Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a protocol of a provisional tariff arrangement between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Washington on the twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the original of which protocol, being in the English language is, as amended by the Senate of the United States, word for word as follows:

protocol.

The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan have, through their respective plenipotentiaries, agreed upon the following stipulation in regard to Article V of the treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Japan signed this day to replace on the 17th of July, 1911, the treaty of the 22d of November, 1894:

Pending the conclusion of a treaty relating to tariff, the provisions relating to tariff in the treaty of the 22d of November, 1894, shall be maintained.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this protocol in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals.

Done at Washington the 21st day of February, in the nineteen hundred and eleventh year of the Christian era, corresponding to the 21st day of the 2d month of the 44th year of Meiji.

[seal.]	Philander C. Knox.
[seal.]	Y. Uchida.

And whereas the said protocol, as amended by the Senate of the United States, has been duly ratified on both parts and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Tokyo on the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused the said protocol to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, as amended, 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 fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-fifth.

[seal.]

Wm. H. Taft.

By the President:
P. C. Knox,
Secretary of State.