MAKING PUBLIC THE DECLARATION ON THE PART OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ACCEDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL LOADLINES CONVENTION SIGNED AT LONDON ON JULY 5, 1930.

WHEREAS, a Convention designed to promote the
safety of life and property at sea by establishing uniform principles and rules
with regard to limits to which ships on international voyages may be loaded was
concluded and signed at London on July 5, 1930, by the respective
Plenipotentiaries of thirty countries, and is now in force among more than
forty countries;

WHEREAS, Article 23 of the aforesaid Convention
provides that a Government on behalf of which this Convention has not been
signed shall be allowed to accede thereto at any time after the Convention has
come into force, by means of notification in writing addressed to the Govern­ment
of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, and shall take effect three months
after its receipt;

WHEREAS, the President of the Philippines, having
seen and considered and aforesaid Convention, proposed to make declaration on
behalf of the Republic of the Philippines in accordance with Article 23 of the
Convention;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines, by its
Resolution No. 96, adopted on May 19, 1949, concurred in the above proposal of
the President of the Philippines; and

WHEREAS, the President of the Philippines, having
secured the concurrence of the Senate of the Philippines in accordance with the
constitutional procedure, made a declaration that the Republic of the
Philippines accedes to the Convention and every article thereof;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Elpidio
Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public the
declaration of the President of the Philippines 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 the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of
September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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