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 1376 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. which areas are to be used for the purpose of a central experiment station and for seedling nurseries, test plantings, and breeding gardens; (2) in the Guapiles district adjoining and to the north of the "Old Line" railway, that area of land known as Los Diamantes farm, consisting of 1,170 hectares (about 2,902 acres), to be used for experimental plantings and as a demonstrational rubber farm (clone propagation); and (3) in the Reventaz6n Valley near Turrialba, on the north side of the public road leading eastward from the town of Turrialba, that area of land known as the Jesus Pazos farm, consisting of approximately 2.6 hectares (about 6.5 acres) to be used as a residential site; (b) shall permit or have permitted, through proper authorization whenever necessary from other departments of the Government of Costa Rica, the importation into Costa Rica, free of duty or any fee whatsoever, all material and property of the Government of the United States of America which may be required for the construc- tion, operation, and maintenance of the afore-mentioned central experiment station. (c) shall permit the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America to import into or export from Costa Rica all ma- terials, such as seeds, stumps, or budwood, for the planting of rubber- producing plants which the Department of Agriculture may require for the investigations contemplated by this agreement or which the Department of Agriculture may desire to ship elsewhere, provided that all such imports or exports shall be certified by a duly qualified official of the Department of Agriculture to be free from noxious insects and contagious diseases; and (d) shall prohibit the redistribution of any strains of rubber trees furnished it by the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America to individuals, cooperators, companies, agencies, or govern- ments, except to agencies or governments in the Western Hemisphere which reciprocally agree to furnish similar material which they may have in their possession, upon the understanding that the prohibition provided in this paragraph shall extend to and be applied by any agency or government to which any such strains of rubber trees may be redistributed. ARTICLE II The Department of Agriculture of the United States of America, under authority granted by the Congress of the United States of America, (a) shall establish in Costa Rica a central rubber experiment sta- tion, upon the conditions specified above, and make field plantings to demonstrate practical methods of plantation rubber production; (b) shall conduct laboratory and field investigations, and make in- formation concerning the results thereof available for the benefit of the rubber-producing industry in Costa Rica and in other countries of the Western Hemisphere; (c) shall provide, out of funds available to it, any necessary lab- oratory and office facilities and housing facilities for employees on the land furnished by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Pub- lic Works and Agriculture of Costa Rica, as may be required for con- ducting the investigations contemplated by this agreement; (d) shall provide, out of funds available to it, a station superin- tendent and such other investigators and specialists in rubber culti-

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