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The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Howard)
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 408 of May 8, 1924, relating to the Convention for the preservation of the halibut fishery of the northern Pacific Ocean signed by representatives of the United States and Great Britain on March 2, 1923, and to legislation which the Government of Canada is taking steps to enact in connection with the Convention.
The President resubmitted the Convention to the Senate on December 11, 1923, for determination by that body whether it would reconsider its resolution of March 4, 1923, and advise and consent to the ratification of the Convention as signed.
I understand that it is the purpose of the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations to bring the matter up for consideration as soon as advices have been received that the legislation under consideration by the Canadian Government to amend the Northern Pacific Halibut Fishery Protection Act of 1923 has become law.
Accept [etc.]