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 56 STAT.] INTER-AMERICAN-EUROPEAN COLONIES-JULY 30, 1940 AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article XIX of the said Convention that the Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited in the Archives of the Pan American Union in Washington, and that the Convention shall enter into force when two-thirds of the American Republics have deposited their respective instruments of ratification; AND WHEREAS the said Convention has been ratified by two-thirds of the American Republics, and their respective instruments of ratification were deposited with the Pan American Union on the dates specified, to wit: by the United States of America, October 24, 1940; the Dominican Republic, November 28, 1940; Costa Rica, December 17, 1940; Brazil, January 14, 1941; Peru, April 4, 1941; Panama, May 13, 1941; El Salvador, July 9, 1941; Haiti, August 13, 1941; Guatemala, August 14, 1941; Argentina, October 1, 1941, subject to the reservation made at the time of signature; Venezuela, October 22, 1941; Colombia, November 5, 1941; Ecuador, December 27, 1941; and Honduras, January 8, 1942; on which latest date the said Con- vention entered into force pursuant to Article XIX thereof: Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have causedthe said Convention to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. IN WITNESS 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 twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-two, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1281 Ante, p. 1277. Dates of deposit of instruments of rati- fication. Date of entry into force.

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