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2258 CONVENTION-—CONTRACT DEBTS. Ooromm 18, 1907. or special treaties of arbitration heretofore or hereafter concluded . between the parties in dis ute;" _ mmaeauen. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America subject to the aforesaid understandin , and by the Governments of Germany, Austria-Hunary, Denmaigk, Great Britain, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and Salvador, and the ratifications of the said Governments were, under .4m,p.22.·a2. the provisions of Article 3 of the said Convention, deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the Netherlands Government on November 27, 1909; Adherence eremmt And whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the ‘*"“·"·2252 · said Convention, the Government of China gave notification to the Netherlands Government on January 15, 1910, of its adherence to the said Convention; Pr¤c1¤¤¤¤¤i<>¤· Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof, subject to the imderstandin contampgoigi the resolution of the Senate of the United States og April In testimony 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 twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fourth. _ WM H Tam By the President: P C KNox Secretary of State.