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2204 AFRICAN LIQUOR CONVENTION. SEl'TEMBER 10, 1919. Ratification by AND WHEREAS, the said Convention was ratiiied on the part the United States. of the United States of America on the seventh day of March, one Reservation. Ante, p. 2202. thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, subject to the follc-wing reservation: "Should any dispute whatever a.rise between any of the high contracting parties and the United Sta.tes relative to the appli- cation of the present convention which can not be settled by negotiation, such dispute shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague established by the convention of October 18,1907, or to such other arbitral tribunal upon which the parties to the dispute may agree"; ti Deposit of rati1lca- AND WHEREAS, the instrument of ratification by the Govern- on. ment of the United States of the said Convention, as above recited, was, in conformity with Article XI thereof, deposited with the Govern- ment of the French Republic on March 22, 1929; Ratification by other AND WHEREAS, thE" said Convention has been duly ratified also oontractlng Powers. h fBI . hB"hE'F J d Proclamation. Convention relating to Liquor Traftlc in Africa. Contracting Powers. Preamble. ontetarts0 eglUm, t e ntIs mplre, rance, apan an Portuga, and their instruments of ratification have been deposited with the Government of the French Republic; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover 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 dtizens thereof, subject to the afores8.1d reservation. . IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-sixth day of March in the year of our LOrd one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundTed and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State [TraDIlation of Oonventlon) HERBERT HOOVER The United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and Portugal; Whereas it is necessag to continue in. the African territories placed under their administration the struggle against the dangers of alco- holism which they have maintained by subjecting spirits to constantly increasing duties; Whereas, further, it is necessary to prohibit the importation of dig., tilled beverages rendered more especial).y dangerous to the native populations by the nature of the products entering into their com- . position or by the opportunities which a low price gives for their extended use; , Plenipotentiaries. Whereast finally, the restrictions placed on the impOl'tation of spirits WOUld be of no effect unless the local manufacture of distilled beverages was at the same time strictly controlled; Have appointed as their plenipotentiaries: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Honorable Frank L!Qn_Polk, Under-Secretary of State; The Honorable Henry White, formerly Ambassador Extraordi- nary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at Rome and Paris; General Tasker H. Bliss, Military Representative of the United States on the Supreme War Council;