INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. be retained by the Institute and not deposited to the account of the Service, for the payment of salaries and other expenses of the members of the Institute's Division of health and sanitation field officers who are maintained by the Institute in Honduras. The amounts referred to would be in addition to the sums already required under the present p.62 tat., t. 3 , Basic Agreement, to be contributed and made available by the parties in the continuation of the program. - If Your Excellency agrees that the extension as proposed on the aforesaid bases is acceptable to your Government, I should appreciate receiving, as soon as possible, the expression of Your Excellency's opinion and its agreement, in order that the technical details of the extension may be determined by offi- cials of the Ministry of the Interior, Justice, Health, and Welfare and the Institute.- The Government of the United States of America will consider the present note and your note regarding the same matter as an agreement between our two Governments, which will enter into force on the date that an Agreement containing the above-mentioned technical details is signed by the Secretary of State charged with the Ministry of the Interior, Justice, Health, and Welfare and by a repre- sentative of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. - I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. - (Signed) HERBERT S. BURSLEY. - His Excellency, Doctor Silverio Lanez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tegucigalpa, D.C . - On transmitting to you the foregoing copy, I respectfully request you to advise me what may be decided in the matter, in order that I may answer the note of His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States. - With all consideration, I am, Mr. Minister, respectfully yours, (signed) SILVERIO LAfNEZ. - The Minister of the Interior, Justice, Health, and Welfare. His office." In answer, permit me to inform you, at the same time requesting that you in turn inform the American Ambassador, that the Govern- ment of Honduras accepts, in the form proposed, the extension for one year more, of the Cooperative Health and Sanitation Program, created by the Basic Agreement between the Government of Honduras and the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, dated July 8, 1942, and will contribute the sum of 500,000.00 lempiras, to be paid as follows: In or before September 1948 . . . . . . . 75,000.00 lempiras In or before February 1949 ................ 75,00.00 " Total ................ . .150,000.00 " In addition to the foregoing sum, which shall be deposited to the credit of the Inter-American Cooperative Public Health Service in a Bank, the Government agrees to amendment and extension of the Agreement of Project #55 of Honduras (S), "Functioning of the National Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Tegucigalpa, Honduras," signed on February 15, 1948, for an additional year, from July 1, 1948 to June 30, 1949, and to provide the sum of 199,640.00 lempiras, which it will deposit to the credit of the Inter-American Cooperative Public Health Service, in the following manner: 3910
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