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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [63 STAT. tection and maintenance of said property, including liability for damage to person or property sustained on or after March 27, 1949 as a result of dangerous or defective conditions existing on or after that date, and the Republic of the Philippines agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the United States, members of its armed forces and its civilian employees from the aforesaid responsibility, risk of loss, and liability. The United States makes no warranty of title to the property listed in Annex 1 attached hereto or of the condition of said property or of its fitness for any other purpose. "In hereby making final and formal the transfer of the military Ante, p6. reservations listed in Annex 1 attached hereto, the United States also requests that the Republic of the Philippines agree that while it is understood that the buildings and other improvements located thereon are transferred without charge against or reference to the Surplus Property Agreement signed September 11, 1946, this understanding relates only to the transfer of military reservations covered by this note. "I am authorized by my Government to state that an acknowledg- ment of the receipt of this note containing Your Excellency's assurances that the terms and conditions thereof are acceptable to Your Excellency's Government will be considered by my Govern- ment as constituting an agreement for the relinquishment to the Government of the Philippines of the use, and the transfer to that Government of such right and title to, and possession of, the United States military reservations listed in Annex 1 attached hereto, as the United States may have therein, and as evidence that such relin- quishment or transfer has been fuly accomplished. "Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration." I am happy to inform you that an agreement in the sense described in the foregoing note is acceptable to the Government of the Philip- pines; and that this Government agrees to consider the Embassy's Ante, p 280. note No. 509 of May 14, 1949, and its enclosures, together with the present reply thereto as constituting an agreement arrived at between our two Governments on the subject of relinquishment to the Govern- ment of the Philippines of the use; and the transfer to that Govern- ment of such right and title to, and possession of, the United States military reservations listed in the enclosure Annex 1, as the United States may have therein, and as evidence that such relinquishment or transfer has been fully accomplished, effective as of March 27, 1949. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. The Honorable JA THOMAS H. LOCKE.TT S, Charge d'Affaires, a.i. Embassy of the United States. 2668

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