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4. Notwithstanding Article I of this Protocol : 



(a) if this Protocol has not enttered into force on or before 

 January 31, 1964, the Convention shall apply with respect to 

 pelagic research for the seventh year ; 



(b) even if this Protocol has entered into force after the begin- 

 ning of the commercial sealing season of the seventh year, Article 

 IX, paragraph 3 as amended by this Protocol shall apply with 

 respect to the said season. 



5. The original of this Protocol shall be deposited with the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States of America, which shall communicate 

 certified copies thereof of each of the Governments signatory to this 

 Protocol. 



Whereas the Senate of the United States of America by their reso- 

 lution of January 30, 1964, two-thirds of the Senators present con- 

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

 protocol ; 



Whereas the protocol was ratified by the President of the United 

 States of America on February 6, 1964, in pursuance of the aforesaid 

 advice and consent to ratification ; 



Whereas instruments of ratification were deposited with the Gov- 

 omnient of the United States of America on November 12, 1963 by 

 Canada, on February 6, 1964 by the United States of America, on 

 March 12, 1964 by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and on 

 April 10, 1964 by Japan; 



And whereas, pursuant to the provisions of Article XI of the 

 protocol, the protocol entered into force on April 10, 1964, the date 

 of the deposit of the fourth instrument of ratification with the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States of America ; 



Now, therefore, be it known that I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President' 

 cf the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public 

 the said protocol to the end that the same and eveiy article and clause 

 thereof may be observed and fulfilled in good faith 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. 



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 twenty-second day of April in 

 [seal] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sixty-four 

 and of the Independence of the United States of America the 

 one hundred eighty-eighth. 



Lyndon B, Johnson 

 By the President: 

 Dean Rusk 



Secretary of State 



