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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT Terms of reference We, Hernn Zamora Elizondo, Secretary of State in charge of the Portfolio of Agriculture and Industries, duly authorized for this act by the President of the Republic, and who will be referred to herein- "Secretary". after as the "Secretary", and Dillon S. Myer, President of the In- stitute of Inter-American Affairs, acting in representation of said organization, which is a corporate instrumentality of the government "Institute". of the United States of America, hereinafter referred to as the "In- stitute", have celebrated the following Supplemental Agreement the terms of which supplement and modify the cooperative program of agriculture which was jointly undertaken by the government of "Government". Costa Rica, hereinafter referred to as the "Government", and the Institute, pursuant to the agreement entered into by the Government "Basic Contract". and the Institute as embodied in the exchange of correspondence be- tween a representative of the Institute and the Secretary of Agriculture on October 14, and 15, 1942 respectively and which was supplemented and modified by the agreements entered into under date of October 19, 1943 and March 8, 1944 by Mariano R. Montealegre, Secretary of State in the Office of Agriculture, representing the Government, and Vance Rogers, Chief of Field Party, representing the Institute, all said agreements and correspondence hereinafter to be referred to as the "Basic Contract". CLAUSE I Modification, etc.. of Basic Agreement. Ropresentationof Institute. Instrumentality for continuance of pro- gram. 'STICA" . The parties hereto mutually agree and declare that the Basic Agreement be and hereby is supplemented and modified according to the clauses hereinafter set forth. CLAUSE II The Institute shall continue to be represented in Costa Rica by a group of its officials and technicians known as the "Field Party of the Food Supply Division of The Institute of Inter-American Affairs in Costa Rica" and such officials and technicians shall remain under the immediate direction of an Institute official known as the "Chief of Field Party". The Chief of Field Party and other members of the field staff shall be appointed in concurrence with the Secretary. The Government of Costa Rica recognizes the Institute as a corporate instrumentality of the Government of the United States of America and that the Field Party of the Food Supply Division of the Institute in Costa Rica constitutes a division or office of the Institute. CLAUSE III For the purpose of providing an instrumentality through which the cooperative program of agriculture will continue to be conducted by the representatives of the two parties to this agreement, the Govern- ment of Costa Rica shall create a special service to be known as the SERVICIO TECNICO INTERAMERICANO DE COOPERACION AGRICOLA (hereinafter referred to as "STICA") which shall operate as an entity within and subordinate to the Secretariat of Agriculture. STICA shall have the power to execute the cooperative program of agricul- 2048