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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. [SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, by my Proclamation of November 16, 1939, I did make public the trade agreement consisting of a modus vivendi and definitive agreement, with two schedules annexed to each of them, which, pur- suant to Section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United States of America, as amended by the Act of June 12, 1934, 1 U°. 8. if .5511- entitled "AN ACT To Amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), 1354; Supp. V, if 1351, 3 p107 which amending act was extended by Joint Resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), I entered into on November 6, 1939, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, with the President of the Republic of Venezuela, through his duly empowered Pleni- potentiary, to the end that the said modus vivendi and every part thereof might be observed and fulfilled by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on December 16, 1939, and there- after during its continuance in force pending the entry into force of the definitive agreement, as is provided for in Article XIX of the said modus vivendi, and further to the end that the said definitive agreement and every part thereof might be observed and fulfilled thirty days after the exchange of my said proclamation for the instrument of ratification of the Government of the United States of Venezuela, as is provided for in Article XIX of the said definitive agreement; AND WHEREAS, the proclamation of the said trade agreement by the President of the United States of America and the ratification thereof by the Government of the United States of Venezuela were duly exchanged at the city of Washington on November 14, 1940; Date of entryinto Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, fore, of definitive waement. President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of November 16, 1939, do hereby proclaim that the said definitive agreement of November 6, 1939, will enter into full force on December 14, 1940. 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 twenty-seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL] hundred and forty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: COIDuL HLL - - - Secretary of State. 2402

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