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54 STAT.] IRAQ-COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION-DEC. 3, 1938 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 Baghdad on the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty; AND WHEREAS the said Treaty, in accordance with Article VII thereof, shall take effect on the thirtieth day after the exchange of ratifications, that is to say, on June nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty; 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, on and after the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty. 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-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. By the President: COmDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1799 Ratifications ex- changed. Proclamation. Effective date. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 193470°-41-PT. - 36