711.428/519
The Secretary of State to the British Chargé (Lindsay)
Sir: I have your note of August 23, 1919,8 regarding the signature of the proposed Convention for the protection of the sockeye salmon fishery. The suggestion that the signature of this Convention take place on September 2, 1919, is entirely acceptable to me, and I suggest that the hour be made 11.15 in the morning.
Complying with your oral request that I forward to you a copy of the text of the proposed Convention, which I enclosed in my note of July 15, 1919, I take pleasure in enclosing a duplicate herewith.9
Referring to the conversation between you and a representative of this Department this morning, and to the oral agreement then reached as to a minor change in paragraph (c) of Section 3 of the regulations attached to the proposed Convention, I beg to say that I am having the final draft of the Treaty drawn to include the change above mentioned which consists in inserting the words underlined [italicized] in the following quotation, which appears below as it will appear in the final text:
“No license shall be granted to any person or partnership in the State of Washington unless such person or each member of such partnership shall be an American citizen, resident in said state, and no license shall be granted to any joint stock company or corporation in said state, unless the officers, directors, and the holders of a majority of the stock thereof, are American citizens, or unless it is authorized to do business in the said state; and no license shall be granted to any person, company or firm in the Province of British Columbia, unless such person is a British subject resident in the said province, or unless such company or firm is a Canadian company or firm, or is authorized by the Provincial Government to do business in the said Province of British Columbia.”
I shall be glad if you will confirm in writing the orally expressed consent of your Government to this change.
Accept [etc.]