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WASHINGTON CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS
The Government of the United States undertakes to make the necessary com- munications for this purpose and to inform the Governments of the contracting Powers of the replies received. Adherence by any Power shall become effective on receipt of notice thereof by the Government of the United States.
ARTICLE IX.
The provisions of the present Treaty shall override all stipulations of treaties between China and the respective contracting Powers which are inconsistent there- with, other than stipulations according most-favoured-nation treatment.
ARTICLE X.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by the contracting Powers in accord with their respective constitutional methods and shall take effect on the date of the deposit of all the ratifications, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. The Government of the United States will transmit to the contracting Powers a certified copy of the proces verbal of the deposit of ratifications.
The present Treaty, of which the English and French texts are both authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States, and duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the other contracting Powers.
In faith whereof the above-named plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty.
Done at the City of Washington the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.
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