MAKING PUBLIC THE TREATY ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND CONSULAR PREROGATIVES BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE SPANISH STATE.

WHEREAS, a Treaty on Civil Rights and Consular
Prerogatives between the Republic of the Philippines and the Spanish State,
designed for the purpose of defining the rights, privileges, exemptions and
immunities of the nationals and consular officers of each High Contracting
Party in the territories of the Other, was concluded and signed at Manila on
the twentieth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, by the respective
Plenipotentiaries of the two Governments;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines by its
Resolution No. 54, adopted on May 20, 1948, concurred in the making of the said
Treaty on Civil Rights and Consular Prerogatives in accordance with the
Constitution of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the said Treaty has been duly ratified
on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged at
Manila, Philippines, on the twenty-second day of December, nineteen hundred and
forty-eight; and

WHEREAS, it is stipulated in the said Treaty that
it shall take effect in all its provisions immediately upon the exchange of
ratification;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Elpidio
Quirino, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Treaty, a certified
copy of which, in the English and Spanish languages, is hereto annexed, to be
made public 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 22nd day of
February, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QURINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEDORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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