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 ARTICLE IX

It is understood that the line above described shall be accepted by Peru and Ecuador for the demarcation of the boundary between the two countries, by technical experts, on the grounds. The parties may, however, when the line is being laid out on the ground, grant such reciprocal concessions as they may consider advisable in order to adjust the aforesaid line to geographical realities. These rectifications shall be made with the collaboration of the representatives of the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Brazil, and Chile.

The Governments of Peru and Ecuador shall submit this protocol to their respective Congresses and the corresponding approval is to be obtained within a period of not more than 30 days.

In witness thereof, the plenipotentiaries mentioned above sign and seal the present protocol, in two copies, in Spanish, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at one o’clock, the twenty-ninth day of January, of the year nineteen hundred and forty-two, under the auspices of His Excellency the President of Brazil and in the presence of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, Brazil, and Chile and of the Under Secretary of State of the United States of America.

Alfredo Solf y Muro (L.S.) J. Tobar Donoso

Signed) Sumner Welles Signed) E. Ruiz Guiñazú Signed) Juan B. Rossetti Signed) Oswaldo Aranha

Signed Also By Representatives Of The United States Of America, Argentina, Brazil, And Chile

Signed At Rio De Janeiro, January 29, 1942.

Approved By The Congress Of Ecuador, February 26, 1942.

Approved By The Congress Of Peru, February 26, 1942.