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 57 STAT.] NICARAGUA-RUBBER INVESTIGATIONS-JUNE 23, 26, 1943 Agreement of January 11, 1941 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY WASHINGTON Rubber Plant Investigations of the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction JANUARY 11, 1941. General JosE MARfA ZELAYA, Minister of Agriculture and Labor, Managua, D.N., Republic of Nicaragua. DEAR SIR: As a result of the cooperative rubber survey mutually agreed upon in my letter of December 11, 1940, ['] the following plan for extension and continuation of the work is submitted, as in the previous instance, for your consideration and approval. In this cooperative project the Government of Nicaragua agrees to consult with the United States Department of Agriculture representa- tives and to select two or three areas suitable for nurseries which shall serve as demonstration plots and as centers of distribution of Hevea planting material. The Nicaraguan Government agrees to maintain these nurseries and appoint an agronomist or other trained representative who will be responsible for: the collection of seeds from Nicaraguan sources; the establishment of seed beds in the nurseries; and the distribution of any excess seeds to interested planters. This agronomist or other qualified representative is also to cooperate with representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture in directing and educating the planters in all matters pertaining to the propagation, cultivation and preparation of Hevea rubber. The Government of Nicaragua will formulate necessary quarantine and other regulations designed to prevent the introduction into Nicaragua of rubber-propagating materials including seeds, trees and budwood from other countries, excepting such shipments as are duly certified to be free from noxious insects and contagious diseases. The Department of Agriculture of the United States of America shall be permitted to import and/or export from Nicaragua al planting material (seeds, stumps or budwood) of rubber-producing plants which said Department may require for investigations herein contemplated or desire to ship elsewhere, provided, however, that all such ship- ments, imports or exports, shall be certified by a duly qualified official of said Department. The Department of Agriculture of the United States of America shall be allowed entry into Nicaragua, free of all duties or other fees, of all property and materials needed in the proposed cooperative work, and a like exemption from duties and fees shall apply to the personal P Not printed.] 1215 Provision of nurs- eries; appointment of agronomist, etc. Quarantine and other regulations. Imports and exports of planting material. Exemption from duties, etc.

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