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 2334 Acceptance of U. S. offer by Government of Honduras. "scISa". Acceptance of serv- ice by Government of Honduras. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. order to develop a specific program in agreement with my Govern- ment, acting through officials designated by it; this group will be under the immediate direction of the Chief Medical Officer of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and will work in the closest cooperation with the appropriate Honduran officials. In reply, I am happy to inform Your Excellency that my Govern- ment accepts with the greatest pleasure the offer of the American Government on the terms which Your Excellency is good enough to set forth in your above-mentioned note and awaits the arrival in the country of the group of experts offered which will take charge of developing a specific program in connection with the health and sanitation conditions of the country, in order to proceed to designate the Honduran officials who will cooperate in the said work. Expressing to the American Government, through Your Excel- lency's high intermediary, my sincerest thanks for its spontaneous offer in behalf of the sanitation of Honduras, I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration, SALVADOR AGuaBm His Excellency JOHN D. ERWIN, Envoy Extraordinaryand Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, American Legation. Contract Signed by the HonduranDirector of Public Health and a Representative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs PEDiO H. ORDOSEZ DIAz, in his capacity of Director General of Public Health of the Republic of Honduras and I. Frank Tullis, in his capacity as representative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs of the United States Government, duly authorized, have agreed to enter into the following CONTRACT: I The Institute of Inter-American Affairs of the city of Washington, D.C., United States of America, shall provide gratuitously to the Government of Honduras a service under the denomination of "Ser- vicio Cooperativo Interamericano de Salud Publica" (Interamerican Cooperative Service of Public Health) that, hereinafter, in the text of this contract shall be called "S C I S P" which will function as an integral part of the Direction General of Public Health and shall have for its essential objective the development of the activities of Public Health and the construction of sanitary works. II The Government of Honduras accepts the organization of this serv- ice in the form indicated hereinabove in the preceding article and obliges itself to make all necessary facilities to carry out said activities.

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