PROC. NO. 2695. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE


      Proc. No. 2695, July 4, 1946, 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352,
    provided:

      The United States of America hereby withdraws and surrenders all
    rights of possession, supervision, jurisdiction, control, or
    sovereignty now existing and exercised by the United States of
    America in and over the territory and people of the Philippines;
    and,

      On behalf of the United States of America, I do hereby recognize
    the independence of the Philippines as a separate and
    self-governing nation and acknowledge the authority and control
    over the same of the government instituted by the people thereof,
    under the constitution now in force.