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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. tion or expenditure unless said cooperating country executes a written agreement that it will impose no restrictions on the use of the high- way, nor levy directly or indirectly any tax or charge for such use, by traffic or vehicles from any other country that do not apply with equal force to the like use of the highway by traffic or vehicles of the cooperating country." Your Excellency states that, in view of the intention of the Federal Works Agency of the United States of America to allot the above- mentioned appropriation of $1,000,000 for expenditure in Guatemala, the Government of the United States of America proposes a supple- mentary agreement to the agreement effected by an exchange of notes 57 Stat. 1111 . on May 19, 1943, by which the Government of Guatemala agrees to 59 Stat. 117. the proviso of the aforesaid appropriation act of May 3, 1943. [ 1] Your Excellency further states that the Government of the United States of America is prepared, if this proposal is accepted, to regard the note the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged and the reply of my Government as constituting an agreement between the two Governments which shall take effect this day, supplementing the agree- ment effected by an exchange of notes on May 19, 1943. I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government ot Guatemala accepts the proposal of your illustrious Government with the understanding that, without prejudice to the provisions established by means of the present agreement, the agreement effected by an exchange of notes on May 19, 1943, and any memorandum ef an understanding relative to the same agreement which may have been reached subsequently between the Director General of Highways representing the Government of Guatemala and the Commissioner of Public Roads in the name of the Government of the United States of America will continue in full effect. Furthermore, I am to state to Your Excellency that my Govern- ment agrees to the condition that Guatemala will impose no restric- tions on the use of the Pan American Highway, nor levy directly or indirectly any tax or charge for such use, by traffic or vehicles from any other country that do not apply with equal force to the like use of the highway by traffic or vehicles of Guatemala, but that, as a formal requirement, this proviso is subject to the approval of the Congress of Guatemala. The Government of Guatemala considers this arrangement as sup- plementary to the arrangement effected between the two Governments by an exchange of notes dated May 19, 1943, and as entering in effect this day. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurance of my highest and most distinguished consideration. E. MuJoz MEN.Y. His Excellency EDWIN J. KYLE Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, '_ _ City. - rThis should read". . . act of May 3,1945". 3926

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