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be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the Convention 

 shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It 

 shall remain in force for fifteen years, and in the event of neither of 

 the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve 

 months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its 

 intention of terminating its operaton, the Convention shall continue 

 to remain in force for one year and so on from year to year. 



In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their 

 seals. 



Done at Washington this sixteenth day of August, one thousand 

 nine hundred and sixteen. 



(Seal) ROBERT LANSING. 



(Seal) CECIL SPRING-RICE. 



