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 2634 60 Stat. 154 . 22 U. S.C. 1348. 60 Stat. 161. 22U.S. C.§ 1341. Ante, p. 2620. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. PAUL V. MCNUTT His Excellency ELPIDIO QUIRINO, Secretaryfor Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MANILA, October 22, 1946 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note of today's date recording your Government's understanding of recent conversations held at Manila relative to the correction of certain typographical errors in the Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines concerning trade and related matters during a transitional period following the institu- tion of Philippine Independence, signed at Manila on July 4, 1946, and in the Protocol and the Annexes to that Agreement, and relative to the making of certain clarifying amendments therein. I have the honor to confirm your Excellency's statement with regard to this matter and to state that my Government is agreeable that your note and this reply signifying assent thereto shall be regarded as amending the said Agreement of July 4, 1946, and the Protocol and the Annexes thereto, and as constituting an integral part thereof. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration. ELPIDIO QUIRINO Vice-Presidentand concurrently Secretary of Foreign Affairs His Excellency PAUL V. McNuTT American Ambassador to the Philippines Manila WHEREAS section 408 of the said Philippine Trade Act of 1946 provides as follows: When the President of the United States determines that the executive agreement entered into under section 401 has been ac- cepted by the Congress of the Philippines by law and that the Con- gress of the Philippines has enacted the legislation the enactment of which is, under section 401, a condition precedent to the taking effect of the agreement, he shall so proclaim, and in his proclamation specify the effective date of the agreement.; WHEREAS Article X of the said agreement provides that it shall not take effect unless and until the Congress of the Philippines accepts it by law and, except as otherwise expressly provided in the agreement, has enacted such legislation as may be necessary to make all the

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