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1588 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. Government Railway within the parcel shall be excluded. Reference: Map of Trinidad and Tobago. Scale 1-50,000. Sheets B, C and E. (3) Beginning at road crossing northeast of Longdenville at about 409,500 links east and 366,600 links north; thence north along (but excluding) road about 2,000 links; thence east about 4,500 links; thence south about 3,000 links; thence east about 11,400 links to road; thence south along (but excluding) road about 4,500 links to road junction; thence southeast along (but excluding) trail about 3,900 links to stream line; thence southwest about 4,500 links to Ravine Sable; thence generally west along Ravine Sable to crossing of improved road; thence northwest to road junction; thence generally north along (but excluding) road to point of beginning; the entire tract containing approximately two square miles. Reference: Map of Trinidad and Tobago. Scale 1-50,000. Sheet D. (4) Beginning at point on road from Mature to Toco where Primera Pria River crosses it; thence generally northeast along (but excluding) the road to the Saliboa River; thence generally south along the bank of the Saliboa River to the shore of Saline Bay; thence along the shoreline of Saline Bay to the mouth of the Primera Pria River; thence to point of beginning; the entire tract containing approxi- mately ninety-six acres. Reference: Map of Trinidad and Tobago. Scale 1-50,000. Sheet C. 7. BRITISH GUIANA. THIS LEASE made the day of nineteen hundred and forty-one between the Colony of British Guiana of the one part and the United States of America of the other part. WHEREAS by Notes exchanged on the second day of September, nineteen hundred and forty (copies of which are appended to the Agreement hereinafter referred to) His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made, and the Government of the United States accepted, proposals for the grant to the Government of the United States, in exchange for naval and military equipment and material transferred by the United States to His Majesty's Govern- ment, of the lease of naval and air bases and facilities connected therewith, in certain localities, including British Guiana within fifty miles of Georgetown, for a period of ninety-nine years free from all rent and charges other than compensation to be mutually agreed on to be paid by the United States in order to compensate the owners of private property for the loss by expropriation or damage arising out of the establishment of the said bases and facilities: AND WHEREAS in furtherance of such proposals an Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom and the United States of America was signed on the twenty-seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-one: Now, THEREFORE, the Colony of British Guiana doth hereby lease to the United States of America, free from all rent and charges other than compensation as hereinbefore mentioned, all that property described in the Schedule hereto and delineated on the plan[s] an- nexed hereto, to hold unto the United States of America for a term