60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-DOUBLE TAXATION-APR . 16 , 1945 Done at Washington, in duplicate, on the 16th day of April, 1945. FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: [SEAL] E R STETTINIUS, JR FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: [SEAL] HALIFAX. AND WHEREAS the said convention has been ratified by both Gov- ernments, and the instruments of ratification of the two Governments were exchanged at Washington on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1946; AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article X of the said convention that on the date of the exchange of ratifications the convention shall be effective as to the estates of persons dying on or after such date, and as to the estate of any person dying before such date and after the thirty-first day of December 1944, whose personal representative elects, in such manner as may be prescribed, that the provisions of the said convention shall be applied to such estate; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said convention 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 jurisdiction thereof, the said convention being deemed to have effect as provided in Article X thereof, as aforesaid. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-six and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State 1397 Exchange of ratifi- cations.
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