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 tal V, have been or may be registered with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations subsequent to October 29, 1938, twelve months after the date on which the ratification has been or may be registered in each case; Exemptions for cer- AND WHEREAS it is provided in paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the said in vessels. draft convention that national laws or regulations may grant excep- tions or exemptions in respect of vessels of less than 200 tons gross registered tonnage; AND WHEREAS the Congress of the United States of America by an Act, Public, No. 16, 76th Congress, 1st Session, entitled "AN ACT To exempt all vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage from the provisions of the Officers' Compe- tency Certificates Convention, 1936 (being International Labor Con- ference Treaty, Convention Numbered 53, adopted by the Interna- tional Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936)," approved March 29, 0 u s. c., snpp. 1939 (53 Stat. 554), did enact that , 241. ".. vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage are hereby exempted from the pro- visions of such convention: Provided, however, That neither the ratification of the said convention by the President of the United States, nor the advice and consent of the United States Senate given thereto, nor any provision of the said convention as ratified, nor any provision of this Act shall be deemed to alter, amend, or repeal any statute of the United States existing at the time of said ratification, or thereafter enacted, with regard to any such vessel of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage."; AND WHEREAS the Congress of the United States of America, by an Act, Public, No. 188, 76th Congress, 1st Session, entitled "AN ACT To make effective the provisions of the Officers' Competency 46 u.. C. Buppl Certificates Convention, 1936" approved July 17, 1939 (53 Stat. 1049), did enact such legislation as was required to give full force and effect to the provisions of the aforesaid convention; Prclamation. NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled in good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, except in respect of vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage, on and from October 29, 1939, subject to the understandings above recited and to the legislation which has been enacted to make effective the provisions of the said convention on the part of the United States of America. 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-ninth day of Septem- ber in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL] and thirty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. By the President: FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT COBDELL HULL Secretary of State. v [54 STAT. TREATIES

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