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 MULTILATERAL-WHALING-DEC. 2, 1946 FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: A. T. A. DOBSON JOHN THOMSON FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: REMINGTON KELLOGG IRA N GABRIELSON WILLIAM E. S. FLORY FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: H. T. ANDREWS I CERTIFY THAT the foregoing is a true copy of the Protocol for the Regulation of Whaling opened for signature in the English language at Washington on December 2,1946, the signed original of which is deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State of the United States of America, have hereunto caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed and my name subscribed by the Acting Authentication Officer of the said Department, at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, this twenty-third day of December, 1946. [SEAL] JAMES F. BYRNES Secretary of State ByBECASH Acting Authentication Officer Department of State WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their Resolution of July 2, 1946,['] two-thirds of the Senators present con- curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said protocol of December 2, 1946; WHEREAs the said protocol of December 2, 1946 was duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on July 18, 1947, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate; WHEREAS it is provided in Article II of the said protocol of Decem- ber 2, 1946 that the protocol shall come into force when notifications of acceptance thereof shall have been given to the Government of the United States of America by all the Governments parties to the said Protocol of November 26, 1945; WHEREAS the said Protocol of November 26, 1945 came into force in its entirety in respect of the United States of America, the Union of South Africa, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, pursuant to the provisions of Article I of a Supplementary Protocol signed at London on March 3, 1947 by the respective plenipotentiaries 1 July 2, 1947. Advice and consent to ratification. Ratification. Ante, p. 1577. 61 Stat., Pt. 2, p. 1213. 62 STAT.] 1579 ^*

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