4 BUBEAU OF BIOLOGICAL SUEVEY. [S. R. A.— B. K. 40. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



The High Contracting Powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their 

 respective appropriate lavc-maklng bodies, the necessary measures for insuring 

 the execution of the present Convention. 



ARTICLE IX. 



The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States 

 of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by 

 His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall 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 operation, 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. 



And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both 

 parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged 

 in the City of Washington, on the seventh day of December, one 

 thoifsand nine hundred and sixteen ; 



Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of 

 the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to 

 be made public, to the end that the same and every article and 

 clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the 

 United States and the citizens thereof. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 

 seal of the United States to be affixed. 



Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of December in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six- 



[SEAL.] teen, and of the Independence of the United States of 



America the one hundred and forty-first. 



Woodrow Wilson. 

 By the President: 



Robert Lansing, 



Secretary of State. 



