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2780 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS MOTHER THAN TREATIES [63 STAT. 4. The arrangement in question would stipulate that during the period of such extension the Institute will continue to pay the salaries and other expenses of all its health and sanitation field staff in Brazil and that no additional financial contribution would be required to be made by the parties to such extension agreement to or on behalf of the Servigo Especial de Saide Piblica. 5. It will also be stipulated that the unexpended and unobligated balance of all financial contributions heretofore made available by the parties pursuant to the mentioned Basic Agreement, as amended, for the cooperative health and sanitation program, and remaining at the close of June 30, 1949, would continue to remain available for such purpose during the period covered by the extension agreement. 6. I take pleasure in informing Your Excellency that the Government of the United States of 'Brazil agrees with the Government of the United States of America to the extension of the Agreement providing for the cooperative health and sanitation program in Brazil, in accord- ance with the aforementionetd terms, and will consider this note and that of Your Excellency,'datea July 22, 1949, to which I refer above, as constituting an agreement between our two Governments, which shall come into force on the date on which the appropriate extension agreement signed by the Minister'of Education and Health of Brazil and a representative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, and embodying the above-mentioned technical details, is registered with the Tribunal de Contas of Brazil. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. RAUL FERNANDES His Excellency HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, Ambassador of the United States of America.