119 



2. The present Convention shall remain open for signature by the 

 American Governments. The instruments of ratification shall be de- 

 posited with the Pan American Union, which shall notify their receipt 

 and the dates thereof, and the terms of any accompanying declarations 

 or reservations, to all participating Governments. 



3. The present Convention shall come into force three months after 

 the deposit of not less than five ratifications with the Pan American 

 Union. 



4. Anv ratification received after the date of the entry into force 

 of the Cfonvention, shall take effect three months after the date of its 

 deposit with the Pan American Union. 



Article XII 



1. Any Contracting Government may at any time denounce the 

 present Convention by a notification in writing addressed to the Pan 

 American Union. Such denunciation shall take effect one year after 

 the date of the receipt of the notification by the Pan American Union, 

 provided, however, that no denunciation shall take effect until the ex- 

 piration of five years from the date of the entry into force of this 

 Convention. 



2. If, as the result of simultaneous or successive denunciations, the 

 number of Contracting Governments is reduced to less than three, the 

 Convention shall cease to be in force from the date on which the last 

 of such denunciations takes effect in accordance with the provisions of 

 the preceding Paragraph. 



3. The Pan American Union shall notify all of the American Gov- 

 ernments of any denunciations and the date on which they take effect. 



4. Should the Convention cease to be in force under the provisions 

 of Paragraph 2 of this article, the Pan American Union shall notify all 

 of the American Governments, indicating the date on which this will 

 become effective. 



In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, having 

 deposited their full powers found to be in due and proper form, sign 

 this Convention at the Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., on 

 behalf of their respective Governments and affix thereto their seals 

 on the dates appearing opposite their signatures. 



Whereas it is stipulated in section 3 of article XI of the said con- 

 vention that the convention shall come into force three months after 

 the deposit of not less than five ratifications with the Pan American 

 Union; and in section 4 of the said article XI that any ratification 

 received after the date of the entry into force of the convention shall 

 take effect three months after the date of its deposit with the Pan 

 American Union; 



Whereas the said convention has been ratified on the parts of the 

 Governments of the United States of America, Guatemala, Venezuela, 

 El Salvador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, and the 

 respective instruments of ratification of the Governments of those 

 countries were deposited with the Pan American Union on days as 

 follows, by the United States of America on April 28, 1941, by Guate- 



