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 (1 SrAT.] PIIILIPPINES-MILITARY BASES-MAR . 14, 1947 ARTICLE XXVIII UNITED STATES RESERVE ORGANIZATIONS It is mutually agreed that thle United States shall have the right to enroll and train all eligible United States citizens residing in the Philippines in the Reserve organizations of the armed forces of the United States, which include the Officers Reserve Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps, except that prior consent of the Philippines shall be obtained in the case of such persons who are employed by the Philippines or any Municipal or Provincial Government thereof. ARTICLE XXIX TERM OF AGREEMENT The present Agreement shall enter into force upon its acceptance [1] by the two Governments and shall remain in force for a period of ninety-nine years subject to extension thereafter as agreed by the two Governments. Signed in Manila, Philippines, in duplicate this fourteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-seven. On behalf of the Government of the United States of America: [SEAL] PAUL V. MCNUTT Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten- tiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines: [SEAL] MANUEL ROXAS Pesldent of the Phlippmnes S [Entered into force March 26,1947. In a note of June 16,1947, the American Charge d'Affaires ad interim at Manila informed the Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines that "the Government of the United States of America considers that the signature affixed to the Agreement in its behalf constitutes the acceptance of the Agreement by the Government of the United States of America." In a note of January 24, 1948, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines informed the American Am- bassador at Manila that "the Government of the Republic of the Philippines accepts the Agreement as of March 26, 1947, pursuant to a formal instrument of acceptance and ratification of said Agreement signed by the President of the Philippines on January 21,1948 . ."1 4031

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