Executive Agreement Series No. 27
841D.8561/5
The Minister for External Affairs of the Irish Free State (McGilligan) to the American Minister in the Irish Free State (Sterling)
Your Excellency: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, of Your Excellency’s Note No. 380 of the 21st September stating that your Government, after examination by the competent authorities of the load line regulations in force in this country, are willing to enter into a reciprocal Loadline Agreement with the Government of the Irish Free State.
I have accordingly the honour to inform you that the Government of the Irish Free State on the advice of the Minister for Industry and Commerce hereby concur in the terms of the agreement as set out in Your Excellency’s Note, that is to say, that pending the coming into force in the United States and in the Irish Free State of the International Load Line Convention signed in London on July 5, 1930, the competent authorities of the Governments of the United States and the Irish Free State, respectively, will recognize as equivalent the load line marks and the certificate of such marking of merchant vessels of the other country made pursuant to the regulations in force in the respective countries: provided, that the load line marks are in accordance with the load line certificates; that the bull and superstructures of the vessel certificated have not been so materially altered since the issue of the certificate as to affect the calculations on which the load line was based, and that alterations have not been made so that the—
- (1)
- Protection of Openings,
- (2)
- Guard Rails,
- (3)
- Freeing Ports,
- (4)
- Means of Access to Crews Quarters
have made the vessel manifestly unfit to proceed to sea without danger to human life.
I am to add that the Government of the Irish Free State regard the Agreement as having become effective by this exchange of Notes.
I avail myself [etc.]
For the Minister