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 261 MULTILATERAL-BILLS OF LADING-AUGUST 25, 1924 There are also enclosed for the information of Your Excellency's Government a copy of the "Carriage of Goods by Sea Act" of 1936,' and of a memorandum prepared by my Government showing a comparison between the Act and the Convention. Additional copies of the Act and the memorandum will be made available to Your Excellency at an early date for transmission to the other signatory Governments. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. Louis SUSSDORFF, Jr. Charge d'Affaires a. i. Enclosures: 1. Instrument of ratification 2. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 3. Memorandum (one copy only) His Excellency Mr. PAUL H. SPAAK Ministerfor Foreign Affairs and Foreign Commerce [Enclosure 11 [RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA] FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: KNOW YE, That whereas a convention for the unification of certain rules relating to bills of lading for the carriage of goods by sea and a protocol of signature thereto, dated and opened for signature at Brussels on August 25, 1924, were signed on various dates thereafter by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Spain, Estonia, France, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with a reservation, Hungary, Italy, Japan (the convention only), with reservations, Poland and the Free City of Danzig, Rumania and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slo- venes (Yugoslavia), certified copies of which convention and protocol are hereto annexed: 3 AND WHEREAS, the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of April 1 (legislative day March 13), 1935 (two- thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), did advise and consent to the ratification of the said convention and protocol of signature thereto, "with the understanding, to be made a part of such ratification, that, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4, Section 5, and the first paragraph of Article 9 of the convention, neither the carrier nor the ship shall in any event be or become liable Post, p. 262 . Post, p. 269. s Ante, pp. 233 and 243, respectively. Instrument of rati- fication.

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