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 1216 Redistribution of strains of rubber tree, restriction. Distribution of su- perior strains. Investigators and rubber specialists. (esullts of ilnvlestiga- li oll. EfTfetivke (late; ex- pirationl: rorlwal. Agreement not as- signable. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. effects of all employees of the United States Department of Agriculture who are engaged in this cooperation. The Government of Nicaragua agrees to prohibit the redistribution of any strains of rubber tree furnished it by the United States De- partment of Agriculture to cooperators, companies or other govern- ments except to those agencies and governments which are willing to reciprocate by furnishing such similar material as they may have in their possession; and this restriction shall be passed on to any other agency or government receiving material to prevent contravening the purpose of this restriction. The United States Department of Agriculture will furnish to the Government of Nicaragua free of charge at its propagating stations, stocks of superior strains of the rubber tree now in its possession, and any additional superior strains collected on surveys or bred at its experiment stations, which, after test by it, are found to be superior. Such distribution will be made at as early a date and in such quantity as may be possible with the facilities available for propagation and in view of the equitable demands or requirements of other cooperating agencies. The Department of Agriculture of the United States will supply such investigators and rubber specialists as may be necessary to aid in the establishment of nurseries and/or in the selection of suitable sites for test plantings herein contemplated. Investigators and rubber specialists will be furnished by the said Department of Agriculture to cooperate with the Government of Nicaragua in directing and educating the planters in proper methods of propagation, planting, cultivation, thinning, tapping, preparation of rubber for market and other operations essential to the proper maintenance and productivity of their plantations. It will also conduct, in cooperation with the Government of Nicaragua, field investigations on specific problems of rubber culture when necessary. The said Department of Agriculture will make available for the benefit of the rubber industry in Nicaragua the results obtained in the rubber investigations conducted by its Bureau of Plant Industry. It is mutually agreed by the cooperating parties that this agreement shall take effect on the date of this letter and shall expire on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-one, but may be renewed from year to year thereafter (not extending, however, beyond the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-three) at the option of the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America, which option shall be expressed in writing by the Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry or a duly authorized agent, at least one month before the date upon which this agreement would otherwise expire. It is mutually agreed also that this agreement shall not be assigned in whole or in part; that no member or delegate to Congress of the United States of America, or resident commissioner thereof, after his election or appointment, and either before or after he has qualified, and no officer, agent or employee of the Government of the United

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