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 TREATIES [61 STAT. March 3,1947 Supplementary protocol between the United States of America and other TT. A. S. 163] governments respecting whaling, bringing into force in entirety the protocol of November 26, 1945. Signed at London March 3, 1947; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America July 2, 1947; ratified by the Presidentof the United States of America July 18, 1947; ratification of the United States of America deposited at London August 1, 1947; proclaimed by the President of the United States of America August 18, 1947; entered into force with respect to the United States of America August 1, 1947. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTrED STATES OF AMEICA A PROCLAMATION Regulation of whal- ing. Ante, p. 1213. 52 Stat. 140. 53 Stat. 179 . Ante, p. 1215. WHEREAS by my proclamation of February 10, 1947 I did pro- claim and make public Articles 2, 3, 4, 6 (1), 6 (2), 7, and 8 of the Protocol, signed at London on November 26, 1945 by the respective plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of Amer- ica, 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, 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, the said Articles having come into force in respect of the Gov- ernment of the United States of America on August 30, 1946, pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the said Protocol of November 26, 1945; WHEREAS it is provided in the said Article 8 that the said Protocol of November 26, 1945 shall come into force in its entirety when all the Governments referred to in the Preamble thereof, namely, the Govern- ments of the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, Denmark, the French Republic, the United Mexican States, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, shall have deposited their instruments of ratification or given notifications of accession; WHEaEAS all the said Governments except the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the Netherlands de- posited their respective instruments of ratification of the said Protocol of November 26, 1945; WHEREAS a supplementary protocol was signed at London on March 3, 1947 by the respective plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the United States of America (subject to ratification), the Union of South 1240

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