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656 CONVENTION WITH JAPAN. Juumt 28, 1864.. January of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- four, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth, corresponding to the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the third year of Bunkin Ye of the Japanese era. [SEAL.] ROBERT H. PRUYN. Rntijcatiou And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts; v¤><=i¤i¤¤¤d· Now, therefore, be it. known that I, Arznnnw Jonsson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may he observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof; In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, [L. s.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: Winmau H. Smwann, Secretary of Stale.