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 M9ETTIh mTITERt TA DB May 6, 1937 947 59STAT.] ULTILATERA-SUG uly 22, 1942; Aug. 31, 1944 on the part of the United States at the time of the signing of this agreement (May 6, 1937, at London) shall not be regarded as constituting a part of this agreement."; AND WHEREAS, by an Act of the National Assembly of the Common- wealth of the Philippines (Commonwealth Act No. 256) approved by the President of the Philippines on March 17, 1938, and by the President of the United States of America on April 29, 1938, the com- mitments of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under the afore- said Agreement and the protocol annexed thereto were confirmed and the President of the Philippines was authorized to enforce the terms, provisions, and restrictions of the said Agreement and protocol; AND WHEREAS the said Agreement was duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on March 22, 1938, in terms as follows: "Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, having seen and con- sidered the said agreement regarding the regulation of production and marketing of sugar, and having seen and considered the afore- said action of the National Assembly of the Commonwealth of the Philippines confirming and implementing the commitments of the said Commonwealth thereunder, do hereby, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate of the United States of America, ratify and confirm the said agreement and every article and clause thereof, subject to the reservation hereinabove recited and made part of this ratification."; AND WHEREAS instruments of ratification of the said Agreement on the part of signatory Governments were deposited in accordance with Article 47 of the said Agreement as follows: Australia on July Aite,p. 39. 21, 1937; Peru on July 30, 1937; the Dominican Republic on August 9, 1937; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on August 27, 1937; Germany on September 1, 1937; Czechoslovakia on September 1, 1937; Portugal on September 2, 1937; the Union of South Africa on September 9, 1937; the Republic of Cuba on Sep- tember 22, 1937; India on January 13, 1938; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on February 26, 1938; Poland on March 14, 1938; the Netherlands on March 14, 1938; Haiti on March 22, 1938; Brazil on March 31, 1938; the United States of America (including the Commonwealth of the Philippines), subject to the reservation afore- said, on April 4, 1938; Belgium on April 7, 1938; and Hungary on June 14, 1938; AND WHEREAS it is provided by Article 48 of the said Agreement A"''ep.93g that the Agreement shall come into force on September 1, 1937 if at that date it has been ratified by all the signatory Governments; AND WHEREAS the instruments of ratification of the said Agree- ment on the part of all the signatory Governments were not deposited by September 1, 1937; AND WHEREAS, by reason of declarations made by certain of the signatory Governments pursuant to paragraph 4 of the protocol A*, p.m.

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