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2636 60 Stat. 151 . 22 U.S.C. 1341. Ante, pp. 2632,2634. Ante. p. 2620. Proclamation by President of Philip- pines. Entry into force. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 401 of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America of April 30, 1946 entitled "Philippine Trade Act of 1946" (Public Law 371, 79th Congress), the President of the United States of America through his duly empowered Plenipotentiary entered into an agreement on July 4, 1946 with the President of the Philippines; WHEREAS on October 22, 1946 the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of the Philippines and the Vice- President and Concurrently Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Re- public of the Philippines exchanged notes making certain clarifying amendments to the said agreement; WHEREAS, by proclamation of December 17, 1946, the President of the United States of America proclaimed that the said agreement has been accepted by the Congress of the Philippines by law and that the Congress of the Philippines has enacted the legislation required as a condition precedent to the taking effect of the agreement, and proclaimed the said agreement, including the said notes, to the end that the same and every part thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America, the citizens of the United States of America, and all other persons subject to the juris- diction thereof on and after the day following the proclamation of the said agreement by the President of the Philippines as provided for in Article X of the said agreement; and WHEREAS the said agreement and the said notes were proclaimed by the President of the Philippines on January 1, 1947; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, supplementing my said proclamation of December 17, 1946, do hereby proclaim that the said agreement and the said notes entered into force on January 2, 1947, the day following January 1, 1947, the date of the proclamation of the said agreement and the said notes by the President of the Philippines. 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 January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-seven, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F BYRNES Secretary of State