58STAT.] GUATEMALA-AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION-JULY 15, 1944 1429 Agreement between the United States of America and Guatemala respect- ing an agricultural experiment station in Guatemala. Signed at Guatemala July 15, 1944; effective July 15, 1944. And exchange of notes. July 15, 1944 [E. A. S. 422] MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING In order to promote the cultivation of cinchona in the Western Hemisphere to assure to the American nations an adequate supply of anti-malarial products, the Governments of the United States of America and of Guatemala agree to cooperate in the establishment and operation of an agricultural experiment station in Guatemala and have reached the following understanding with respect thereto: 1. The general functions of the station shall include: (a) investi- gations necessary to the establishment and maintenance of a per- manent cinchona industry in Guatemala; (b) if desirable, agronomic production investigations on other complementary tropical crops; (c) cooperation in the establishment of approved agricultural practices; (d) the propagation of planting materials; (e) cooperation with other agricultural institutions of the Western Hemisphere in the promotion of tropical agriculture through consultation and the exchange of propa- gating material, scientific information, and personnel; and (f) coopera- tion with official agencies of the Governments of the other Republics of the Western Hemisphere in the development of tropical agriculture. 2. The Government of Guatemala on its part or acting through the Cooperating Cinchona Growers, or such other non-official entity as the Guatemalan Government may elect shall provide: (a) the land necessary to conduct investigations and demonstration work, such land to be selected by the director of the station in cooperation with the appropriate governmental agency of Guatemala and to be used by the experiment station free of charge; (b) laboratory and office space available to the Government of Guatemala with the necessary utilities, for the conduct of research investigations; (c) farm imple- ments and hand tools necessary to conduct nursery and field investi- gations; (d) the services of at least one Guatemalan assistant to cooper- ate with each scientist detailed to the station by the United States Department of Agriculture; (e) the necessary office, field and labora- tory assistants, and such unskilled labor as may be essential to conduct the work of the experiment station. 3. The Government of the United States of America, through the United States Department of Agriculture, agrees to provide: (a) the services of scientists to perform the function of direction of the station, and to conduct the various production and utilization investigations; (b) scientific journals dealing with plant science published in the United States; (c) scientific equipment and apparatus not available to the Government of Guatemala but available to the Government of the United States; and (d) necessary land motor vehicles for the use of the 93650°--45 -PT . --- 32 General functions. Items to be pro- vided by Guatemalan Government. Items to be pro- vided by U. S. Oov- ernment.
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