E. OCEAN MAMMALS 

 1. WHALES 



a. Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, September 24, 1931* 



Concluded at Geneva September 2J!i.. 1931; signed hy the United States 

 March 31^ 1932; Ratification advised hy the Senate June 10^ 1932; 

 Ratified hy the Presid.ent June 77, 1932; Ratification deposited at 

 Geneva July 7, 1932; Proclaimed hy the President January 16, 1935; 

 Entered into force January 16, 1935. 



By the President of the United States of America 



A PKOCLAMATION 



Whereas a convention for the regulation of whaling, dated Geneva, 

 September 24, 1931, and left open for signature until March 31, 1932, 

 was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States 

 of America ; Albania ; Germany ; Belgium ; Great Britain and North- 

 ern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate 

 members of the League of Nations ; Canada ; Australia ; New Zealand ; 

 the Union of South Africa; India; Colombia; Denmark; Spain; 

 Finland ; France ; Greece ; Italy ; Mexico ; Norway ; the Netherlands, 

 including the Netherland Indies; Poland; Rumania;, Switzerland; 

 Czechoslovakia; Turkey and Yugoslavia; a true copy of which con- 

 vention in the English * * * languages is word for word as follows : 



CONVENTION FOR THE REGULATION OF WHALING 



His Majesty the King of the Albanians ; the President or the 

 German Reich ; the President of the United States of America ; 

 His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King 

 OF Great Britain. Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the 

 Seas, Emperor of India ; the President of the Republic of Colom- 

 bia ; His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland ; the Presi- 

 dent of the Government of the Spanish Republic ; the President 

 of the Republic of Finland; the President of the French Re- 

 public; THE President of the Hellenic Republic; His Majesty 

 the King of Italy ; the President of the United States of Mexico ; 



*Citation: 49 Stat. 3079 ; TS 880 ; 3 Bevans 26. 



States which are parties: Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czecho- 

 slovakia, Denmark (including Greenland), Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, 

 The, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy (with reservation), Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia. 

 Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands (extended to Surinam and 

 Curacao), New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway. Poland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, 

 Spain, Sri Lanka. Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania. Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, 

 United Kingdom (Extended to Antigua, Ascension Island, Belize, Bermuda, British Solomon 

 Islands Protectorate, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland 

 Islands and dependencies, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Grenada, Hong Kong, Mont- 

 serrat, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Helena, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Seychelles, and Turks and 

 Calces Islands), United States, Yugoslavia. 



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