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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-NOV. 26 ,1945 WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of July 30, 1946, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said protocol; WHEREAS the said protocol was duly ratified on behalf of the Government of the United States of America on August 12, 1946, and the instrument of ratification on the part of the said Government was duly deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on August 30, 1946; WHEREAS it is provided in Article 8 of the said protocol that Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2), 7, and 8 of the said protocol shall, when instruments of ratification have been deposited by at least three signatory Govern- ments, become binding on those Governments and shall become binding on each other Government which subsequently ratifies or accedes on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification or notification of its accession; WHEREAS instruments of ratification of the said protocol were deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by the Government of New Zealand on March 7, 1946, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on March 29, 1946, and the Government of Norway on April 4, 1946; and WHEREAS pursuant to the aforesaid provision of Article 8 of the said protocol, Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2), 7, and 8 of the said protocol came into force on April 4, 1946, in respect of the Governments of New Zealand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Norway; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2), 7, and 8 of the said 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, to the end that the aforesaid Articles and every pro- vision and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction 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 tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-seven [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State 1217 Deposit of instru- ment of ratification. Proclamation of des- ignated articles. 52 Stat. 140O. 83 Stat. 1794. 96 3 47--49--PT. 11 - 17

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