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Exchange of Notes (October 24, 1992 and June 17, 1993) between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America constituting an Agreement to Amend their Memorandum of Arrangements concerning the Operation of Pilotage Services on the Great Lakes [1993] CATSer 8 (17 June 1993)

E101742 - CTS 1993 No. 29

EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONSTITUTING AN AGREEMENT TO AMEND THEIR MEMORANDUM OF ARRANGEMENTS CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF PILOTAGE SERVICES ON THE GREAT LAKES

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The Secretary of State of the United States of America to the Ambassador of Canada

His Excellency Derek H. Burney,
Ambassador of Canada

Excellency:

I have the honor to refer to the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Canada Governing the Operation of Pilotage Services on the Great Lakes, with Memorandum of Arrangements, effected by exchange of notes at Ottawa August 23, 1978, and March 29, 1979, as amended.

I have the honor to propose on behalf of the Government of the United States of America that section 3 (c) of the Memorandum of Arrangements be amended to read as follows:

"c. District 3

(1) Dispatching -- by Western Great Lakes Pilots Association

(2) Pilot Boats -- by Western Great Lakes Pilots Association" and that Section 5, b, (3) of the Memorandum of Arrangements be amended to read as follows:

"(3) District 3

Western Great Lakes Pilots Association will provide all services related to furnishing pilotage in the District. It will reimburse the Authority monthly for its share of collections made during the preceding month. Western Great Lakes Pilots Association may withhold from each payment a fixed percentage, agreed to before April 1 of each year, to cover the costs of providing the services."

If this proposal is acceptable to your Government, I have the further honor to propose that this note together with your Excellency's note in reply shall constitute an agreement between our two Governments on this matter which shall enter into force on the date of your Embassy's note in reply.

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

For the Acting Secretary of State:

(Signed)

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The Ambassador of Canada to the Secretary of State of the United States of America

CANADIAN EMBASSY

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 1993

No. 109

The Honourable Warren Christopher
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Excellency,

I have the honour to refer to the undated Note of the then Acting Secretary of State addressed to my predecessor, His Excellency Derek H. Burney, and received by the Embassy on October 24, 1992, which read as follows:

(See Note from the United States of America)

I have the further honour to inform you that the above proposals are acceptable to my Government. Accordingly, the Note and this Note in reply, which is equally authentic in English and French, shall constitute an agreement between our two Governments on this matter which shall enter into force on the date of this Note.

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

John de Chastelain

Ambassador