Northern Ireland (not including colonies, protec- torates, overseas territories or territories under suzerainty or under mandate exercised by the British Government), Italy (with reservation that the conven- tion can in no way constitute a precedent for future agreements providing for the limitation of fishing in extraterritorial sea), Mexico, Netherlands (including Netherland India, Surinam, and CuraQao), Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Union of South Africa, Turkey, and Y\Jgoslavia. Accessions: Brazil, Egypt, Monaco, Nicaragua, and Sudan.]