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 2280 U.S. representative. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. As soon as Your Excellency lets me know the name of the commis- sioner of the United States on the Joint Board of the Trans-Isthmian Highway, I shall be pleased to communicate the name of the com- missioner of Panama. Accept, Excellency, the renewed expression of my highest and most distinguished consideration. NARCISO GARAY, Secretary of ForeignRelations and Communications His Excellency WILLIAM DAWSON, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Panama. - The American Ambassador (Dawson) to the PanamanianSecretary of ForeignRelations and Communications (Garay) No. 129 EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Panamd, December 20, 1939 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to refer to my note No. 80 of October 19, 1939, and to Your Excellency's esteemed note No. 2491 of October 23, both concerning the constitution of the Joint Highway Board contemplated in Article III of the Convention between Panama and the United States regarding the construction of a Trans-Isthmian Highway. In note No. 2491, Your Excellency informed me that the Govern- ment of Panama acceded with pleasure to the proposal of my Govern- ment to the effect that the Joint Board be composed of only two members. Your Excellency stated also that, as soon as I should furnish the name of the American representative on the Board, you would be glad to advise me as to the Panamanian representative. I now take pleasure in stating that on December 2, 1939, the Presi- dent of the United States signed the Commission appointing Colonel Glen E. Edgerton, U. S. A ., Engineer of Maintenance of the Panama Canal, as the American representative on the Joint Highway Board. I shall be grateful if Your Excellency will be good enough to inform me in due course regarding the Panamanian representative. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest con- sideration. WILLIAM DAWBON His Excellency Seflor Doctor Don NARCISO GARAY, Secretaryof ForeignRelations and Communications.

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