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4. The Canadian Government has approved of these recommenda- 

 tions of the Commission as set forth in its letter and report of January 

 11. A vote of $1,000,000 to provide for Canada's share of the costs 

 of these works has been recommended to Parliament. The Commission 

 has also been authorized by Order in Council P. C. 5002 of June 30, 

 1944, to let contracts for the remedial works recommended. One copy 

 of Order in Council P. C. 5002, marked appendix C, is attached hereto. 



5. The regular procedure for the payment of expenses properly 

 incurred by the Commission is that such expenses are paid by the 

 Canadian Government, one-half being recoverable later by Canada 

 from the United States. This procedure was agreed to by the United 

 States by your note of December 10, 1937. [^] It is acceptable to the 

 Canadian Government that this procedure should be followed with 

 respect to expenditures incurred by the Commission for the proposed 

 remedial works. 



6. It would appear desirable that the recommendations of the Com- 

 mission as set forth in its letter and report of January 11, 1944 and 

 the arrangements proposed for implementing these recommendations 

 should be formally approved by Exchange of Notes between the two 

 Governments. 



7. If these proposals are acceptable to the Government of the United 

 States, this note and your reply thereto accepting the proposals shall 

 be regarded as placing on record the agreement of the two governments 

 concerning this matter. 



Accept, Sir, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. 



L B Pea-rson, 



The Honourable Cordell Hull, 



Becretai^ of State of the United States^ 

 Washington^ D.O. 



Charge cf Affaires. 



Appendix A 



COPY 



January 11.) 191^1^. 



Sir, 



In the Pacific Northwest a particularly valuable species of salmon, 

 known as Sockeye, was once so abundant that in 1913 it produced a 

 pack of almost a quarter of a billion one pound cans which, at present 

 prices, would be worth over forty million dollars. Now, one-eighth 

 of that amount is considered a good pack. 



The blasting of rocks during railroad construction in a narrow 

 gorge of the Fraser Kiver known as Hell's Gate Canyon, is charged 

 with causing this huge decline by obstructing passage of the fish to 

 their up-river spawning grounds. It is now believed, however, that 

 great numbers of fish were fatally retarded at this canyon even under 

 natural conditions. 



Canada and the United States created this Commission to rehabili- 

 tate this once enormous food supply of the two nations — for though 

 the spawning all takes place in Canada, United States fishermen get 



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