Category:US National Archives series: Perfected Treaties, 1778 - 1945

Treaties that have gone into effect, together with closely related papers and maps. The documents accompanying an original signed bilateral treaty usually consists of the attested Senate resolution of "advise and consent" to the ratification; the duplicate U.S. instrument of ratification of the original treaty (since about 1835); the original of the certificate, protocol or proces-verbal of the exchange of ratifications; and the original proclamation of the treaty by the President. The file for a multilateral treaty is the same in substance, but the papers may vary somewhat from those accompanying a bilateral treaty. Many of the early multilateral treaty files lack one or more of the papers listed above. Some of them, however, contain other related papers, such as the documents granting a diplomatic representative "full powers" to negotiate the treaty and to exchange ratifications. Although a few treaty files contain correspondence, most of the records of negotiations are in Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State. Some treaty files also contain maps, but some of the large maps have been physically segregated. Since January 1, 1946, the perfected treaties and the Executive agreements have been kept in a consolidated series, "Treaties and Other International Acts" in this Record Group 11. Executive agreements from 1922 to 1945 are in a separate series within this Record Group also.