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Treaty between the United States and Great Britain by which the United States relinquishes extraterritorial rights in Zanzibar

Signed at Washington, February 25, 1905.

Ratification advised by the Senate, March 8, 1905.

Ratified by the President, May 12, 1905.

Ratified by Great Britain, April 3, 1905.

Ratifications exchanged at Washington, June 12, 1905.

Proclaimed, June 12, 1905.

[416] By the President of the United States of America.

[seal] Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-ninth.