WHEREAS, a Consular Convention between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America, designed for the purpose of regulating the reciprocal exchange of consular officers between the two countries and of defining their activities, rights, privileges, exemptions and immunities in the territories of the other, was concluded and signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the two Governments at Manila on March 14, 1947;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 30, adopted on April 11, 1947, concurred in the making of the said convention in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged at Manila, Philippines, on the 18th day of November, 1948; and

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

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, have caused the said convention, a certified copy of which 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 15th day of March, 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:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary