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 TREATIES Safety of Life at Sea. Amendment to Regulation XIX of Annex I to the Convention between the United States of America and other powers signed at London, May 31, 1929. Proposed by the Government of the United Kingdom of GreatBritainand NorthernIreland,December 31, 1930; ratificationadvised by the Senate, May 28, 1937; ratified by the President, June 9, 1937; ratificationof the United States deposited at London, July 27, 1937; proclaimed, September 3, 1937. By TE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS an International Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea with annexed Regulations, signed at London on May 31, 1929, was ratified with certain understandings by the United States of America, and the instrument of ratification of the United States of America was deposited with the Government of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at London on August 7, 1936; AND WHEREAS, a proposal was made by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that Section (2) of Regulation XIX of Annex I of the said Convention be amended by inserting between the two paragraphs in that Section, a new paragraph which through inadvertence was unintentionally omitted from the said Section wherein it was intended to be included when the Convention and Regulations were prepared for signature, and which is in language as follows: "In all cases an additional independent power pump shall be fitted when the criterion numeral exceeds 30."; International con- vention for promot- ing safety of life at sea, etc. Preamble. 50 Stat. 1121 . Amendment to Reg- ulation XIX of Annex I; proposal. AND WHEREAS the said amendment has been duly ratified on the a Ratification of part of the United States of America, and the instrument of ratifica- United States. tion was deposited with the Government of Great Britain and Deposit. Northern Ireland on the 27th day of July, 1937; AND WHEREAS according to a certificate of the British Foreign iAceptanc e by all Office at London, dated January 17, 1933, the said amendment has been duly accepted by all the parties to the Convention; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- Proclamation. dent of the United States of America, have caused the said amend- ment to be made public to the end that Section (2) of Regulation XIX of Annex I of the International Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea, as amended, shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens 13 December 31, 1930 [T. S. No. 921]

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