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 1122 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. From the conversations held on this subject, my Government has gained the impression that the Government of Your Excellency would be principally interested in the inclusion in this program of health and sanitation, work along the Pan American Highway, as well as the intensification of control and treatment of disease, and the estab- lishment or extension of those public works related therewith which may tend to improve sanitary conditions of the country. I am authorized to state that my Government, acting through the intermediary of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, if acceptable to the Government of Your Excellency, shall send a small group of technicians to Mexico for the purpose of develop- ing a specific program in full collaboration with the Government of Your Excellency, acting through the officials which it may designate for this purpose. This group would be under the immediate direction of a principal physician, to be known as Chief of the Field Party, and who would work in the closest collaboration with the Department of Public Health of Mexico. In order to carry through this collaboration to a satisfactory con- clusion, it is proposed that the Government of Mexico shall desig- nate or create an appropriate dependency within the Department of Public Health for the carrying through of the health and sanitary projects under reference, as well as for the study of the projects concerning medical preparation and sanitary engineering, upon which the said officials of the Mexican Government and the Chief of the Field Party may agree. It is understood that the Government of Mexico shall furnish the technical personnel and the materials, serv- ices, and funds which it may consider necessary. The respective Governments, or their duly authorized agencies, would give their approval for the actual undertaking of the projects in question, which would be carried through upon certification by the head of the Department of Public Health of Mexico and by the head of the Field Party already mentioned. Upon completion of the projects entered into, these shall pass to the exclusive ownership of the Government of Mexico. Accept, Excellency, the reiterated assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. G. S. MESSERSMITH His Excellency Sefior Licenciado don EZEQUIEL PADILLA, Ministerfor ForeignAffairs, Mexico, D.F.

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