2418 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. WHEREAS, such modifications of existing duties and such addi- tional import restrictions as are set forth and provided for in the said supplementary Agreement are required and appropriate to carry out the said supplementary Agreement; WHEnmAs, it is provided in Article III of the said supplementary Agreement that 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 Canada, and that it shall enter definitively into force on the day following the exchange of the Proclamation and the instrument of ratification; AND wnhmsE, it is further provided in Article III of the said supplementary Agreement that, pending the definitive coming into force of the Agreement, it shall enter provisionally into force on January 1, 1940; proclamation. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, acting under the authority 4 tat. 43
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stat. 24. i19iu.. CV. i351 of June 12, 1934, as extended by the said Joint Resolution of March 1, A13, p. 107 . 1937, do hereby proclaim the said supplementary Agreement to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof, provisionally on and after January 1, 1940, pending the definitive coming into force of the Agreement, and definitively on and from the day following the exchange of this my proclamation for the ratification of His Majesty in respect of Canada, as provided for in Article III of the said supplementary Agreement. 19 U.S . tC. 1351; PURSUANT to the proviso in Section 350 (a) (2) of the said Tariff supp. v.1 351. Act 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 coun- tries with respect to which application of the duties and other import restrictions herein proclaimed is to be suspended. IN TESTMONT 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 thirtieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SSAL] thirty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CoMDwEL HULL Secretary of State.
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