Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 2.djvu/792

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1878 f) g) technical and financial assistance for agricultural colonization; betterment of the conditions of nutrition of the populations in the areas in which this Agreement is carried out. Obligations as- sumed by Brazilian Oovernment. CLAUSE THIRD For the execution of this Agreement, the Brazilian Government assumes the following obligations: 1. To contribute, through the immediate opening of a special appropriation, five thousand contos of reis. 2. To orient, in the sense of this Program the continuance of the application of the: a) five thousand contos of reis allocated for the emergency develop- ment of production throughout the Northeast; b) three thousand forty-six contos of reis of the ordinary budget of the Division for the Development of Vegetable Production during the present fiscal year, ending December 31, 1942; c) eight thousand four hundred seventy-five contos of reis of funds deposited in the Bank of Brazil, for the disposition of this Division, for the execution of the Joint Services during this fiscal year, in accordance with contracts signed between the Union and the States of the aforesaid regions, cited in the present Agreement. 3. To include in the Federal budget to be approved for the next fiscal year, from January 1st. to December 31, 1943, the sum of seven thousand seven hundred contos of reis, as well as to assure the inclusion of an appropriation of three thousand eight hundred fifty contos of reis in the budgets of the States which maintain contracts with the Union, for the execution of the joint services, for the same period, in the regions provided for in this agreement. The application of these funds will be oriented in the sense of this Agreement. 4. To contribute, in the year 1943, the resources of personnel and material provided for in the ordinary budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, destined to the development of vegetable and animal production in the regions provided for in this Agreement, a total of not less than five thousand contos of reis. 5. To deposit the funds provided for in obligations nos. 1 and 3, in the Bank of Brazil, to be applied in accordance with instructions which will be approved by the Minister of Agriculture. 6. To assure the utilization, in the execution of this plan, of all fields, instalations and equipment of the Division for the Develop- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [56 STAT. c) amplification of the resources of the Divisions for the Develop- ment of Animal and Vegetable Production, designed to estab- lish an efficient extension service, in accordance with the modern agricultural techniques followed in Brazil and in the United States; d) development of plans, technical assistance and the execution of irrigation, drainage, and soil conservation works; e) collaboration in the solution of problems of handling, storage, conservation and distribution of the food products;