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 57 STAT.] GUATEMALA-INTER-AMERICAN HIGHWAY-MAY 19, 1943 United States Government, under the provisions of the said law, in accordance with the following terms: (1) The Government of the Republic of Guatemala agrees with pleasure that engineers designated by the two Governments should express jointly, after such study as they may deem proper, what are the changes which should be made in each section of the Pan American Highway that the Government of Guatemala has built. My Govern- ment would assume the obligation to pay one third of the cost of the work, provided that the execution of the said work is accommodated to the sums determined and fixed by the budget of the Republic for each fiscal year. (2) The Government of Guatemala, bearing in mind its fiscal situa- tion and the sums allowed by the Legislative Assembly for the im- provement of the highway, will ask the cooperation of the United States Government to accomplish this improvement of the sections of the highway. (3) The Government of Guatemala accepts very gratefully the contribution of the United States consisting of double the amount allocated in the fiscal budget of the Republic of Guatemala to the improvement of the Inter-American Highway. The United States Public Roads Administration will have the right to make inspections, through delegates, of the works for improving and perfecting the highway and the exact investment of the funds allocated for that purpose. The technical intervention and the supervisory action of control of funds will be exercised by the United States Public Roads Adminis- tration through its delegates. The Government of Guatemala will be very much pleased to have the Department of State intervene in any of the negotiations which are to be carried out with the Republic of Guatemala, which is, it goes without saying, agreeable to cooperating with the purposes of law 375, in the way that has been stated, in view 5 Stil. 60 of the special circumstances of the highway which Guatemala has built at its own expense, and it will always be glad to have such nego- tiations carried out through the Department of State. I shall be very grateful if Your Excellency would inform me whether your Government would be disposed to grant its cooperation on these terms. Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the renewed assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. CARLOS SALAZAR. His Excellency BOAZ LONG, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States, City. 1113

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