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In this connection, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the Dominican Republic proposes to pay to that representative a salary of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, payable monthly. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. RAFAEL L. TRUJILLO Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission His Excellency CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. The Secretary of State to the Ambassador Eztraordinaryof the Dominican Republic on Special Mission DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON March 10, 1941 EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of today's date, reading as follows: "I have the honor, on instructions of my Government, to refer to the notes which we exchanged at Washington on September 24, 1940 with regard to the salary of the official who is to act in the Depository Bank of the Dominican Government as representa- tive of the holders of the bonds of the external debt of 1922 and 1926. " In this connection, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the Dominican Republic proposes to pay to that representative a salary of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, payable monthly." In reply, I have the honor to state that the proposal of the Domini- can Government is agreeable to the Government of the United States, namely, that the Dominican Government will pay the official who is to act as the representative of the bonds of the external debt of 1922 and 1926 a salary of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, payable monthly. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest considera- tion. CORDELL HULL His Excellency Dr. RAFAEL L . TRUJILLO, Ambassador Extraordinary of the DominicanRepublic on Special Mission. 1124 TREATIES [55 STAT.