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 57 STAT.] COSTA RICA-RUBBER INVESTIGATIONS-APR. 3, 1943 947 [Translation] REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS No. 737-B SAN JOSE, April 3, 1943. MR. MINISTER: I have the honor to advise Your Excellency of the receipt of your courteous note no. 420 of April 3, 1943, in which you inform me that the Government of the United States desires to enter into an agree- ment with reference to the procedures which should be followed for the sale of the products of the Rubber Experimental Station established in accord with the understanding reached with my Government by means of the notes dated April 19 and June 16, 1941, and to this end 55 Stat. 1368 . you include the pertinent supplementary stipulations, which will be considered in effect from the date of the corresponding note in which my Government accepts them. I am pleased to state to Your Excellency that in accordance with the favorable opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Government of Costa Rica expressly consents to the above-mentioned supple- mentary agreement, the terms of which will be as follows: "ARTICLE I.-In the sale of products which have been grown and are now on, or which are or may be developed or cultivated as a result of rubber investigations and demonstration plantings on, the lands owned by the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica and provided by the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica for the establishment and operation by the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America of a rubber experi- ment station, in accordance with the agreement for cooperative rubber investigations in Costa Rica, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Repub- lic of Costa Rica, effected by an exchange of notes dated April 19, 1941 and June 16, 1941, the following procedures slhll be followed with respect to such sales and with respect to accounting and disbursements. - a) Any such sale shall be made by the Secre- tary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica, and the proceeds from any such sale shall be placed in a special account with the understanding that such proceeds shall be used for the improvement and development of the rubber experiment station, the demonstration plantations, and the lands afore- said.- b) The system of accounting for farm receipts and dis- bursements will be formulated and approved by the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica and the local representatives in charge of rubber investigations for the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the United States of America.- ARTICLE II. -T his supplementary agreement shall remain in force as though it were an integral part of the aforesaid agreement effected by an exchange of notes dated April 19, 1941 and June 16, 1941.

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