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1324 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. services and funds for local expenditures as it may consider necessary for the efficient carrying out of the projects to be agreed upon. You may be assured, furthermore, that when the projects under- taken on a joint cooperative basis have been completed they will, as the sole property of Brazil, be considered and maintained as a per- manent part of the national program for health and sanitation. I avail myself of the opportunity to present to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. A. DE SZA COSTA The Honorable SUMNER WELLES, Acting Secretary of State of the United States of America.