Orion Arm Union Charter - Chapter XIX

=Article 110= =Article 111= The present Charter, of which the Terran Standard, Centauran, and Ydahri texts are equally authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of Earth. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the Governments of the other signatory states.
 * 1) The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
 * 2) The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government of Earth, which shall notify all the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General of the Organization when he has been appointed.
 * 3) The present Charter shall come into force upon the deposit of ratifications by the Earth, Mars, Luna, Sivad, Waldheim, Centauri, and by a majority of the other signatory states. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the Government of the United States of America which shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory states.
 * 4) The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify it after it has come into force will become original Members of the Orion Arm Union on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifications.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the representatives of the Governments of the Orion Arm Union have signed the present Charter.

DONE at the city of Lazarus the first day of January, three thousand nine hundred and seventy-six.