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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SHIPS' OFFICERS-OCT. 24, 1936 1683 Convention between the United States of America and other members October 24, 193 of the InternationalLabor Organizationrespecting officers' competency [T. S. No. 9501 certificates. Adopted by the General Conference of the International Labor Organization, twenty-first session, Geneva, October 24, 1936; ratificationadvised by the Senate of the United States, subject to under- standings, June IS, 1938; ratifiedby the Presidentof the United States, subject to the said understandings, September 1, 1938; ratification of the United States of America registered with the Secretary General of the League of Nations October 29, 1938; proclaimed by the President of the United States September 29, 1939. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a draft convention (No. 53) with regard to the estab- lishment by each maritime country of a minimum requirement of professional capacity in the case of captain, navigating and engineer officers in charge of watches on board merchant ships, was adopted on the twenty-fourth day of October nineteen hundred and thirty-six, by the General Conference of the International Labor Organization at its twenty-first session held at Geneva October 6-24, 1936, a cer- tified copy of which draft convention, communicated by the Secretary- General of the League of Nations, acting in conformity with the requirements in the nineteenth Article of the Constitution of the International Labor Organization, to the Government of the United States of America as a Member of the said Organization, is, in the French and English languages, word for word as follows: La Conference generale del'Or- ganisation internationale du Tra- vail, Convoqu6e A Geneve par le Conseil d'administration du Bu- reau international du Travail, et s'y 6tant reunie le 6 octobre 1936 en sa vingt et unieme session, Apres avoir decide d'adopter diverses propositions relatives E l'institution par chacun des pays maritimes d'un minimum de capa- cite professionnelle exigible des capitaines, officiers de pont et officiers mecaniciens remplissant les fonctions de chef de quart A bord des navires marchands, ques- Officers' Competen- cy Certificates Con- vention, 1936. Preamble. The General Conference of the anetalConaerence, Internatlonal Labor International Labour Organisa- Organization. tion, Having been convened at Gene- va by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-first Session on 6 October 1936, and Having decided upon the adop- tion of certain proposals with regard to the establishment by each maritime country of a mini- mum requirement of professional capacity in the case of captain, navigating and engineer officers in charge of watches on board mer- chant ships, which is the fourth

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