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63 STAT.] MEXICO-ANTHROPO LOGICAL RESEARCH Dec. 4, 1943, Apr. 19, 1944 June 21, 1949 Unidos Mexicanos considera que la presente, junto con la ya men- cionada, constituyen un acuerdo entre los dos gobiernos sobre esta materia, que se considerara en vigor desde el 1° de julio de 1948. Reitero a Vuestra Excelencia las seguridades de mi mis alta consideraci6n. Excelentisimo Sefor JAMES E. WEBB Secretario de Estado en Funciones Washington, D. C . RAFAEL DE LA COLINA Embajador, Translation EMBASSY OF MEXICO 3148 WASHINGTON, D . C ., June 21, 1949. M. SEcaETARY: I have the honor to refer to the agreement between the United Mexican States and the United States of America regarding a co- operative program for anthropological research and investigation which was effected by an exchange of notes signed at Mexico, D. F., on December 4, 1943 and April 19, 1944, and to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the United Mexican States agrees to the con- tinuance of the cooperative program of anthropological research and investigation in Mexico, which shall be carried on by the National In- stitute of Anthropology and History of the Ministry of Public Edu- cation on behalf of the Government of the United Mexican States and by the Smithsonian Institution on behalf of the Government of the United States of America, in accordance with the following prin- ciples and procedures: 1. General Provisions. The general objectives of the cooperative program of anthropological research and investigation shall be: (a) To provide university and field training for students in anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and related fields of scientific investigation; (b) To promote long-range cooperative programs of anthropo- logical field research among the indigenous peoples of Mexico, de- signed to afford opportunities for student training in field work and to secure significant basic data for an understanding of the rural peoples of the Americas; (c) To assist in coordinating the efforts of collaborating scien- tists of the United Mexican States and the United States of America in conducting long-range studies in such fields of social science as may be mutually agreed upon, and to solicit the cooperation of such scientists in field work as the need for specialized research may require; (d) To promote the development of anthropological and other social sciences in the United Mexican States by such other means and upon such other occasions as may be appropriate; 2647 Po, pp. 249, 2