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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY-OCT. 24, 1936 Convention between the United States of America and other members of the InternationalLabor Organization respecting shipowners' liability in case of sickness, injury, or death of seamen. Adopted by the Gen- eral Conference of the InternationalLabor Organization, twenty-first session, Geneva, October 24, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States, subject to understandings, June 13, 1938; rati- fied by the Presidentof the United States, subject to the said under- standings, August 15,1938;ratificationof the UnitedStates of America registeredwith the Secretary-Generalof the League of Nations October 29, 1938; proclaimed by the President of the United States Septem- ber 29, 1939. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a draft convention (No. 55) with regard to the liability of the shipowner in case of sickness, injury, or death of seamen, 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 certified 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: October 24, 1936 [T. S. No. 951] Shipowners' Liabil- ity (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936. Preamble. La Conf6rence g6nerale de l'Organisation internationale du Travail, Convoqu6e A Geneve par le Conseil d'administration du Bu- reau international du Travail, et s'y 6tant r6unie le 6 octobre 1936 en sa vingt et unieme session, Apres avoir d6cide d'adopter diverses propositions relatives aux obligations de l'armateur en cas de maladie, d'accident ou de deces des gens de mer, question qui est comprise dans le deuxieme point a l'ordre du jour de la session, Apres avoir decid6 que ces propositions prendraient la forme d'un projet de convention inter- nationale. The General Conference of the International Labour Organisa- tion, Having been convened at Geneva 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 liability of the ship- owner in case of sickness, injury or death of seamen, which is in- cluded in the second item on the Agenda of the Session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Draft International Convention, General Conference, International Labor Organization. 1693

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