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 62 STAT.] ECUADOR-AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Jan.26,1948 3607 Apr. 16, 1948 (1) supplies and equipment for the Station, and (2) supplies, clothes, foodstuffs, and personal belongings of the United States members of the Station staff whose salaries are paid by the Government of the United States; (b) exemption from all Ecuadoran taxes based upon salaries for those ExemptionLfrom United States members of the Station staff whose salaries are paid by the Government of the United States of America; and (c) when possible, Ecuadoran students in graduate study in various fields of agriculture in colleges or universities in the United States, who will return to Ecuador to work in the agricultural development program of their Government. 6. With reference to the Tropical Agricultural Station of Ecuador, budostruction o the Government of Ecuador agrees (a) to construct or complete (1) residences complete with furnishings for the United States and Ecuadoran members of the staff, (2) houses for the Station laborers and semi-technical force, (3) a hospital, with complete furnishings, services, and equipment (it is recommended that this hospital should be taken over by some other agency of the Government of Ecuador and operated to serve the entire region), and (4) service buildings, including repair shops and adequate build- ings for storage of equipment and plant material, and (b) to provide Facilities, etc. (1) such buildings as may be needed for studies in livestock production and the housing of pilot plants for processing agricul- tural production for shipment, (2) an adequate pump for providing a plentiful water supply, (3) an electric plant adequate to satisfy the lighting and power needs of the Station, (4) recreational facilities, including tnnis courts and a football field and other facilities, and (5) a graduate medical doctor and nurse for the hospital. It is agreed that every effort shall be made by the Government of Ecuador to complete the above building program on or before De- cember 31, 1948. Funds for the above purposes shall not come from the regular operational budget of the Station, but shall be provided for separately, since these are obligations which have been assumed from the Ecuadoran Development Corporation by the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of the Treasury, by Executive Decree number 1526-a, of July 31, 1946 (Registro Oficial number 663, of August 19, 1946). An estimate of the necessary expenditures under this paragraph is attached hereto. These funds shall be assigned to Po, p.3610. the Station, which shall direct and administer the above provisions. 7. It is declared that all constructions, machinery, vehicles, labora- tories, tools, equipment, and any other properties, produce, or other materials, heretofore acquired for the use of or by reason of the opera- tion of the Station, including such property acquired as the result of contribution of the three signatories to the Memorandum of Under-

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