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 61 STAT.] INTER-AMERICAN-AUTOMOTIVE TRAFFIC-DEC. 31, 1943 WHEREAS it is provided in Article XXI of the said convention that the convention shall come into force between the High Contracting Parties in the order in which they deposit their respective ratifications with the Pan American Union; WHEREAS instruments of ratification of the said convention were deposited with the Pan American Union by Guatemala on July 6, 1944, Peru on July 25, 1944, the Dominican Republic on August 4, 1944, Nicaragua on August 31, 1944, Brazil on January 8, 1945, and El Salvador on May 22, 1946; WHEREAS the convention was, on behalf of the United States of America, "Signed subject to the understanding and reservation that nothing in Article XV shall be construed to require the use of per- sonnel and facilities of the United States of America for the purpose of determining compliance with the provisions of Articles X and XI by vehicles whenever, in the opinion of the competent authorities of the United States of America, there would result an impairment of essen- tial services performed by such personnel and facilities or an undue hindrance to the movement of automotive traffic into and from the territory of the United States of America"; WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of July 25, 1946 (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), did advise and consent to the ratification of the said convention on the regulation of inter-American automotive traffic as signed on behalf of the United States of America; AND WHEREAS the said convention was duly ratified by the Presi- dent of the United States of America on August 8, 1946, subject to the aforementioned understanding and reservation with respect to Article XV, and the instrument of ratification on the part of the United States of America was duly deposited with the Pan American Union on October 29, 1946; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said convention on the regulation of inter-American automotive traffic to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and after October 29, 1946, by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the juris- diction thereof. 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 first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-six and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F BYRNES Secretary of State Ante, p. 1150. Ante, p. 1146. Ante, pp. 1138,1140. Deposit of instru- ment of ratification. Ante, p. 1146.

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