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 PHILIPPINES-NORTH BORNEO, BOUNDARY. JANUARY 2,1930. 2211 Should your government agree to this arrangement I should be c!TarmstroBot (talk) 21:11, 11 June 2014 (UTC):r. of notes- glad to receive from you an assurance that this note will bEl considered by the United States Government as a. sufficient confirmation thereof on the part of His Britannic Majesty's Government. I have the honour to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, THE HONOURABLE, W. J. BRYAN, Secretary oj E"'lJ,e, etc., etc., etc., CECIL SPRING RICE The Secretary oj State (Bryan) to tlL6 British Ambas8ador (Spring Rice) No. 139. EXCELLENCY: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 29, 1919. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 231, of the 1st instant, in which, under instructions from your Govern- ment, you inquire whether the Government of +,he United States would be willing to enter into an arrangement with the Government of His Britannic Majesty by virtue of which fugitive offenders from the Philippine Islands or Guam to the State of North Borneo or from the State of North Borneo to the Philippine Islands or Guam shall be reciprocally surrendered for offenses specified in the existing treaties of extradition between the United States and His Britannic Majesty, so far as such offenses are punishable both by the laws of the Philippine Islands or Guam and by the laws of the State of North Borneo; and you ask that, in case the Government of the United States agrees to this arrangement, you receive from me an assurance that your note will be considered by the Government of the United States as a sufficient confirmation thereof on the part of His Britannic Majesty's Government. In reply I am happy to state that the Government of the United States agrees to the arrangement between the Government of the United States and the Govemnient of His Britannic Majesty by which it is understood that fugitive offenders from the Philippine Islands or Guam to British North Borneo and from British North Borneo to the Philippine Islands or Guam shall be reciprocally de- livered up for offenses specified in the extradition treaties between the United States and His Britannic Majesty's Government so far as such offenses are punishable both by the laws of the Philippine Islands or Guam and by the laws of British North Borneo; and ac- cepts Your Excellency'S note as a sufficient confirmation of the arrangement on the part of His Britannic Majesty's Government.