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I have the honor to confirm the foregoing understanding on behalf 

 of my Government. Accordingly, your note and this reply shall con- 

 stitute an agi-eement between our two Governments, which shall enter 

 into force this day. 



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



W. W. BUTTERWOKTH 



The Honorable 

 Paul Martin, 



Secretary of State for External Affairs^ 

 Ottawa. 



And whereas the said notes provide that they shall constitute an 

 agreement between the two Governments which shall enter into force 

 on the date of the reply of the Government of the United States of 

 America ; 



Now, THEREFORE, be it kuown that I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President 

 of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public 

 the said notes to the end that the same shall be observed and fulfilled 

 with good faith on and after May 19, 1967, by the United States of 

 America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all 

 other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused 

 the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. 



Done at the city of Washington this nineteenth day of July in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sixty-seven 

 [seal] and of the Independence of the United States of America 

 the one hundred ninety-second. 



Lyndon B. Johnson 

 By the President : 

 Dean Rusk 



Secretary of State 



