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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-MINIMUM AGE (SEA)-OCT. 24, 1936 Convention between the United States of America and other members of October 24, 1936 the International Labor Organization respecting minimum age for [T. S. No. 952] employment of children at sea. Adopted by the General Conference of the InternationalLabor Organization, twenty-second session, Geneva, October 24, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States, subject to understandings, June 13, 1938; ratified by the President of the United States, subject to the said understandings, August 15, 1938; ratificationof the United States of America registered with the Secretary-Generalof 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. 58) fixing the minimum age for the admission of children to employment at sea 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-second session held at Geneva October 22-24, 1936, a certified copy of which draft convention, communicated by the Secretary- General of the League of Nations, acting in conformity with the re- quirements in the nineteenth Article of the Constitution of the Inter- national 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: Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936. Preamble. La Conference generale de l'Or- ganisation internationale du Tra- vail, Convoqu6e a Geneve par le Conseil d'administration du Bu- reau international du Travail, et s'y etant reunie le 22 octobre 1936 en sa vingt-deuxieme session, Apres avoir d6cide d'adopter diverses propositions relatives a la revision partielle de la conven- tion fixant I'age minimum d'ad- mission des enfants au travail maritime adoptee par la Confe- rence A sa deuxieme session, ques- tion inscrite A l'ordre du jour de la presente session, The General Conference of the International Labour Organisa- tion, Having been convened at Ge- neva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty- second Session on 22 October 1936, and Having decided upon the adop- tion of certain proposals with re- gard to the partial revision of the Convention fixing the minimum age for admission of children to employment at sea adopted by the Conference at its Second Ses- sion, the question forming the Agenda of the present Session, and Genetal Conference of the International Labor Organization.

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