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TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. International convention to suppress the slave traik and slavery. Signed September 25,1926. at Geneva, September 25, 1926; adherence advised by the Senate, with reservation, February 25, 1929; adherence declared by the President, March 1, 1929; declaration oj adherence oJ the United States, deposited ca Geneva, March 21, 1929; proclaimed March 23; 1929. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS a Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery In~ern8t1on81 Con- Idd' d fSe b G ventlOn to Suppress wasconcue onthe25th ay0 ptem er, 1926, at eneva, Sieve Tude and Switzerland, between the Governments of Albania, Germany, SITarmstroBot (talk)ble Austria, Belgium, the British Empire, the Dominion of Canada, the . Commonwealth of Australia, the Union of South Alrica, the Domin- ion of New Zealand, and India, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Liberia~ Lithuania, Norway, Panama, the Netherlands, P2rsia, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Crouts and Slovenes, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay, which Conventi(\n, in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows:

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