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59 STAT.] HAITI-RUBBER INVESTIGATIONS-De. 29 1944 1463 Jan. 8, 1945 1463 Translation DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS E.U. No. 3923 PORT-AU-PRINCE, January8, 1945. MR. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note of December 29 last, No. 213, in which, referring to the Agreement by exchange of At P. 148 & notes, the text of which you reproduce, signed January 24, 1941, re- lating to the establishment of a regional station for experimental planting of rubber, you submit for approval by the Haitian Govern- ment the text, transcribed below, of a supplementary agreement for the purpose of defining more precisely certain procedures affecting the sale of products grown on the lands of the said station and of facili- tating the continued development of rubber investigations and plantings: [For translation of the text of Articles I and II see note no. 213 of December 29, 1944 from the American Charge d'Affaires ad interim to the Haitian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.] In reply, I have the pleasure to inform you that the Haitian Govern- ment gives its full adherence to this Supplementary Agreement. It is understood that the above-mentioned note of December 29 last, No. 213, of your Embassy and the present note of this Chancelry are con- sidered as constituting said supplementary agreement and that the latter shall be effective from today's date. I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to you, Mr. Charge d'Affaires, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. GERARD LESCOT Mr. WAINWRIGHT ABBOTT, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the United States of America, Port-au-Prince.