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62d Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, j Document 
 
 M Session. ) 1 No. 494. 
 
 CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 
 
 LETTEE 
 
 FROM » c »- . - '■■ I 
 
 THE SECRETARY OF STATE, 
 
 WITHDRAWING 
 
 HIS ESTIMATE FOR A NEW APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENSES 
 INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION CONCERNING USE OF 
 BOUNDARY WATERS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CAN- 
 ADA AND RECOMMENDING THAT A PROVISION BE INCLUDED 
 IN THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL REAPPROPRIAT- 
 ING UNEXPENDED BALANCES FROM FORMER APPROPRIATIONS. 
 
 January 31, 1912. — Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to 
 
 be printed. 
 
 Department of State, 
 
 Washington., January 31^ 1912. 
 The Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Sir: In the estimates for this department for the fiscal year 1913 
 there was submitted an item of $75,000 for expenses of the Interna- 
 tional Joint Commission established under the treaty between the 
 United States and Great Britain concerning- the use of boundar}^ waters 
 between the United States and Canada, and other purposes, signed 
 Januar}^ 11, 1909. At the time this estimate was prepared the Cana- 
 dian section of the commission had not been appointed and the com- 
 mission was not organized. It was not possible, therefore, at that 
 time to make an estimate of what the joint expenses of the commission 
 would be or whether or not the unexpended balances of the appro- 
 priation for the commission at the end of this fiscal year would be 
 sufiicient to meet fixed charges of our section pf the commission and 
 also to meet our half of the joint expenses. Since then the commis- 
 sion has been organized and it has become manifest to the depart- 
 ment that the unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore 
 made at the end of this fiscal year will be sufiicient to meet the ex- 
 penses of the commission, including- one-half of the joint expenses 
 during the ensuing fiscal year, if the same shall be made available for 
 
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 that purpose. 1 therefore request to withdraw the estimate in ques- 
 tion and recommend that there be included in the sundry civil act, in 
 which the former approprifitions were made, a reappropriation of the 
 balances in question and that the same be made available for the 
 expenses of the commission, including our share of the joint expenses 
 for the fiscal year 1913. I have the honor to be, sir. 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 P. C. Knox. 
 
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