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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-MINIMUM AGE (SEA)-OCT. 24, 1936 AND WHEREAS the ratification of the said draft convention by the United States of America, subject to the understandings above recited, was registered with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations on October 29, 1938; AND WHEREAS by such registration the said convention will come into force, pursuant to Article 7 thereof, for the United States of America with respect to Norway, Belgium and Brazil on October 29, 1939, twelve months after the date on which the ratification of the United States of America was registered with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, and, pursuant to the same article, will come into force for Sweden and other Members of the International Labor Organization whose ratifications 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 ratifi- cation has been or may be registered in each case; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said con- vention 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, on and from October 29, 1939, subject to the understandings above recited and to any legislation or regulations in accordance with the provisions of the convention which may be made 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 September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1711 Registration of U. S. ratification. Date of coming into force for U. S. Proclamation.

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