Denmark

FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION

Convention signed at Washington April 26, 1826; exchange of notes at
Washington April 25 and 26, 1826

Senate advice and consent to ratification May 4, 1826
Ratified by the President of the United States May 6, 1826
Ratified by Denmark August 2, 1826

Ratifications exchanged at Copenhagen August 10, 1826

Entered into force August 10, 1826; operative from April 26, 1826
Proclaimed by the President of the United States October 14, 1826
Abrogated April 15, 18561

Renewed, with exception of article 5, by convention of April 11, 1857 2
Supplemented by additional articles of July 11, 1861 3

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Modified by agreement of May 4 and September 10, 1946*

Replaced, with exception of articles 8, 9, and 10, July 30, 1961, by treaty of October 1, 1951 5

8 Stat. 340; Treaty Series 65°

GENERAL CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, BETWEEN The United States and H. M. the King of DENMARK The United States of America and His Majesty, the King of Denmark, being desirous to make firm and permanent the peace and friendship which happily prevail between the two nations, and to extend the commercial relations which subsist between their respective territories and people, have agreed to fix, in a manner clear and positive, the rules which shall in future be observed between the one and the other party, by means of a general con

1 Pursuant to notice of abrogation given by the United States Apr. 14, 1855. *TS 67, post, p. 11.

TS 68, post, p. 14.

TIAS 1572, post, p. 122.

5 12 UST 908; TIAS 4797.

* For a detailed study of this convention, see 3 Miller 239.