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58 STAT.] INTER-AMERICAN-INSTITUTE OF AGR. SCIENCES-JAN. 15,1944 WHEREAS it is provided in Article XV of the said convention that A n c, p. 1190. the convention shall come into force three months after the deposit of not less than five ratifications with the Pan American Union; WHEREAS the said convention has been duly ratified by the Govern- ments of the United States of America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, and the instruments of ratification of the Governments of those countries were deposited with the Pan American Union on July 4, 1944, May 31, 1944, July 6, 1944, August 14, 1944, and August 31, 1944, respectively; AND WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforesaid provision of Article XV Effective date. of the said convention, the convention will come into force on Novem- ber 30, 1944, three months after August 31, 1944, the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification of the Government of Nicaragua; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 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 of America, and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the juris- diction thereof, on and after November 30, 1944. 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 eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State 1195