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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-REGULATION OF WHALING-MAR. 3, 1947 WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of July 2, 1947, two-thirds of the Senators present con- curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said supplementary protocol; WHEREAS the said supplementary protocol was duly ratified on behalf of the Government of the United States of America on July 18, 1947, 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 1, 1947; WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Article I of the said supple- mentary protocol, the said supplementary protocol came into force immediately upon the signature thereof in respect of those Govern- ments on behalf of which it was signed without reservation as to rati- fication or approval; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Article I of the said supple- mentary protocol, the said Protocol of November 26, 1945, notwith- standing the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 8 thereof, came into force in respect of each of the Governments parties to the said supplementary protocol; 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 supplementary protocol signed at London on March 3, 1947, and do hereby proclaim and make public in its entirety the said Proto- col signed at London on November 26, 1945 amending the Inter- national 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 said supplementary protocol and the said Protocol of November 26,1945 and every provision 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 eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty- [SEAL] seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-second. By the President: HARRY S TRUMAN ROBERT A LOVETr Acting Secretary of State 1243 Deposit of instru- ment of ratification. Ante, p. 1213. Ante, p. 1215. 52 Stat. 1460 . 53 Stat. 1794.

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