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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-NOV. 26 ,1945 Protocol between the United States of America and other governments amending the InternationalAgreement for the Regulation of Whaling signed June 8, 1937, as amended by the protocol signed June 24, 1938. Signed at London November 26, 1946: ratificationadvised by the Senate of the United States of America July 30, 1946; ratified by the President of the United States of America August 12, 1946;fratification of the United States of America deposited at London August 30, 1946; articles2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2), 7, and 8 proclaimed by the Presidentof the United States of America February 10, 1947. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a protocol amending the International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling signed at London on June 8, 1937, as amended by the Protocol signed at London on June 24, 1938, was signed at London on November 26, 1945 by the respective plenipoten- tiaries of the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, Denmark, the French Republic, the United Mexican States, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; WHEREAS the text of the said protocol, as certified by the Foreign Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is word for word as follows: PROTOCOL. THE Governments of the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America; Desiring, in view of the fact that pelagic whaling operations in the area defined by Article 7 of the international Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at London on the 8th June, 1937 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Agreement), as amended by the Protocol signed at London on the 24th June, 1938 (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol of 1938), have been interrupted for a considerable period by the war, and in order to meet the emergency produced by post-war conditions without prejudice to the conservation of stocks of whales, to put into force by agreement such provisions as may be necessary in regard to pelagic whaling for the season 1946/47; Have agreed as follows:- ARTICLE 1. Subject to the provisions of Article 3 of the present Protocol, the period fixed by Article 7 of the Principal Agreement, during which November 26, 1945 [T. I. A. S. 1597] Regulation of whal- ing. 52 Stat. 1460 . 53 Stat. 1794. Pelagic whaling. 52 Stat. 1461. 53 Stat. 1794 . Baleen whales. 52 Stat. 1461. 1213

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