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 1796 March 30, 1948 Proclamationby the President of the United States of America at Wash- T.I.A. S.18591 ington March 30, 1948, declaring the entry into force of amendments set forth in the annex to the protocol of December 11, 1946, respecting narcoticdrugs. By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Protocol, with accompanying Annex, amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs was opened p61s tat., t. 2, for signature at Lake Success, New York, on December 11, 1946, p. 2M.0. and was signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America (with a reservation "Subject to approval") and forty- eight other countries; 61 Stat. , Pt. 2, WHEREAS, by my proclamation of October 14, 1947, I proclaimed p. 2230. and made public the said Protocol, with accompanying Annex, and declared that when the amendments set forth in the Annex to the said Protocol shall have come into force in accordance with Article P61 Stat'. Pt. 2, VII of the said Protocol I shall issue a supplementary proclamation with respect to the said amendments; WHEREAs it is provided in Article VII of the said Protocol that the amendments set forth in the said Annex shall come into force in respect of each Agreement, Convention and Protocol when a majority of the Parties thereto have become Parties to the said Protocol; and WHEREAS, according to a notification received by the Government of the United States of America from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the said amendments in respect of the International Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distri- 48 Stat. l 3 . bution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva on July 13, 1931, entered into force on November 21, 1947; Entry Into force. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation 623Stat. , Pt. 2, of October 14, 1947, do hereby proclaim and make public the entry into force on November 21, 1947 of the amendments, as set forth in the said Annex to the said Protocol, in respect of the International Con- vention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution 48 Stat. 154 . of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva on July 13, 1931, to the end that the said amendments shall be observed 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. TREATIES [62 STAT.

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