62 STAT.] NETHERLANDS-DOUBLE TAXATION-APR. 29, 1948 1795 to/be deleted therefrom and of no effect (a) all references therein to Article XIII and (b) any language which might prevent the taxation of capital gains, if any, taxable under the revenue laws of either of the two Governments for the respective years in which such gains were realized."; AND WHEREAS it is provided in Article XXVIII of the aforesaid An, p. 1769 . convention that the convention shall become effective on the first day of January in the year last preceding the year in which the exchange of instruments of ratification takes place; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Harry S. Truman, President Proclamation. of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the aforesaid convention to the end that the said convention and each and every article and clause thereof, subject to the aforesaid reserva- tions, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and from the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred forty-seven, by the Effective date. United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction 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 eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-eight [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State
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