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 3916 Rights and privi- leges. Ownership of equip- ment. Delegation olpower, etc. Legislation. Eflective date. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. who reside with them in Ecuador shall also be exempt from payment of customs and import duties on their personal effects and equipment and supplies for their own use and from investment and deposit requirements and from costs of foreign exchange conversions on funds brought into Ecuador for their normal living expenses. CLAUSE XIII All rights and privileges which are enjoyed by governmental and official divisions or agencies of the Republic shall accrue to the Servicio. Such rights and privileges shall include, for example, free postal, tele- graph, and telephone service, special government rates-from trans- portation companies and also freedom and immunity from excise, stamp, property, income and all other taxes, as well as from consular charges and customs duties upon imports for the use of the Servicio in the cooperative education program. The Institute shall enjoy the same rights and exemptions with respect to its acts and property relat- ing to the cooperative education program. CLAUSE XIV All materials, equipment, and supplies purchased with funds of the Servicio shall become and remain the property of the Republic and shall be devoted to the program. CLAUSE XV Any rights, powers, or duties conferred by this Extension Agree- ment upon either the Minister, the Special Representative, or the Director of the Servicio, may be delegated by the recipient thereof to representatives in writing, provided that such representatives are satisfactory to the other parties. Regardless of the naming of said representatives, the Minister and the Special Representative shall have the right to refer any matter directly to one another for dis- cussion and decision. CLAUSE XVI The Executive Power of the Republic will take the necessary steps to obtain the legislation, decrees, orders or resolutions necessary to carry out the terms of this Extension Agreement. CLAUSE XVII This Extension Agreement supersedes the Agreement in all re- spects whatsoever and shall become effective as soon as diplomatic notes confirming and accepting this Extension Agreement have been exchanged between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Govern- ment of Ecuador and the Embassy of the United States of America to Ecuador, or upon the date of execution hereof in the event that diplomatic notes approving the extension of the cooperative educa- tion program as herein provided have heretofore been exchanged. IN WITNESS WVHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Extension Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives,

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