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3. Either Contracting Party may, by giving twp years' written 

 notice to the other Contracting Party, terminate this Convention at 

 the end of the initial ten-year period or at any time thereafter. 



In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the present Convention. 



Done at Washington, in duplicate, this tenth day of September, 

 1954. 



For the Government of the United States of America : 

 Walter Bedell Smith 

 Wm. C. Herrington. 



For the Government of Canada: 

 A. D. P. Heeney. 

 Stewart Bates. 



Whereas the Senate of the United States of America by their 

 Kesolution of June 1, 1955, two-thirds of the Senators present con- 

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

 convention ; 



Whereas the said convention was duly ratified by the President 

 of the United States of America on June 6, 1955, in pursuance of the 

 aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and has been duly ratified 

 on the part of Canada; 



Whereas the respective instruments of ratification of the said con- 

 vention were duly exchanged at Ottawa on October 11, 1955; 



And w^hereas it is provided in Article XIII of the said convention 

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

 of the instruments of ratification ; 



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 11, 1955, by the United States of America 

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

 persons subject to the jurisidiction 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 twentieth day of October in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred fifty-five 



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

 the one hundred eightieth. 



DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 



By the President : 



John Foster Dulles 



Secretary of State 



