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CONVENTION-JAPAN. JANUARY 13, 1896. 861 And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, m{§§;Q°¤g° °* ’°““· and the ratiiications of the two Governments were exchanged at Tokyo ' on the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- seven; Now, therefore, be it known that I, William McKinley, President of P¤>¤l¤¤=¤*i¤¤· the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause thereof may be observed and fulnlled 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 aihxed. Done at the city of Washington this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-nrst. WILLIAM MGKINLEY By the President: J om: SHERMAN Secretary of State.