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Agreement between Canada and Czechoslovakia amending the Financial Agreement signed between the two Countries March 1, 1945, as amended by an Agreement signed June 26, 1945 [1946] CATSer 4 (28 June 1946)

E101368 - CTS1946 No. 55

AGREEMENT BETWEEN CANADA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA AMENDING THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES MARCH 1, 1945, AS AMENDED BY AN AGREEMENT SIGNED JUNE 26, 1945

Agreement entered into at Ottawa, this 28th day of June, 1946, between: the Minister of Finance of Canada, hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”, of the first part, and the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic represented by its Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten­tiary to Canada, Dr. Frantisek Pavlasek, of the second part:

WHEREAS by an agreement, dated March 1, 1945, as amended by an agreement dated June 26, 1945 (hereinafter called the Principal Agreement) the Government of Canada agreed to give a credit to the Government of the Czecho­slovak Republic in an amount not exceeding Nineteen Million Dollars ($19,000,000);

WHEREAS the principal Agreement provided that the credit might be used within a period of twelve months commencing on the day of the first payment;

WHEREAS the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic has requested that the period within which the credit may be used shall be extended for an additional period of twelve months; and

WHEREAS by order in council, P.C. 2665 dated June 28, 1946, the Minister of Finance has been duly authorized to enter into an agreement with the Government of the Czechoslovak Republic extending the period within which the credit may be used for an additional period of twelve months.

NOW, THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH that the parties hereto covenant and agree with each other as follows:

1. The principal Agreement is hereby amended by striking out the words “twelve months” and “twelve-months” wherever they occur in the principal Agreement and substituting therefor “twenty-four months”.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused these presents to be signed on the day and in the year first above written.

J. L. Ilsley

THE MINISTER OF FINANCE OF CANADA

Frantisek Pavlasek

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC

Witness:

D. M. Johnson
K. M. Sakh