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 55 STAr.] CANADA-NIAGARA RIVER, WATER DIVERSION Ot. 27, 1941 SENATE RESOLUTION ADVISING AND CONSENTING TO RATIFICATION In Executive Session, Senate of the United States THURSDAY, November 27, 1941 RES(LVED, (Two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of Executive G, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, comprising an arrangement between the Governments of the United States of America and Canada to permit an additional temporary diversion, for power purposes, of waters on both sides of the Niagara River above the Falls for the duration of the emergency, and subject to reconsideration by both Governments on October 1, 1942, as set forth in notes exchanged at Washington on October 27, 1941, subject to the elimination of the para- graph reading: "The United States Government proposes further that, upon the entry into effect of the agreement for the utilization of the water in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Basin signed on March 19, 1941, the foregoing arrangements will be subject to the provisions of article IX of the agreement, and that it will be open to the Commission appointed under the provisions of the agreement and carrying out the duties imposed upon it to take such action as may be necessary and as may come within the scope of the agreement with regard to diversions at Niagara." Attest: EDWIN A. HALSEY Secretary Approved FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT November 27, 1941 The Secretary of State to the Canadiarn M;ili.tcr DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON November 27, 194. SIR: I have the honor to refer to the exchange of notes between the De- partmnent of State and your Legation on October 27, 1941, regarding the temporary diversion at Niagara Falls of additional quantities of water for reasons of national defense. On November 27, 1941, the Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of this exchange of notes subject to the elimination from my note of October 27, 1941, of the paragraph reading as follows: "The United States Government proposes further that, upon the entry into effect of the agreement for the utilization of the 1383 Paragraph to be eliminated.

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