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 62 STAT.] PHILIPPINES-CONSULAR OFFICERS-MAR. 14, 1947 WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America, by their resolution of April 14, 1948, two-thirds of the Senators present con- curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the afore- said convention; WHEREAS the aforesaid convention was duly ratified by the Presi- dent of the United States of America on May 25, 1948, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and has been duly ratified on the part of the Government of the Republic of the Philip- pines; WHEREAS the respective instruments of ratification of the aforesaid convention were duly exchanged at Manila on November 18, 1948, and a protocol of exchange of instruments of ratification was signed on that date by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines; AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article XVI of the aforesaid con- vention that the convention shall take effect immediately upon the exchange of instruments of ratification; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the aforesaid convention to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and from the eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred forty-eight, 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 twenty-sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty- [SEAL] eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State 1603 Advice and consent to ratification. Ratification. Exchange of instru- ments of ratification. Proclamation. Entry into force.

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