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Article V 



1. This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratifi- 

 cation exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. 



2. This Convention shall enter into force on the date of exchange 

 of ratifications and shall remain in force for a period of five years and 

 thereafter until two years from the date on which either Contracting 

 Party shall have given notice to the other of its desire to terminate it. 



3. This Convention shall, from the date of the exchange of ratifi- 

 cations, replace and terminate the Convention for the preservation of 

 the halibut fishery signed at Ottawa, January 29, 1937. 



In witness w^hereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed 

 and sealed this Convention. 



Done at Ottawa in duplicate, in the English language, this Second 

 day of March 1953. 

 For the Government of the United States of America : 



[seal] 



For the Government of Canada : 

 [seal] 



Don C. Bliss 

 William C. Herrington 



James Sinclx\ir 

 Hughes Lapointe 



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

 olution of July 27, 1953, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring 

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

 convention ; 



Whereas the said convention was ratified by the President of the 

 United States of America on August 18, 1953, in pursuance of the 

 aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and was duly ratified on 

 the part of Canada ; 



Whereas the respective instruments of ratification of the said con- 

 vention were duly exchanged at Washington on October 28, 1953 ; 



And whereas it is provided in paragraph 2 of Article Y of the said 

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

 exchange of ratifications ; 



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

 dent of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make 

 public the said convention 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 October 28, 1953 by the United States of America 

 and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other per- 

 sons subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 



In testimony w^hereof, 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 seventh day of January in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred fifty-four and 



[seal] of the Independence of the United States of America the 

 one hundred seventy-eighth. 



^DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEE 

 By the President : 



John Foster Dulles 

 Secretary of State 



