Treaty Series No. 631
Agreement signed at Washington, February 27, 1918; ratification advised by the Senate, March 26, 1918; ratified by the President, April 8, 1918; ratified by France, April 13, 1918; ratifications exchanged at Washington, May 15, 1918; proclaimed, May 16, 1918
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas an Agreement between the United States of America and the French Republic extending, for another period of five years, [Page 429] the duration of the Arbitration Convention concluded between them on February 10, 1908, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, the original of which Agreement, being in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows:
Agreement extending the duration of the Arbitration Convention of February 10, 1908, between the United States and the French Republic.
The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the French Republic, desiring to extend for another five years the period during which the arbitration convention concluded between them on February 10, 1908, and extended by the agreement concluded between the two Governments on February 13, 1913,1 shall remain in force, have authorized the undersigned, to wit: Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States, and J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of the French Republic to the United States, to conclude the following agreement:
Article I
The Convention of Arbitration of February 10, 1908, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the French Republic, the duration of which by Article III thereof was fixed at a period of five years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, which period, by the agreement of February 13, 1913, between the two Governments was extended for five years from February 27, 1913, is hereby extended and continued in force for the further period of five years from February 27, 1918.
Article II
The present agreement 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 the President of the French Republic, in accordance with the Constitutional laws of France, and it shall become effective upon the date of the exchange of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.
Done in duplicate in the English and French languages at Washington, this 27th day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
| [seal] | Robert Lansing |
| [seal] | Jusserand |
And whereas the said Agreement has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the fifteenth day May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Agreement to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause [Page 430] thereof may be observed and fulfilled 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.
By the President:
Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State