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UECIPHOCAL THADE-CAXADA. 3U83 WHEREAS such modifications of existing duties and other import 1\foditlcations, etc. restrictions and such continuances of existing customs and excise treatment as are set forth and provided for in the said Agreement and the two Schedules thereunto annexed are required and appropriate to carry out the said Agreement; W'HEREAS it is provided in Article XV of the said Agreement that .11I/F, p . :J966. it shall be proclaimed by the President of the United States of America and shall be ratified by His :Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Dominion of Canada; \VHEREAS it is further provided in Article XV of the said Agreement that the provisions of Article I and of Articles IV and III, respectively, . tTlte, Pl' · 3 \1 f.1, 391i2. shall, subject to the reservations and exceptions elsewhere provided for in the Agreement, be applied by the United States of America and Canada, on and after January 1, 1936, pending ratification of the Agreement by His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Dominion of Canada, and that the entire Agreement shall come into force on the day of the exchange of the proclamation of the said Agreement by the President of the United States of America and the ratification thereof by His :Majesty, in respect of Canada; Pr,w]lIl1lnti"n. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the said Act 4S;·I(:\::~.' p. 'OK; Vol. of June 12, 1934, do hereby proclaim the said Agreement, including the said Schedules, to the end that the provisions of Article I and of Articles IV and III, respectively, thereof, may be observed and ful- filled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on and after January 1, 1936, pending ratification of the Agreement by His l\1ajesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Dominion of Canada, and that the entire Agreement and every part thereof may be so observed and fulfilled on and from the day of the exchange of the proclamation and ratification at Ottawa as pro- vided for in Article XV of the Agreement. Pursuant to the proviso in Section 350 (a) (2) of the said Tariff Act Vol. IS, 1 '. 94:1. of 1930, as amended by the said Act of June 12, 1934, I shall from time to time notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the countries with respect to which application of the duties herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTIMONY WHEI!EOF, 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 second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth. By the President: CORDELL IIULL Secretary oj Staie. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT