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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. the work that the above-mentioned experts have been carrying on in the country: "Due to the result eloquently and palpably obtained, the collabora- tion which Messrs. Milton J. Lindner and J. Adger Smyth have been lending the Division of Fisheries and Connected Industries is deemed not only estimable but positively useful for the efficient performance of the duties which in the matter of fisheries devolve upon the above- mentioned branch of this Department and, furthermore, to advance the fishing industry of the country technically." Accordingly, the Government of Mexico will be grateful if the Government of the United States of America will take the necessary steps to the effect that Messrs. Lindner and Smyth may resume in the country the discharge of the commission with which they have for some time been charged. MEXICO, D.F ., July 22, 1942. The American Ambassador to the Mexican Ministerfor ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No. 501 Mexico, D. F ., July 27, 1942. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to acknowledge Memorandum No. 55981 of July 22, 1942, from the Ministry for Foreign Relations, regarding the work which had been carried out by Messrs. Milton J. Lindner and J. Adger Smyth, experts of the Fish and Wild Life Service of the United States Department of the Interior. I have noted with deep pleasure and appreciation the comments which were made by the Ministry of National Marine regarding its opinion of the work carried out by these two gentlemen and the request of Your Excellency's Government that there be taken those steps necessary to obtain the continued carrying out in Mexico of the mission which had been entrusted to these two gentlemen. In assuring Your Excellency that I have every reason to believe that my Government will have particular pleasure in extending the fullest cooperation in this matter, I have the honor to inquire of Your Excellency if the Memorandum under reference may be con- sidered by my Government as a reply to the proposals of my Govern- ment for the continued operation in Mexico of the cooperative work being performed by these two gentlemen. The proposal, in the Antcp.15s. case of Mr. Lindner, was contained in my Note No. 138 of April 17, 1942, and in the enclosure thereto; the proposal in the case of Mr. Ante,p.1567. Smyth was contained in my Note No. 269 of May 22, 1942, and the enclosure thereto. If the Memorandum under reference herein is to be considered as a reply, I have the honor to inquire of Your Excellency whether Your Excellency's Government desires that it should be considered as an acceptance of the two proposals above under reference.

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