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The Dominican Minister (Pastoriza) to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that His Excellency the President of the Dominican Republic has designated the Honorable Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, ex-President of the Dominican Republic, in the capacity of Ambassador Extraordinary on special mission to the Government of Your Excellency, in order that he may sign in the City of Washington and in the name of my Government, the new agreement which will be substituted for the Dominican-American Convention of December 27, 1924.

I take this opportunity [etc.]

Andrés Pastoriza