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 4036 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. ELPIDIO QUIRINO Vioe-President and concurrently Secretary of Foreign Affairs His Excellency PAUL V. McNurT United States Ambassador Manila The American Ambassador to the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, March14, 1947. ExCEtrXNCt : With reference to Your Excellency's note of March 14, 1947, the substantive paragraph of which reads: In the signing of the Agreement on March 14, 1947, Between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America Con- cerning Military Bases, I have the honor to state that it is the under- standing of my Government that the existing national and provincial and other rights of way of the Republic of the Philippines running through the bases covered in Annex A and Annex B of the Agree- ment, more particularly the national road running through Camp John Hay and the naval reservation at Baguio, shall continue to be used as such by the public and that this understanding shall be administratively brought about in the enforcement of said Agree- ment; Rights of way through bses. Ante, p. 40a2. I have the honor to state that without conceding the existence of any national or provincial or other rights of way of the Republic of the Philippines running through any of the bases covered in Annex A and Annex B of the Agreement and subject to such adjustments in rights of way as may be required by military necessity in accordance Ante, p. 41. with paragraph 3 of Article III, my Government concurs with the understanding above set forth. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consid- eration. PAUL V. McNrTr His Excellency ELPIDIO QuirB O, Secretary of ForeignAfairs for the Republio of the Philippines.

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