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shall be produced. If, however, the fugitive is merely charged with crime, a duly authenticated copy of the warrant of arrest in the country where the crime was committed shall be produced, together with the evidence of criminality mentioned in Article I hereof. ARTICLE XII. The present Treaty, written in English, shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective con- stitutional methods, and shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Monrovia as soon as possible. ARTCLE XIII. The present Treaty shall remain in force for a period of five years, and in case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice one year before the expiration of that period of its intention to terminate the Treaty, it shall continue in force until the expiration of one year from the date on which such notice of termination shall be given by either of the High Contracting Parties. In witness whereof the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at Monrovia this first day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven. LESTER A. WALTON [SEAL] C. L . SIMPSON [SEAL] hanged.t AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Monrovia, on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine; Iroclanatfon. Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty 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 of America and the citizens thereof. 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 thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HILL Secretary of State. Ratification. Duration. Signatures. c 1738 TREATIES [54 STAT.