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 ., ., SATr.] CoSTA1ICA--RUBBER INVESTIGATIONS Apr. 19, 1941 1375 June 16. 1941 El Gobierno de Costa Rica esta de acuerdo en que, como lo sugiere la nota de Su Seforia de 19 de abril de 1941, el anterior Convenio entre en vigencia en la fecha que lleva la presente nota. Me complazco en reiterar a Vuestra Sefioria las expresiones de mi consideraci6n mas distinguida. ALBERTO ECHANDI A Su Sefioria DUDLEY G. DwYRE, Encargadode Negocios ad interim de los Estados Unidos de America. Presente. [Translation] REPUBLIC OF COSTA RIOA DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS No. 1843-B SAN JOSE, June 16, 1941. MR. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous note no. 726 of April 19, 1941 relative to the conclusion of an agreement for carrying out cooperative rubber investigations in Costa Rica. I am pleased to inform you that the views of the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works and Agriculture having been con- sulted with regard to the proposed agreement, this high official replied, by his note no. 3755 of the 9th instant, expressing his full approval of the matter. Therefore, I have pleasure in informing you that my Government Acceptance by is disposed to accept the said agreement, upon the following terms: ARTICLE I The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works and Agri- culture of Costa Rica, seeking uses for vast areas of rich undeveloped lands and abandoned banana farms on which individual growers or plantation companies can produce a profitable export crop of rubber and thereby increase the foreign trade and the income of the people of Costa Rica, (a) shall provide, without charge, to the Department of Agricul- ture of the United States of America a site for a central experiment station, lands necessary for experimental rubber plantings, and a site for residences, and in accordance with this provision shall accord the Department of Agriculture the free use of the following-described areas of land: (1) in the Reventaz6n Valley near Turrialba, on the north side of the public road leading from the town of Turrialba to the Reventaz6n River, that area of land known as the Castula Jim6nez farm, consisting of approximately 16.8 hectares (41.5 acres), and that area of land directly adjoining the Castula Jim6nez farm on the east, known as the Jose Fernandez farm, consisting of approximately 16.8 hectares (41.5 acres), both of

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