Whereas, a Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea, with regulations annexed, was signed at London on May 31, 1929, by the respective pleni-potentiaries of the United States of America, Germany, the Commonwealth of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain, the Irish Free State, Finland, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a copy of which is hereto attached;

Whereas, according to Article 64 of the Convention, a Government on behalf of which this Convention has not been signed may be allowed to accede thereto at any time after the Convention has come into force;

Whereas, the President of the Philippines, having seen and considered the aforesaid Convention, proposed to make declaration on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines in accordance with Article 64 of the Convention;

Whereas, the Senate of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 34 adopted on May 22, 1947, did concur in the above proposal of the President of the Philippines;

Whereas, the President of the Philippines, having secured the concurrence of the Senate of the Philippines in accordance with 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, Manuel Roxas, 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 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 at the City of Manila, this 29^th day of September in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) N. ROXAS

Acting Chief of the Executive Office