MAKING PUBLIC THE CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED AND SICK OF ARMIES IN THE FIELD, 1929

WHEREAS, a Convention for the Amelioration of the
Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field was signed at Geneva
on July 27, 1929, by the respective plenipotentiaries of forty-seven countries;

WHEREAS, Article 35 of the aforesaid Convention
provides that it shall be open for adhesions given on behalf of any country in
whose name it was not signed;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 27 adopted on February 18, 1947, concurred
in the adhesion thereto of the Republic of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally adhered to the said Convention which became effective in respect of
the Philippines on October 1, 1947;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public the
said Convention, a copy of which is hereto attached, to the end that the same
and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary

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