Office of the Historian

Convention between the United States and other Powers for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law with respect to Assistance and Salvage at Sea; signed at Brussels, September 23, 1910 1

1. For the report of the American delegates to the Third International Conference on Maritime Law in regard to this convention, see For. Rel. 1911, p. 14 et seq.

Signed at Brussels, September 23, 1910; ratification advised by the Senate, January 18, 1912; ratified by the President, March 14, 1912; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of Belgium, January 25, 1913; deposit of ratifications closed February 1, 1913; convention effective March 1, 1913; proclaimed, February 13, 1913.

[1707] By the President of the United States of America.

[seal.] Done at the City of Washington this thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-seventh.