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 ., 7 STAT.] HONDUItAS-RUVBBER INVESTIGATIONS-JUNE 18, 28, 1943 adjacent lands suitable for successful rubber cultivation, and the number and size of such initial plantings of any improved strain shall be limited to the amount of available planting mate- rial and in consideration of the equitable demands of other cooperating countries. (b) To assign agronomists or other trained representatives of the Honduras Government, as may be required from time to time, to cooperate with representatives of the Department of Agriculture of the United States in directing and educating the cooperative growers in planting, multiplication, cultivation, thinning, tapping, preparing the rubber for market, and other essential operations necessary for securing the proper mainte- nance and productivity of the plantings. (c) To formulate necessary quarantine and other regulations designed to prevent the indiscriminate introduction into Hon- duras 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. (d) To permit the Department of Agriculture of the United States to import into, and/or export from, Honduras all plant- ing material (seeds, stumps, or budwood) of rubber-producing plants, which said Department of Agriculture of the United States may require for the investigations herein contemplated or desire to ship elsewhere, provided, however, that all such shipments, imports, or exports shall be certified by a duly quali- fied official of said Department to be free from noxious insects and contagious diseases. (e) To permit importation into Honduras free of duties or other fees all material or property of the Government of the United States which may be required for the construction, oper- ation, and maintenance of its experiment station, substations, and nurseries, and also to allow this exemption on the personal property of employees of said station, or other representatives of the United States when they enter the ports of Honduras for work covered by this cooperative agreement, provided, however, that the director of said station shall certify that such personal property of said employees is not imported for resale. (f) To prohibit the redistribution of any strains of the rubber tree furnished it by the said Department of Agriculture of the United States to cooperators, companies, or other governments, except to those agencies and governments in the Western Hemi- sphere which are willing to reciprocate by furnishing such similar material as they may have in their possession; and that this restriction slhall be passed on to any other agency or government receiving material to prevent controverting the purpose of this restriction. II. The Department of Agriculture of the United States, under the authority and appropriation of funds granted it by the Congress 1225 Assignment of agronomists, etc. Quarantine and other regulations. Imports and exports of planting material. Exemption from duties, etc. Redistribution of strains of rubber tree, restriction. Agreement on part of U. S. Department of Agriculture.

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