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 PHILIPPINES-TRADE- O 2 l, 1946 Oct. 22, 1946 provisions of the agreement placing obligations on the Philippines take effect as laws of the Philippines, and that the agreement shall then be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and by the President of the Philippines, and shall enter into force on the day following the date of such proclamations, or, if they are issued on different dates, on the day following the later in date; and WHEREAS the President of the United States of America has deter- mined that the Congress of the Philippines by Act of July 3, 1946 accepted the aforesaid agreement and has enacted such legislation as is required by said section 408 of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946 and said Article X of the agreement; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting pursuant to the authority conferred by the said section 408 of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946, do hereby proclaim that the said agreement has been accepted by the Congress of the Philippines by law and that the Congress of the Philippines has enacted the legislation required as a condition prece- dent to the taking effect of the agreement, and do proclaim the said agreement and the said notes to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America, and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof, on and after the day following the proclamation of the said agreement and the said notes by the President of the Philippines as provided for in Article X of the said agreement. Following the said proclamation by the President of the Philippines, I shall proclaim the date of entry into force of the said agreement and the said notes. 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 seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred [SEAL] forty-six, and 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 Acceptance of agree- ment by Congress of the Philippines. 60 Stat. 154. 22 Stat. § 1348. Ante, p. 2620. Ante, p. 2620. 61 STAT.] 2635

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