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 1041 57 STAT.] VENEZUELA-FOODSTUFFS PRODUCTION-MAY 14, 1943 ment of the United States of America, unless the conditions stipu- lated in said clause six are fulfilled, in which case the said total contribution of the Government of the United States of America, unless the conditions stipulated in said clause six are fulfilled, in which case the said total contribution shall be one million dollars ($1,000,000). The sum of one million five hundred thirty thousand bolivares (Bs.1,530,000), also mentioned in said clause six, shall constitute the total contribution of the Government of the United States of Venezuela, unless the latter decides to prolong the dura- tion of this modus vivendi for another year and include in the General Budget of Revenue and Public Expenditures allotments to allow the expenditure of an additional one million five hundred thirty thou- sand bolivares (Bs.1,530,000), in which case its total contribution would be three million sixty thousand bolivares (Bs.3,060,000). Tenth. The salaries and other expenses of the members of the Food Production Mission in Venezuela, including travel expenses, shall be paid by the Institute of Inter-American Affairs from funds not assigned to the S.C.I.P .A. Eleventh. All construction work which is to be carried out in accordance with this modus vivendi, shall, upon termination of the latter, become the property of Venezeula. No work whatsoever shall be undertaken which will require materials or personnel indis- pensable to the prosecution of any phase of the war effort. Twelfth. The work to be undertaken by the S.C.I .P .A. in the execu- tion of the foodstuffs production plan shall be determined through mutual agreement between the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry or his representative and the Technical Director of the said Service. Thirteenth. Any contract or agreement to be made by the S.C.I .P .A. with other entities or persons for the execution of the foodstuffs production plan must be previously discussed and agreed ip1)on by the Minister of Agriculture and Animal tusbandry or his rel,)resel- tative and the Technical Director of the S.C.I .P.A. Fourteenth. The director of the Technical Institute of Immigra- tion and Colonization, with the previous approval of the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and the Technical Director of the S.C .I .P.A., shall appoint the subordinate personnel required for the full execution of the foodstuffs production plan, and likewise discharge said personnel and determine their salaries and obligations in agreement with the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and the Technical Director of the S.C.I.P .A. Fifteenth. The accounts and files of the S.C.I .P.A. may be examined at any time by the persons designated for this purpose by the Min- ister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry or the Chief of the Food Production Mission in Venezuela, to whom the S.C .I .P.A. shall make available, moreover, all of the information they may request. Sixteenth. In view of the national interest involved in the inten- sification.and development of the production of foodstuffs of pri-

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