2752 CONVENTION-A~IERICAN REPrBLICS. FEBRCARY 20, 1928. Signatures-Contln· Ohile: ALEJANDRO LIRA, ALEJANDRO ALVAREZ, C. SILVA VILD6SOLA, ued. MANUEL BIANcm. Certification of text. R s titlcstions ex- changed. Proc1amatlon. Brazil: RAUL FERNANDES, ! ..INDOLFO COLLOR. Argentina: LAURENTINO OLASCOAGA, FELIPE A. ESPIL~ CARLOS AL- BERTO ALooRTA. Paraguay: LISANDRO DiAz LEON, JUAN VlCE...~TE RAMIREZ. Haiti: FERNANDO DENNIS. Dominican Republic: FRACO. J . PEYNADO, TULlO M. CESTERO, , JACINTO R. DE CASTRO, ELiAS BRACHE, R . PEREZ ALFONSECA. United States of America: CHAlU.ES EVANS HUGHES, NOBLE BRAN- DON JUDAH, HENRY P. FLETCHER, OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, MORGAN J. O'BRIEN , JAMES BROWN Scarr, RAY LYMAN WILBUR, LEO S. RoWE. Ouba: ANTONIO S. DE BUSTAMANTE, ORESTES FERRARA, E . HERNAN- DEZ CARTAYA, ARiSTIDES DE AGUERO BETHENco"CRT, M . MARQUEZ STER- LING, NESTOR CARBONELL. Certified to be the English text of the Convention on Rights and 'Duties of Stutes in the Event of Civil Strife as contained in the Final Act signed at the closing session of the Sixth International Conference of American States. FRANK B KELLOGG Seoretm-y of State of tM United States of Amerioa. AND WHEREAS, the said Convention has been duly ratified on the part of the United States of America, subject to the unc1.erstanding that the provisions of Article 3 thereof shall not apply where a stat~ of belligerency has been recognized, and the instrument of ratification by the United States of America was deposited with the Pan Amer- ican Union on May 21, 1930; AND WHEREAS, the said Convention has been ratified also by the Governments of Mexico, Panama, Brazil and Nicaragua, and the instruments of ratification of the said Governments were deposited with the Pan American Union on February 6, 1929, May 21, 1929. September 3, 1929, and March 20, 1930, respectively; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, 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 the citizens thereof, sub- ject to the aforementioned understanding. IN TESTIMONY 'VHEREOF, 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 sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and [SEAL) of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. By the President: HENRY L STIMSON SeC'retary of State. HERBERT HOOVER
