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scientists consisting of three competent and disinterested persons, no 

 one of whom shall be a national of a Contracting Party, selected by 

 mutual agreement of all Parties for the determination of this matter. 



It is further agreed that" when a determination has been made by a 

 majority of such special committee, the Commission shall make a 

 recommendation in accordance therewith. 



The Governments of the United States of America, Canada and 

 Japan, in signing this Protocol, desire to make it clear that the pro- 

 cedure set forth herein is designed to cover a special situation. It is 

 not, therefore, to be considered a precedent for the final resolution of 

 any matters which may, in the future, come before the Commission. 



This Protocol shall become effective from the date of entry into 

 force of the said Convention. [2] 



In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed 

 this Protocol. 



Done in triplicate at Tokyo this ninth day of May, one thousand nine 

 hundred fifty-two. 



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Whereas the Senate of the United States of America, by their 

 resolution of July 4, 1952, two-thirds of the Senators present con- 

 curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said 

 convention, together with the protocol relating thereto ; 



Whereas the said convention and protocol were ratified by the 

 President of the United States of America on July 30, 1952, in pur- 

 suance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and the 

 said convention has been duly ratified on the part of Canada and 

 Japan; 



Whereas it is provided in Article XI of the said convention that 

 the convention shall enter into force on the date of the exchange of 

 ratifications, and it is provided in the said protocol that the protocol 

 shall become effective from the date of entry into force of the said 

 convention; 



Whereas the respective instruments of ratification of the said 

 convention were duly exchanged at Tokyo on June 12, 1953 ; 



And whereas, j>ursuant to the aforesaid provision of Article XI 

 of the said convention and the aforesaid provision of the said protocol, 

 the convention entered into force on June 12, 1953 and the protocol 

 became effective on that same date ; 



Now, therefore, be it known that I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 

 President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and 

 make public the said international convention for the high seas 

 fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean and the said protocol relating 

 thereto to the end that the same and each and every article and clause 

 thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith, on and after 

 June 12, 1953, 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. 



* June 12, 1953. 



