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 55 STAT.] DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-CUSTOMS REVENUES-SEPT. 24, 1940 and 1926, a salary not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, payable monthly. In the temporary absence, leave, or incapacity of the representative his salary will continue; provided, however, that his leave of absence may not exceed sixty (60) days with pay in each calendar year plus the number of days necessary to travel to and from his home. During the temporary absence or incapacity of the representative the Dominican Government will pay to his deputy a salary at a rate not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, payable monthly. The Dominican Government will pay a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) annually to defray the necessary ex- penditures of the representative and his deputy for transporta- tion, the operation of an office, cost of bonding, and other similar expenditures incurred in performing their official duties. Your statement of the agreement represents my understanding of the arrangement and is satisfactory to the Government of the United States of America. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest considera- tion. CORDELL HULL His Excellency Dr. RAFAEL L. TRUJILLO, Ambassador Extraordinary of the Dominican Republic on Special Mission. I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original note. CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. AND WHEREAS the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the tenth day of March one thousand nine hundred and forty-one; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said con- vention to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 1113

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